Chronicles of a Late Bloomer

I’m not exactly sure what to do with this post, how long it may stay active, or if I will even publish it at all. For now, I’ll write in an attempt to be honest and to explore all elements of my relationship to food. But, I will type it with the bulk of the text beneath the cut.

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Day one, and the eating is easy. I have no delusions¹ about this. Day one is always easy. The good news is that I didn’t swing too far to any kind of extreme today. I went to work, at regular but unplanned intervals I got a little hungry, and then I ate. It was as simple as that. I didn’t swing to one extreme (obsessively tracking, counting, and calculating) or the other (piously bemoaning my hunger and pitying myself for having to avoid cookies).

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1. I also have no delusions about the idea that I will be able to write a detailed and illustrated entry logging what I eat each and every day for the rest of my life, but for today it is kind of fun. [↩]