Posted in Austen, movies and misc, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, emotions on 27 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
I love the name Frances
I hate the color “coral”
I love the fact that in 20 years of marriage my husband has never been able to fix me. Yet he’s still here.
I love Bahlsen Ohne Gleichen wafer cookies with dark chocolate.
I love putting the package away half-finished.
I hate that my German keyboard isn’t listening to me [...]
Posted in affirmations, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, positive self-talk on 26 September 2007 | No Comments »
A hundred times a day a voice in my head has a silent message: “I expect you to do it right, always get what you want, and not burden anyone else while doing it.”
That’s a harsh voice. It’s also expecting the impossible. I don’t like to call it perfectionism, although that’s a fair label. I [...]
Posted in affirmations, exercise on 25 September 2007 | No Comments »
My moods can swing up and down. What I’ve been noticing lately is that they go down more often on days when I do not exercise or write a blog entry. There are those days when there just doesn’t seem time for anything like that, and it can show up in my eating.
At lunch today, [...]
Posted in goals, positive self-talk, tagged aquajogging, positive thinking on 23 September 2007 | No Comments »
Anybody want some goals? My semi-monthly goals have been hardly used this month. Instead I did great work on portion control and experienced new levels of satisfaction and peace with food.
Yesterday I noticed that I ate more than I’ve been eating recently, but didn’t have any particular reason to do so. Today I’m back to [...]
Posted in binging, hunger, portion control on 22 September 2007 | No Comments »
After that few days, I began to wonder if my portion sizes would stay so small. Today I notice that they are pretty much back to normal. Yesterday I ate quite normally at lunch, and when we went out to dinner, I cleaned my plate. Today has been much the same, and I am most [...]
Posted in hunger on 21 September 2007 | No Comments »
I’m hungry! Or I’m not. Have you ever noticed that you think you’re hungry, but when you eat, you are satisfied with so little that it makes you wonder if you were hungry at all?
What I’m finding out now is that hunger is very relative. Over the last few years, I cut portion sizes and [...]
Posted in portion control, positive self-talk on 18 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m experimenting with portion sizes at the moment. Right now, I’m not sure how little food satisfies me, so I waited for breakfast this morning until I knew I had to eat something. Then I ate one Ritz cracker.
That went into me like a puff of smoke. The only impact it had on my hunger [...]
Posted in affirmations on 17 September 2007 | No Comments »
Remember I can’t? About a week ago, I was suffering from an insane boss. Today I managed to have the discussion with her I needed to have. We both talked about our styles, and what was not working.
We agreed that she would work on being more clear in her statements, and I will be more direct [...]
Posted in intuitive eating, portion control on 17 September 2007 | No Comments »
Nobody likes American food around here except me. OK, well, the daughter likes lasagna and spaghetti, and DH likes steak, but no one but me likes a good ol’ mess of green beans, a roasted chicken and some bread stuffing.
But that’s what we ate on Sunday anyway. I took fresh beans, snapped them, and cooked [...]
Posted in hunger, intuitive eating on 15 September 2007 | No Comments »
To follow up to yesterday’s post, here are a number of links to other people’s hunger and fullness scales. Enjoy them, use them, learn from them, but always be true to yourself.(Quaker Oatmeal has a hunger scale? Yikes! Also, Paul McKenna’s scale is pretty.)
http://www.quakeroatmeal.com/qo_managingWeight/kids/teachHealthyEating/article.cfm?articleid=382
http://www.skyone.co.uk/mckenna/hunger_scale.htm
http://www.thedietchannel.com/Learn-to-Recognize-Your-Hunger-Cues.htm
http://www2.oprah.com/health/bob/bestlife/diet/basics/basics_scale.jhtml
http://web.mit.edu/medical/pdf/hunger_scale.pdf
http://life.familyeducation.com/nutrition-and-diet/weight/46753.html
http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/dhpw/Wellness/NutritionTarmacWaiting.doc
http://www.weightlossresource.com/library/showarticle.cfm/id/1160/
http://www.weight-loss-motivation-program.com/weight-loss-tools-hunger.html
http://weightoomuch.wordpress.com/hunger-scale/
http://myintuitivedailybread.blogspot.com/2007/04/hunger-scale.html
http://www.thecancerblog.com/2006/12/25/the-hunger-scale-avoid-eating-mindlessly/
http://intuitive-eating.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-hunger-scale.html [...]
