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The easy diet!

First of all, let me say I'm not a fan of most diet plans. I just cant make one work for me. I stay in pretty good physical condition but my eating habits are my downfall, I guess.

However, I'm on a quest to discover the nature of an experience that happens occasionally, and maybe you can relate.

It happened today, and I want to know the reasons for it. I feel so good today, so healthy, I had a modest work-out at lunch and an absolute perfect appetite afterwards. In other words, I ate part of a tuna subway and didn't feel like anything else. Here is the key, it seemed my desire was to do the right thing, and there was no need to fight my appetite

Imagine for a moment if you always felt like doing exactly what you should be doing. You eat modestly because your physiological conditions were in perfect order. A work-out, a modest meal and you feel great and no temptation to eat more. I didn't want sweats, it was as if something beyond my ability was dictating my desires, and I loved it!

Okay, does that make sense? Have you had it happen? Its happened a number of times for me, but not enough to get me down in weight to my desired goal. I should say to me "weight" is third in my personal goals, falling below
1. Feeling good
2. Looking good (dont just think body and clothes, think of eyes/countenance)

I'd rather feel good than look good, and I'd rather look good (again, countenance) than be skinny. Case in point, I did Atkins, lost 10 lbs in a week and couldn't focus at all.

So, the real "quest" is, how do I create conditions as often as I can to get me into this "mode" where I naturally want to do the right things, feel great, and dont even desire the things that arn't good for me?

Well, in a study you record everything that happened on those days and look for patterns, right? Well, theres more but this is good. So here is what I recall from today.

1. Had a pretty good night of sleep.
2. Day before felt poor due to allergies, maybe other factors but not sure. This is important because I find often good days follow bad days (physical).
3. Had a reasonable breakfast, a very healthy fruit drink (expensive) and a bagel with cream cheese.

But to this point I believe that I've had all those conditions before often without having this kind of day. My guess is its mostly out of my control. But I still have to figure out if certain things can be done to get there, and I know some of you (if anyone is reading this

) live life in such a healthy way and this is normal for you. But I dont know, this is a discussin forum so chime in!

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