March 15 Emotional Eating Daily Accountability

[elphie]

WELCOME ALL!

Our creed is simple: No Judgment, just love, support and understanding. Through mutual SUPPORT and understanding as a TEAM, we'll experience a HEALTHIER LIFE together!!


ACCOUNTABILITY to ourselves and our teammates will help each of us to acquire a healthy lifestyle. Lending SUPPORT to others will help us strengthen ourselves.

We all share such precious life stories and maybe for the first time we found a place where we can be HONEST with our feelings and how we act out with food. For most of us it is EMOTIONAL EATING that gets us every time. It has many names; COMPULSIVE EATING, RESTRICTING, BINGEING, OUT OF CONTROL EATING, NUMBING, SELF-MEDICATING, whatever you call it we struggle with food and can't figure out why it is so hard!!

Some of us here are dealing with eating disorder (ED) issues but we all find the accountability to others and ourselves a much-needed resource!!!... COMMUNICATION with each other on a regular basis will keep us strong!

Did I eat mindfully?

Did I take care of and nurture my body?

Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk?

Did I use my tools of recovery? These may include meal plans, water minimums, journaling, etc.- Whatever works for YOU.

Did I share my experience with food for the day somewhere I feel safe and nurtured? This may be here, in this forum, with a therapist, a close friend, a group such as OA, etc.- Again, whatever works for YOU.

Did I select a word, phrase, and/or quote for the day?

[elphie]

Good morning all!

Welcome Dobby!

GG- it is so easy to go into that obsessive mode isn't it. I posted about the hyperconciousness necessary for relearning to eat intuitively in the IE thread... it so closely feels like my old diet obsessiveness but there are some subtle differences that I can use to check myself to see if I'm making progress or slipping back into old ways. Congrats on finding exercise that helps you feel great after!

Did I eat mindfully?

One of my better days, I chose foods based on what really sounded good to me at the moment and remembered to put my fork down between bites at every meal. For lunch I didn't really enjoy the taste of the food in front of me, something that when I sailed through a meal unconciously I really thought I liked. I did go ahead and eat it because I was really hungry and we didn't have anything else to eat that wouldn't require an extensive prep that would have left me starving by the time it was finished. It was a choice that I made to sacrifice flavor for time and I did well with that decision. I am feeling stronger every day and more confindent in my ability to make my own choices concerncing food.

Did I take care of and nurture my body?

I walked, it was a glorious day and felt great. I am really starting to look forward to these walks. They are not heavy duty, pushing myself to the limit power walks that I used to do when I was obsessed with losing weight. I dreaded those walks and quickly lost motivation to continue them. Now my daily walks (weather permitting) are one of the best parts of my day. I can talk during the walk, smell the fresh air, enjoy the beauty of my surroundings, and still work up a little bit of a sweat. I won't be entering a marathon any time soon but I also won't be giving up on these walks- they are too enjoyable and make me feel great in my own skin.

Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk?

I had a good day with this as well. I had another dream, this one better than the potato chip dream though. In this one I was getting ready to go to an event and some people whom I respect greatly were (for some unknown dream logic reason, lol) also getting ready at my house. In my dream I was wearing a black pencil skirt and a black bra that dips in the back for a backless top. I had curves in the dream but they were beautiful and I felt good about them (this wasn't really the current state of my body but it was a body I would have still found unacceptable not so long ago). In this dream I was completely confident getting dressed in front of these women and I had only a moment of self conciousness about my shape, I then looked in the mirror and realized that I looked great. This dream also left me with some feelings but they were positive and encouraging. It has brought me into this day believing that I am on the right path with IE.

Did I use my tools of recovery? These may include meal plans, water minimums, journaling, etc.- Whatever works for YOU.

yes, putting my fork down between meals, listening to what I really want at the time of hunger

Did I share my experience with food for the day somewhere I feel safe and nurtured? This may be here, in this forum, with a therapist, a close friend, a group such as OA, etc.- Again, whatever works for YOU.

here

Did I select a word, phrase, and/or quote for the day?

Be present is still working for me so I'm sticking with it

[Dobby]

Did I eat mindfully? Not really. Not sure where my mind's at.

Did I take care of and nurture my body? After seeing this thread (thanks for the reminder), I'm getting on the mini trampoline.

Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk? Yes.

Did I use my tools of recovery? These may include meal plans, water minimums, journaling, etc.- Whatever works for YOU. I keep meaning to get back into the journalling, but have been awfully busy lately. What I mean is, I need to get all my recipes, etc together and figure out the calorie counts so I can be accurate instead of guessing.

Did I share my experience with food for the day somewhere I feel safe and nurtured? This may be here, in this forum, with a therapist, a close friend, a group such as OA, etc.- Again, whatever works for YOU. Yes...here, and I plan on making a scrapbook page about this struggle to share with my TOPS group on Thursday.

Did I select a word, phrase, and/or quote for the day? Didn't even think of it, but here's the quote on my fridge...'My mind is stronger than my body. It will decide what to eat and how much to eat.'