Posted in binging, emotions, portion control on 13 March 2007 | No Comments »
Monday stats:
Breakfast: low hunger, slight portion control, medium volume of food
Lunch: high hunger, excellent portion control, medium volume of food
Snack: no hunger, no portion control (just finished it without checking fullness), medium volume of food
Dinner: high hunger, portion control, high volume of food
Anger at my work situation: off the charts
By the end of my work [...]
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 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 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 binging on 13 February 2007 | No Comments »
Frill-necked lizards open their frills when frightened, in order to scare off their enemy.
Cats arch their backs and raise their fur to look bigger.
Even the Pufferfish fills up with water and expands to several times its normal size.
Me? I feel fat. I don’t get fatter anymore, thanks to the therapy that helped me stop compulsively [...]
Posted in binging on 2 February 2007 | No Comments »
It was a killer birthday cake: homemade cake, rich with sour cream, filled with a rum ganache, and frosted with a custard-style chocolate frosting.
And I wasn’t interested in eating any more. I’d had enough. A big piece on my birthday, and I threw part away. The next day I ate it for breakfast, and threw [...]
Posted in binging, emotions on 22 January 2007 | No Comments »
Veg-All® Original Mixed Vegetables
A delightful blend of Carrots, Potatoes, Celery, Sweet Peas, Green Beans, Corn, and Lima Beans in a light onion broth.
Food has been a central figure in my existence. Often I remember things by the food I was eating at the time. This stems clearly from my family because I remember them [...]
Posted in binging, hunger on 9 January 2007 | No Comments »
I decided there might be some truth to the idea that being tired makes some people hungry.
(From Sparkpeople, apparently the source of all rational diet truth) A small study found that lack of sleep might trigger individuals to eat more. Twelve young men slept for only four hours on two consecutive nights. Then hormone levels [...]
Posted in binging, hunger, intuitive eating on 14 December 2006 | 1 Comment »
… is learning when to stop.
Normal eaters decide to stop. Sometimes it’s an unconscious decision, but they make it nonetheless. Much of my eating life was spent in an “I need more” phase, in which there was never enough food. The irony was, of course, that there never would be enough, because food wasn’t what [...]
Posted in binging on 30 November 2006 | No Comments »
Reality sucks. That I know, because I spent most of my life compartmentalizing real life from my over-idealized notion of what life should be like. The last couple of years have been about dealing with that, and as a corollary, reducing my compulsion to eat. It is really true for me that my compulsive eating [...]
