Deflation

It will be one week tomorrow that I've been on phase 1 of the South Beach diet. I've lost 6 pounds and eaten a frig full of green things. I not only feel healthier, I actually feel energy moving through my body. Odd.

I'm excited about not being uncomfortable. I put my jeans on this morning and it did not hurt my gut to button them. I don't know how much actual fat I've lost, but I am clearly not as bloated as I have otherwise been of late. That's particularly nice since the last couple days were a bit challenging. I felt hungry and missed, or I guess I could say "craved", some of those BAD foods I have habitually stuffed myself with. Seeing and feeling results allows me to stay the course. I feel like my belly is a big balloon the diet has made a small pin prick in. The air is slowly seeping out allowing an actual shape to emerge (other than round.)

As an aside, my granddaughter just finished up a week of surf camp that I gifted her as a birthday present. She LOVE, LOVE, LOVED it! 13 year old girl in a bikini and wet suit. (This is Cali, but it's far northern Cali. The water is kill you cold up here and requires a wet suit.) Having more than our fair share of fatties in the family, I commented to granddaughter that I really admire her comfort with her body. Bikinis and wetsuits are not part of my experience. She, on the other hand is not simply a slim 13 year old girl, she is buff. Willowy but very athletic, she is also agile and fast as lightening. She plays basketball, softball, and soccer. Last year she was recruited to play football for the first time. That was going to be her one and only foray into football but she is fast and ended up recruited to play for another year. Even though she has "developed" and is a very fetching adolescent, she is impressively secure and comfortable in her body. She is aware of and takes some pride in her body, but not at all in a self-conscious (insecure) way. She relates to all her teammates from a position of equality. And she enjoys the physical challenges of her sports. All week this amazing girl surfed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and then went to football hell week practice at 5 p.m. Did I say amazing. Needless to say, she does not have a weight problem. She was wiped out by the end of the day, but each morning she slipped into her wet suit, paddled her board, jumped to her feet . . . These are things I could never even dream of. She not only does them, she enjoys them. Inspiring!