The guided journey certainly seems to be helping me cope with everyday stresses. Formerly I would eat in response to stress, but often I now can recognize that stress comes from competing wishes, and I need to make my decision about those wishes, not eat to suppress and postpone the inevitable.
For my birthday, everything went right.
First, I gave myself a morning alone at the museum and library (took the day off work, too!). DH took the afternoon off, and we had a lovely gourmet lunch, followed by a movie. When my daughter got back into town that evening, we all met for dinner. A nice, polite, conversational dinner – rare for our teenager.
As to eating, I basically spread one giant birthday meal across the whole day.
For breakfast, I had cake. At lunch, I ate a steak and lobster bisque. For dinner, it was a great salad. No panicking about food, not even thinking about it very much. Didn’t even want a snack during the long film.
