Wanting but not Craving

This is where I'm at...  I've been limiting my starches for awhile now.  It started with just being careful how many I had, and then I went further and gave up wheat after reading Wheat Belly.  I didn't really use that much wheat anyway, but I gave up using Bisquick and the infrequent sandwich thins that I'd been having.

One day I realized I wasn't craving and hungry all the time. (I may even have already said this on my blog, but I don't want to go back and check.)  Now maybe that's just my imagination, although I don't think so.  At any rate I'm going to consider it true.  

I like what I'm eating and none of it is anything I want to binge on, so I'm really happy about that.

There HAVE been a few slips along the way.  But I've managed to get back with the program immediately (this is new for me).

Because the slips have happened enough times (not often, but enough) and I am still in my smaller sizes and on program, I have finally developed the belief that I can succeed all the way to goal even if I have mistakes.  I have always known this to be true, but it's another thing to actually believe it for myself.  And now I do.  And it gives me a sense of calm to know that this means at goal, I will be able to have these things from time to time.

I don't crave the foods I have given up, and that is wonderful, because it makes me feel less anxious.  But I still WANT them.  This isn't bothering me at all...I just think it's an interesting insight.  I would still choose to have them often if I felt I could control them.  I'd love it if eventually I lost interest in those foods.