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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!!
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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?
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Good Morning Everyone!!!! Hope your all off to a good day.
Did I eat mindfully?For the most part.
Did I take care of and nurture my body?yes, again I spent some time in "informal" excersize as we started to lug the tree from the backyard to the curb. I did find though that a small bit of "fear/guilt" has wiggled through at me for not completing my "formal" excersize routine. The fear is that my pattern has been that once I get off the path of routinely excersizing everything goes down hill. I told myself it was ok and that working with the tree was enough for right now. If I would've attempted my routine on top of that after doing both the day before it wouldn't have been burturing my body it would have been abusing it.
Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk?yes, I'm still confronting the negatives.
Did I use my tools of recovery? These may include meal plans, water minimums, journaling, etc.- Whatever works for YOU.excersize
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? just one more (tree branch not cookie lol)
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Did I eat mindfully? so so -didn't mindlessly snack but didn't listen to my body very well either.
Did I take care of and nurture my body? A fun Mother/Daughter day not sure it was good for my body (like in figure) but it was good for my soul which in turn is good for my body
Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk? Sure tried too but I have become obsessed with the scale number lately Stepping on it several times a day not because I think anything I did will have changed it but just to see if it was wrong. I think this might be a form of negative self talk.
Did I use my tools of recovery? These may include meal plans, water minimums, journaling, etc.- Whatever works for YOU. No
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? No
GG, good for you for recognizing the difference between nurturing yourself and pushing yourself too hard. It can be a difficult distinction but is definately an important one.
imagine, I have to keep my scale in the top of the closet so it is an effort to get it out and step on it.
Did I eat mindfully?
yes and no. I had exactly what I wanted for lunch despite considerable effort to make it happen. I put my fork down between bites. then for some reason in the evening I ignored a craving and tried to make a substitution... it didn't work and I ate the substitution and the craving food.
Did I take care of and nurture my body?
yes
Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk?
still a progressive thing for me
Did I use my tools of recovery? These may include meal plans, water minimums, journaling, etc.- Whatever works for YOU.
yes, but I think I need a few new ones to help with those cravings
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?
what are you hungry for?
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I ignored a craving and tried to make a substitution... it didn't work and I ate the substitution and the craving food.
You are definitely on your way to listening to your body.
I too find if I don't give in to the craving that I eat the substitution and the craving.
I believe bodies crave something because they need it and if you don't give it to them they still need it and look for it.
I once read that diet soda ( sugar free foods) taste like they have sugar in them so our taste for sweet if satisfied but your body didn't get the sugar it needed so we start craving more sugar. And yes, I believe that our bodies can crave sugar it is something the body needs.
Side note: I might just have to put the scale in a harder to reach place. So far I have to move the bathroom rug and scoot the scale over apparently this has become to easy. Since I have been doing it several times a day. I think my scale is also playing with my head since it's numbers vary form scale step to scale step even if the time difference is a few mins. I think my words for today should be "I'm not a number on a scale" So hard when you know the doc is going to be looking at the number on the scale in a month and half.
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I agree that the cravings have meaning... there is a lot of research into pregnancy cravings and what they mean and they abslolutely have to do with deficiancies. I also agree sugar is absolutely necessary for our bodies! I've read the same things about artificial sweeteners and my own experiences lead me to believe that it's true.
And you are absolutely so much more than a number on a scale!
ETA: If a doctor's visit is really making you anxious you can refuse to be weighed. When I scheduled my last appointment I explained that I was working on some body image issues and that I had been putting off appointments because I didn't want to be weighed. The doc agreed that my overall health and keeping my appointments was more important than his writing a number on my chart and agreed to let me skip it.
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"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. " Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I agree that the cravings have meaning... there is a lot of research into pregnancy cravings and what they mean and they abslolutely have to do with deficiancies. I also agree sugar is absolutely necessary for our bodies! I've read the same things about artificial sweeteners and my own experiences lead me to believe that it's true.
And you are absolutely so much more than a number on a scale!
ETA: If a doctor's visit is really making you anxious you can refuse to be weighed. When I scheduled my last appointment I explained that I was working on some body image issues and that I had been putting off appointments because I didn't want to be weighed. The doc agreed that my overall health and keeping my appointments was more important than his writing a number on my chart and agreed to let me skip it.
It isn't really the weighting at the doctors office that has me anxious. It is not letting the doc down and very nervous about what she will want/require me to do if I don't succeed. I really don't want to go to weight watchers or the nutritionist. I so want to show her I can do this on my own. So far she has trusted me to do it on my own and I don't want to let her down. I so want to show her I can do it on my own.
Did I eat mindfully? Fairly. had a few things not on my list, but they were something I decided to eat, I wasn't mindlessly munching.
Did I take care of and nurture my body? Yep! Did a bunch more shovelling of snow at work, and got on the trampoline for a bit at home.
Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk? Not consciously, but I had a good day, so does that count? lol!
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. Here.
Did I select a word, phrase, and/or quote for the day? Hmmm...
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