When I was doing only the Overcoming Overeating process, I got very good at stocking up my FFFs, those Formerly Forbidden Foods. It’s a REALLY good principle, because it gives you the opportunity to stop hiding your true emotions with food cravings. If your favorite foods are always there, you can’t suppress your emotions about your job/love life/etc. by binging on Fritos. I practiced stocking up for a long time. A really long time.
OK, 8 years worth of stocking up. I got REALLY stuck.
Now that I’ve learned how to deal with my emotions, I’m ready to get the stuff out of the house that I no longer want to have there on a regular basis. It’s not that anything becomes forbidden, I just no longer need to have them at my side all the time. Here’s a partial inventory:
- Over 128 rolls of toilet paper (maybe a year’s worth)
- 7 different kinds of hard candy, and I don’t even like hard candy
- More than 6 months worth of feminine protection
- 8 servings of homemade frozen lasagna
- 3 frozen pizzas
- 8 different types of prepared cake, now frozen
- 2 kinds of ice cream
- 14 different cake/muffin/baking mixes
- 10 miscellaneous items like syrups, special sugars, etc.
- 9 different packages of cookies
- 9 packages of chips and pretzels
- 7 packages of crackers
- 22 different packages of chocolate
These items are weighing me down. Earlier they served me and made me feel very cared for. Now they are simply moving past their expiration dates (ok, TP doesn’t expire) and are very much in my way.
But I fear that binging might not end if it starts again, so I’m going to let these supplies go out rather slowly. I managed to pull 2 packages of frozen cake out this weekend, and started working through them. I’ve eaten the best of those two, and will toss the rest.
Keep the best, toss the rest. I think I’ll keep the toilet paper.
