Sunday and Monday night I had a terrible case of insomnia. I have coined it Monkey Mind Insomnia. I was first introduced to the “monkey mind” while reading the book Eat, Pray, Love. When you are trying to meditate if things keep popping into your head you have a Monkey Mind. So you can imagine that Monkey Mind Insomnia is lying in bed trying to sleep but things keep popping into your head. While I do struggle with this on a regular basis, the past couple days have been horrible. But luckily I got a great nights sleep last night.

So I did hide my scale. I put it in the closet of my kids room. Since my temptations to weigh myself usually come when they are sleeping I figured that was the best place. It feels liberating to not be a slave to the scale.

Lately I have been looking into Paul McKenna’s “I Can Make You Thin”. He had a series of shows on TLC…which I only caught the snippet of one but it intrigued me so I checked out his Web site (http://www.mckenna.com/Default.aspx). I am planning to get his book/CD when it becomes available but there is a lot of information on the Web site about the Four Golden Rules. The concept is very freeing…

1. Eat when you are hungry.

2. Eat what you want.

3. Eat consciously and enjoy every mouthful.

4. When you think you are full, stop eating.

Simple, right. Almost too simple it seems. But I have been trying to incorporate these principles the past two weeks. I can tell you for sure that my stomach has shrunk…along with my appetite. Mentally I am so much happier because there are no foods that are forbidden. The bogey is how the scale is going to react. I am going to weigh in at the center tomorrow so I will let you know.