For the last few weeks, I’ve been testing myself with various trigger foods. Last week, I brought a jar of peanut butter into the house, and have been eating it in very small quantities (usually with a whole wheat English muffin in the morning). After that, I scored some great dark chocolate (individually wrapped pieces) [...]
22Mar10
Working on the Transmission
After my last Aha! moment, I haven’t made much progress. Transmission is stuck between R and N. No forward progress yet. I know that I can have some things in the house and not eat them all right now. I don’t know what things will cause a problem, but I suspect that large open bags of [...]
21Mar10
When Indeed….
Donna wrote this the other day and I’ve been saving it for a post: We have such a strange relationship with food. We know that we can eat quite large amounts of ‘good food’ (veggies, fruits etc) and we can also eat small amounts of ‘bad food’ (chocolate, fast food, wine). Instead of being content [...]
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Posted in Keeping Going, Thoughts on the Process
Tagged emotional eating, stress and eating
Tagged emotional eating, stress and eating
Time for a change in thinking. I was buying something I know I’m better off without. And buying more than one, knowing that they’d all be gone before tomorrow. That’s when it hit me. WHY DO I NEED TO EAT THEM ALL TODAY??? Ta-daaaaa! Shift in thinking. So if I buy several of them, eat [...]
17Mar10
Stress and Hunger 2
Here’s what happened yesterday: I’m going to try to update this throughout the day. Things that are stressing me: planning a workshop in a vacuum – ie don’t know how many people or what they already know need to call the bank – no reason at all that this should be stressful but it is [...]
14Mar10
As if to Prove the Point….
Yesterday I wrote: I’m going to Weight Watchers this morning – for the community as much as anything else. I don’t know what their scale will say and I’ve stopped taking the card for them to write my weight on, so it really doesn’t matter. I’ve always dreamt of a scale-free WW meeting and I’ve [...]
13Mar10
March Madness
Every year at about this time I remember that I feel low every year at about this time. And it seems – from various on-line friends – that everyone is feeling the weight of March Madness. I wonder what it is about March that makes us feel so down? Maybe it’s the “almost but not [...]
12Mar10
Hurdles
There’s good news and bad news. Bad news first: turns out that anger is a very big hurdle when it comes to emotional eating. The good news is that I don’t experience that kind of anger very often. The rest of the bad news is that I encountered and ate my way through an episode [...]
10Mar10
The New Normal revisited
Mollie commented a couple of posts back: It must be why so many people who reach goal regain — because there is no “goal.” There is only “normal.” That got me thinking again about the fact that we’ve established a new normal and it’s FAT. I remember, way back in the 70′s, when the jeans [...]
7Mar10
Bugs & Motivation
I am learning that illness makes me not really care about losing weight. Which is a drag because I had hopes of accomplishing something this week in that line – like maybe a pound off. But my coughing (barking) and sore throat make me want to eat whatever’s easiest to prepare and swallow. Last night [...]