It is funny how sometimes the obvious, is sooooo obvious that it is staring you right in the face and you dont see it. It finally clicked.... I have been simply OVEREATING. My portions were too big and I grew up with the mentality of finish whats on your plate. Also I have the, eat it all today syndrome, like there may not be a tommorrow to enjoy that certain thing.

It wasnt adding fat that hurt me, I just was adding probably too much fat on top of too much food. I started looking at alot of peoples fitdays and realized that the amount of food I was eating is just too much. I GET IT.... add fat to a "very reasonable" amount of food, and you wont get hungry! DUHHH, I feel like an idiot! A Homer moment!!! The joy of this is..... yesterday I ate a more reasonable amount of food, added a little fat, and

IM DOWN A POUND TODAY!!!!!!!

(Ended up at about 1500 calories, and a pretty good fat/protein/carb ratio - something like 68/26/6) and that is even adding some berries in!!! Im going to shoot for that ratio and up my carbs a smidge (been at 20 and under for too long so adding fruit & cottage or ricotta, already added the other veggies in the carb ladder) and keep plugging on.

Thanks for all your helpful posts yesterday. I think sometimes we just dont see the forest for the trees.