I have moved passed all of my cravings and inappropriate hunger at this point. I no longer want to do drive-by raids on the refrigerator and I’m not finding myself sniping little bits of food randomly. I am in fact having quite the opposite problem.

Typically I eat oatmeal, a bar, my lean & green, a shake, soup and a shake. But lately I am finding I have almost no appetite and I’m really struggling to get all of my necessary meals in. As I’m reaching the end of my variety pack I’m looking at my options for products. Because my life has been super busy lately and I find I have less and less time to eat 6 times a day, I’m thinking I will order a bunch of the Ready-to-Drink Shakes so I can keep them in the fridge both at home and at my office. I realize being “too busy to eat” is an excuse of sorts, but when I am seriously buried at work the last thing that I want to do is go to the other end of the building, make a meal and come all of the way back. This way I will have my meals right at hand near my desk and won’t have to even think twice about getting them in.

I never really thought I would reach a place where eating enough was going to be a problem and I have to admit it is a much better problem to have then being unable to control myself around food. At my office there is always food around somewhere. People bring in donuts and bagels or order out for food from dozens of awesome restaurants. In the beginning it was a struggle to not eat the food laying about but these days I hardly given it a thought. Now If I can just get my meals in order, I will be set!

To help with my weight loss, I’m adding some exercise into my program, probably starting this weekend. I live in Arizona and the weather at this time of year is amazing. It makes me want to get back on my mountain bike and ride and that is precisely what I’m going to do. Last summer I was riding about 10 miles each morning and doing so at a pretty good pace. I stopped when I went on vacation in Tahoe for a week and found the desert temperature to be a bit much when I returned. I haven’t been on my bike much since, certainly not regularly. So I am going to start riding again and hopefully it won’t be too painful! I’m excited to get out and exercise and I’m hoping it makes a big impact on my weight loss program.