Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 19 December 2006 | No Comments »
There’s a critical moment in which I turn my brain off and stay on the sofa. Don’t know why it comes, or when, or how to change it yet.
Activating event: I spend long hours on the sofa even though I know of many other things that are theoretically more fun to do.
Irrational Belief: Don’t know [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 18 December 2006 | No Comments »
Wow. I wrote that header and suddenly craved chocolate. Funny, it’s most certainly because I have hungers for many things, not just food.
There’s been a slight shakeup in my habits. I’m doing less strength training, less Sparkpeople support, and more walking. My eating variation has increased, meaning I’m taking “risks” of eating a higher volume [...]
Posted in binging, hunger, intuitive eating on 14 December 2006 | 1 Comment »
… is learning when to stop.
Normal eaters decide to stop. Sometimes it’s an unconscious decision, but they make it nonetheless. Much of my eating life was spent in an “I need more” phase, in which there was never enough food. The irony was, of course, that there never would be enough, because food wasn’t what [...]
Posted in goals, intuitive eating on 12 December 2006 | No Comments »
You might think that all you have to do to conquer your eating issues is ONE THING. That one thing varies, depending on the issue, but I don’t think that’s sufficient.
Some of the things that people append to the sentence, “All I have to do is…” include
Diet for a period of time, then I’ll never [...]
Posted in exercise on 11 December 2006 | No Comments »
That title is certainly worth a few exclamation points, because in all my 47 years, I’ve never been able to use those words to describe me. Until Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday started early. I woke up and decided to not wait for DH to do the bakery run, but did it myself. A good half-hour’s brisk [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 9 December 2006 | No Comments »
29 Things to Make You Forget About the Tooth You Just Chipped
1.If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
2. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?
3. Why do we say something is out of whack? What’s a whack?
4. Do infants [...]
Posted in exercise on 9 December 2006 | No Comments »
I like to have an idea of how many calories I have been burning, but I was absolutely clueless. Then Sparkpeople started for me, and they report it monthly. However, I wasn’t sure they were calculating it properly for a person of my size.
For example, I walked for half an hour this morning. By all rights, [...]
Posted in weight loss and diets on 8 December 2006 | No Comments »
Biographies are wonderful insights into other people’s souls. I adore them. The best things about learning German has been the ability to understand my husband’s culture in ways I couldn’t before. Franken is such a small part of Germany anyway, and the number of books written about Franken is also quite small.
But it’s more than books. [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT on 7 December 2006 | No Comments »
As I moved away from binging, I found time to do more things. First there was a short period of mourning the loss of so much eating time, but soon I began to “get” that you can actually replace the comfort of eating with comfort of other activities. Geez. Such a tiny bit of simple [...]
Posted in weight loss and diets on 7 December 2006 | No Comments »
There’s a tightness in my stomach that I haven’t been able to articulate into anything specific. Let’s try some random thought dump to see if anything falls out.
What do I need to get off my chest today? First, it seems that the weight loss Sunday to Monday was real, and I just dumped some water. Second, [...]
