Week 29

Down 2.4 (44.4 lbs total)

Back to tracking the points every day and practicing some moderation. Proof that if you work the plan the plan works. I know this is an oft repeated mantra but it is a lesson that is harder to learn than "pizza tastes good" and therefore requires more attempts. So, 6.6 lbs more to reach my goal for this part of the journey (though I just hit 50 lbs lost from my highest weight a year ago, which feels like a Rubicon of sorts).

Anyway, I spent the better part of the last week reading an important book by David Kessler called The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable North American Appetite. In it he explores the rise of modern obesity and the changes in the food industry that perpetuate it. Along the way he theorizes about the changes in brain functioning that occur in some individuals when faced with an abundance of fat, sugar and salt. Well worth a read if you crave food or if you want to prevent your children from being locked in the cue-reward cycles that this food creates.