Breakfast is so important. So this is great you are revisiting it. I do best eating within the half hour of waking. So that one hour and 10 minutes might be too long for you. But you will get it worked out. Chloe

Hi all,

: I am looking forward to starting the
: What's Imbedded in the Steps class
: this Wednesday.
icing it.
: Meanwhile, something interesting has
: taken place.
: After 8 months on the program, doing
: many of the steps all together
: (1,2,3,5,6), and being steady with
: most of that, I have finally
: "settled down" enough in
: my mind to buckle down to
: breakfast

: I don't know how it happened, but I
: just decided a few days ago to let
: go and focus on breakfast. I don't
: really think it "just
: happened".........I'm sure
: that some subconscious process has
: been taking place all along, and
: that now I am ready to work on the
: 4 parts of breakfast.

: The hardest part for me is
: "within the hour". The
: other 3 parts are fine.
: What is interesting is that for me,
: breakfast starts the night before.
: If I've eaten dinner too late, I will
: not be hungry enough for BF within
: the hour. I will feel full and
: "sluggish in the gut",
: and will tend to put it off
: because my stomach is not ready.

: But if I stick to a supper of 6pm (or
: 7 at the latest - because I am
: still teaching private pupils till
: then...) then I am able to have BF
: closer to within the hour.

: It is still not quite within the
: hour.........it's more like an
: hour and ten minutes, and can even
: be longer than that. So I am still
: working on it.

: What's really nice, is that lunch and
: dinner are still the same steady
: protein-carb-veggie meals I've
: been having all along. Focusing on
: BF does not detract from the good
: things I am doing for myself at
: lunch and dinner. So I am really
: pleased

: It's really funny to see how things
: unfold during evening staff
: meetings (my staff of English
: teachers meets in the evening at
: the home of one or another of the
: teachers).
: Last week at such a meeting, as
: always, everyone brought
: something, the table was
: overflowing with a
: "light" dinner and tons
: of dessert.......everything
: home-made and esthetic and
: smelling scrumptious. They just
: could not believe how I sat in
: front of all that and simply
: sipped on my herbal tea, totally
: peaceful and content. I had eaten
: dinner at home and
: "noshed" on my tea. I
: was totally fine with that, and
: felt alert and calm all meeting
: through, even though we finished
: at 10:30 pm!

: So life continues to be steady, and I
: am thinking breakfast

: I feel ready to hear about the
: embedded things, and before
: learning about those
: "things", I'd like to
: understand what that concept of
: "embedded things"
: actually means.........that is,
: what does it translate into or how
: does it manifest itself in our
: program? Can't wait for
: Wednesday.....

: Sarit