See also my post on How to stop eating when you’re not hungry
Whenever you eat mindlessly or when you are not hungry, the root cause is simple: you are responding to your mind’s needs rather than your physical needs. This might be emotional eating, or habit eating, or whatever. The fact remains, it’s not what [...]
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Posted in affirmations, binging, tagged avoidance on 10 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. - Leo Buscaglia
Sunday morning, I got up and did not feel like swimming. Even the best reminders of how much I [...]
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At the beginning of February, I decided to do a couple of things:
My plan: do a stomach hunger and lower calorie diet. All foods are still allowed, I’m just going to pay attention to eating less and getting fewer calories overall. Exercise is for fitness, not weight loss. I’ll weigh in once a month and [...]
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Life’s greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life. - Lion King
Pulling food out of the trash can. Sneaking bites of frosting in the office kitchen. Hollowing out the inside of a pastry and putting it back. Eating one M&M after another until you feel like your stomach will burst. Letting the [...]
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I’m actively trying to reduce the amount I eat, and emotions are coming up that lead to eating past full, if not binging. What surprises me is how subtle it is. I don’t feel bad, I don’t feel depressed, but it’s non-trivial to stop eating when my hunger first disappears.
A quote from Louise Hay is [...]
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This year has a slightly different theme compared to last year. I’m more aggressive in eating less, and trying to lose weight while still eating intuitively. We’ll see how things go. Last year I lost a significant amount of weight, but don’t know how much, since my scale is broken and I’m in no hurry [...]
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Did you ever deny yourself a food until you simply couldn’t stand it anymore, then eat it way past full? Yep, me too.
What I’ve noticed, however, is that denied foods often disappoint, and I eat them way past full because I’m not willing to acknowledge that the denial was worth it.
You may have starved yourself [...]
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Taking good care of yourself varies depending on the situation. When you are looking for a new job, it’s good self-care to get plenty of rest and concentrate on keeping up your “interview mindset.” When your car is heading towards a wall, it’s good self-care to drop the cell phone and brake.
Yesterday I finished my [...]
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Posted in binging, work on 29 October 2007 | No Comments »
Suspension of disbelief - this is one thing I am really good at. Lars is even better. While I spent my childhood pretending my miserable world wasn’t so miserable, Lars found a way to do the same as an adult, and find his way out the other side. Sweet movie, and well worth catching while [...]
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When I recognized that diets would not solve my ED, I felt anxiety. Anxiety over everything was actually the core of my problem, because eating was the only solution I knew.
Slowly I began to learn new techniques, but the most important thought change I made was to be willing to accept even the smallest attempt [...]
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