Posted in weight loss and diets on 31 July 2006 | No Comments »
The business trip was 9 days, and it seems that I may have gained a kilo during that time. Let’s check the numbers, then let them go.
855 calories more a day than my body needed is the number that supports a kilo weight gain. Is this possible? My eating habits were all the cottage cheese [...]
Posted in portion control on 26 July 2006 | No Comments »
Halfway through my trip, I have eaten everything I wanted to eat mostly. It has certainly been a lot of food, and I’m sure there’s no discussion of weight gain, but the great news is that I am paying attention to hunger and fullness, and I’m able to eat smaller portions. Instead of eating the [...]
Posted in intuitive eating, positive self-talk on 21 July 2006 | No Comments »
One thing I like about non-dieting and size acceptance is I can choose to use size words without feeling the need to avoid them. Remember when you wouldn’t refer to someone’s gender or their race? It’s the same thing, only fat people have become too accustomed to avoiding fat words: enornous, gigantic, humongous, and so [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, portion control on 20 July 2006 | No Comments »
Today’s lunch was delicious. Vegetable fritter with boiled potatoes and creamed leek. I looked at the pile of food and was confident that I could never eat it all. But I ate far more than I thought I would, and began to criticize myself for it. This was on top of a whole bagel this [...]
Posted in emotions on 19 July 2006 | No Comments »
The last couple of hours have been normal life, and I’ve experienced several setbacks in my project. People have consistently not been available to work on the process improvement, which I have been interpreting as their unwillingness to do so. I’m specifically not saying they don’t want to, but I am saying they don’t prioritize [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 19 July 2006 | No Comments »
There are only 2 things I can control, and one of them I can only partially control.
The choices I make (partial control)
My response to the choices, both how I choose to feel and how I choose to act
For example, I have a meeting today that my colleague has not yet responded to. I can choose [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, emotions on 18 July 2006 | No Comments »
Nothing causes anxiety like believing I’m being rejected. A feeling of belonging is one of the most important desires I have. The littlest ideas of rejection set off paranoia in me. TIme for ABCDEF.
Activating Event: missed meeting because I was not sent the meeting room.
Irrational Belief: that they do it on purpose. They includes anyone [...]
Posted in emotions, weight loss and diets on 17 July 2006 | No Comments »
Regardless of how much I eat or don’t eat, the worry and stress doesn’t go away. Food can make the stress worse, because when I eat during a state of stress, I get stressed out about how my eating sometimes only makes me feel worse.
Work stress. Body image stress. Relationship stress. Nothing seems to be [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 17 July 2006 | No Comments »
What are my irrational beliefs surrounding my work?
I can get any of these teams to use process improvement the way I want it: identify process, baseline data, set up changes, monitor and adjust. Plan Do Check Act is apparently too much to expect.
The transition is not killing opportunity.
It makes sense to do things academically.
Gut feel [...]
Posted in exercise on 17 July 2006 | No Comments »
Weird to think that I have actually experienced a situation in which exercise made me feel better. Previously, I exercised because I “had” to, or because it was fun. But yesterday’s blue funk just was not going away. BBTs kept coming and I was quite challenged to get rid of them. The good ol’ ABCDEF [...]
