It has taken me quite some time to get back on track since my trip abroad.
Timing and food got wobbly while visiting my daughter.
After getting home, instead of things getting better as I had expected, I actually went deeper and deeper
into whites, sugar and chocolate

Then a week ago, something really interesting happened
It taught me a lot about what is deeply embedded for me in doing the food

When I returned home, I was on a 10-hour jet lag which took forever to shake off.
But when the jet lag settled, instead of making sure I kept to a good sleep schedule, I kept staying up late to watch TV.
It kept me in sleep deprivation mode, and I couldn't cope with doing the food.

Then, one night - thoroughly exhausted - I went to bed early and got up very late.
I slept about 14 hours!!

As if by magic, the very next day I forgot all about the whites and sugar and chocolate,
and just picked up my food program as if nothing had ever happened
It wasn't a conscious decision.....it just happened on automatic pilot.
It was only in the late evening, when I made DH a cup of tea with chocolate-covered cookies,
that I noticed I had *forgotten* to binge

In answer to a message I had posted long ago about sleep deprivation,
Kathleen wrote me that if I didn't get enough sleep it would CLOBBER me.
Well, clobber me it did, even after almost seven years on the program

So I've been doing squeaky-clean food for a week now, with ZERO effort!
And I've been sleeping lots
The most amazing thing was that there was no Day 4 in sight!
I kept waiting for it to pounce on me, and it never showed up.
At all.
That was strange

Well, lesson learned
Not only am I eating well now, but I also finally have the strength
to cook myself good meals that help me keep doing the food

Sarit