I read Your Last Diet fast, had to swallow all of that glorious book all at once. So now I am going to go back and read it again and savor all parts. I went to the doctor and had lost 6 pounds last month. But i was not fixated on that. I was fixated on getting through step 1. How absolutely amazing is that. I mean this whole programs makes me feel like I dug in my backyard and found a box, opened it up and found a lifetime of treasure in there, not even compared to gold but real treasure, handed to me, all mine. A way out of the insanity. I wish I could proclaim this news/treasure on the mountaintops. But my own daughters just roll their eyes when I start talking. So.....I just tell them how well I myself am doing, while they go on yet another weird diet. It is hard to see them not take advantage of the treasure. The doctor and I talked about my plan. She said to stay doing whatever I am doing because it is working. We discussed it as a life change and I realized I think for the first time in my life I am not looking at the end of a "diet." I do not feel on a diet at all. In fact I have eaten more in the past month and felt full and satisfied more than I have my whole life. So there is no end to this program. I am really just on step one of the rest of my life . I do not fear going off because it is a gentle program, common sense, nothing weird.

I am starting to think about my journal and after reading YLD, I am going to have so much fun with it. I am an artist and a writer. So I am planning to get myself a beautiful journal without lines, and a whole pack of colored pens and begin my journey. Still have to get breakfast time down. But I am hungrier in the mornings now and so seem to want to get that breakfast instead of wait.

I have been thinking about that potato. I know I am not at that step yet, but thinking about it and have tried it out a couple of evenings every now and then. So far, it is not something I would enjoy but have to stuff down. Is there anyway you can substitute brown rice for the potato. It seems easier to eat. I know I am not there yet and dont have to worry about that step but I was just wondering if any of you substitute something else and if it works as well.