Posted in binging, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, portion control on 8 March 2007 | No Comments »
Tonight was steady until about 10 p.m. Then I got a little hungry, and next thing I knew I had eaten a pile of chips. There was clearly some sort of emotion behind it, but I don’t know if it was work, my pity party from this afternoon, a grumpy teenager, visitors coming, or anxiety [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, hunger, intuitive eating on 8 March 2007 | No Comments »
Anywhere from 2-4 p.m. at work is snack time for me. Often it’s just eating to pass the time away or to give me a rest. Those can be deadly calories, too. It doesn’t take any effort to eat 200 cals before you notice.
My tricks have been to get up and take a walk, get [...]
Posted in binging, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, hunger, intuitive eating, portion control on 8 March 2007 | No Comments »
Finding other intuitive eaters who blog is hard. Over the past several days, I’ve located a number of links, and here they are. These bloggers and groups tend to follow methods that vary, but all seem to be making a great effort to bring common sense to their eating habits.
Enjoy, and feel free to tell [...]
Posted in cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, intuitive eating, weight loss and diets on 6 March 2007 | No Comments »
My buddy Karen recently sent me a wonderful email about the baggage we carry around from our past: what your parents did or didn’t do, things you missed out on, things you couldn’t escape, but most of all the things that you can’t let go of now. I’m a great believer in moving forward, but [...]
Posted in Austen, movies and misc on 3 March 2007 | No Comments »
In Germany, they have Deutschland Sucht den Superstar as their Idol program. This year’s program has a contestant, Francisca Urio, who is performance-wise beyond even the American program.
Here’s a sample of her work. (This is also my first attempt at embedding/linking video. If for some reason the link/video doesn’t work, just go to clipfish and [...]
Posted in binging, emotions, goals on 3 March 2007 | No Comments »
I went to the doctor on Friday. While talking with her, I told her about my 33 pounds lost, how the therapy had helped, yadda yadda. All in all, I am very proud of myself and very pleased with my progress.
But whenever I talk to someone about this, I always have a binge tendency. First [...]
Posted in work on 2 March 2007 | No Comments »
February sucked. No question about it. It sucked for me and it sucked for my colleague Mike.
Mike went to work for the company a couple of decades ago as an engineer. He worked very hard and became an expert in his field. The company was values-driven, and not only understood how valuable intelligent people were, [...]
