I have to admit, I completely stole the idea of writing a blog from the movie Julie and Julia.  I think there's some part of me that is hoping this will become some internet sensation and I will be selling the rights to my life to some big movie producer...or Lifetime movie.  I'll take that too.  Seriously though, I'm not telling a single person I know about this project I'm doing.  I want to see if people I don't even know would listen to something I had to say. 

Speaking of Julie and Julia, I watched this movie last night and all I wanted to do was melt a pound of butter and drink it in a mug like hot cocoa...mmm cocoa.  That works too.  I liken food cravings to the cravings I got when I quit smoking.  I can just picture myself tearing through the kitchen cupboards searching for a Hershey bar that may have been lost somewhere behind the brown rice.   I find it is very dangerous to let yourself get to the point of starving.  It's virtually impossible to tell yourself that anything other than chocolate, butter, cheese, and bacon will satisfy your hunger.  So I try to eat pretty frequently.  As a matter of fact, I feel like I eat more now than I did before.  I'm constantly nibbling on something.  I'll have apples or sunflower seeds or yogurt.  I eat just about every two hours and it has really kept those cravings at bay.  

I think one of my worst problems though is eating late at night.  I stay up pretty late.  Right now it's about 2am and I'm not really THAT hungry, but for some reason I have a really hard time going to bed without feeling completely full.  I always think "well maybe just a little sandwich before bed" or something of that sort.  From what I've read online, that's a big no-no.  It makes sense though.  All that food just sitting around in your stomach while you sleep.  It's like you're telling the food "well, I'm not going anywhere so you can stick around too." Also, I was never really a breakfast person and I noticed that when I started cutting out those late night meals, I woke up hungry for breakfast.  

That said, I'm going to stop writing about late night snacks and just go to bed.