Three Big Questions About Food/Health in These Foolish Things

1. Why am I constantly hungry? I mean, you can’t be serious, stomach. I can’t figure out a food that will keep me satiated and feeling full that is not a bread or bread-like substance. As I have been avoiding breads and bready foods lately, it just feels like I’m constantly in a state of hunger. Any ideas?

2. Related question/issue: I’ve been eating right for the most part for the better part of this year – yet I’m having so much trouble losing the weight and losing the belly pooch and the other ugly things. See, I’ve practically given up the breads, nearly given up ALL the dairy/milk/cheese and definitely cut down on the drinking. Is it possible that the very, very FEW times that I’ve splurged on alcohol and an occasional pizza slice or chicken and waffle (WEAKNESS!) brunch plate just blows my diet completely out of the water? What about the folks who swear by cheat days? How is it possible that just a couple of years ago I simply did a cut back on calories and was able to still eat/drink everything that I loved – lattes, brie and crackers, sandwiches, flour tortillas…and I was still able to lose weight by just cutting back. But now that I’m on a more healthy eating plan and watching exactly WHAT I put in my mouth, the scale doesn’t budge. I suspect it’s that I simply eat MORE of the healthy choices, therefore increasing the calorie count. But on plans like Weight Watchers, they say you can eat as many portions of vegetables that you want. What gives?

3. How do people make it look so easy? Are they really working that hard? I mean, I have a college girlfriend who has been lithe and stunningly gorgeous all her life, through having two children and in her late 40s and she’s NEVER worked out a day in her life! She has muscle tone and not an ounce of fat. And she drinks Coke every day! Does it simply come down to good genes? And then there are the people who you see constantly working out and never eating anything unhealthy and basically torturing themselves. Right? Do some people really do that and not have any kind of weakness for unhealthy living? And as I’ve chosen to kind of hang out in the middle ground of these two extremes, I’m just not satisfied with my health/looks/regimen. Is there such thing as a happy medium? I guess, the answer to that is simply being OK with where I am with it all, right?

Just checking.
xox,
GS