Daily Accountability- March 8

[AdamantEve]

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?

[AdamantEve]

Elphie, i didn't get on the wii fit yesterday, but i haven't forgotten and will let you know what i find out ASAP

I'm not feeling my best still plugging along. Hope to be back later.

Did I eat mindfully? Yes, but it was hard to stay focused when i was feeling down. Was OP.

Did I take care of and nurture my body? Yeah, I did alright in this area... there is some room for improvement there.

Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk? yep

Did I use my tools of recovery? These may include meal plans, water minimums, journaling, etc.- Whatever works for YOU.
Yes, another day OP and I took myself out on a solo-date to look around and go window shopping which was nice.

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.
I shared here!

Did I select a word, phrase, and/or quote for the day?
Progress, not perfection.

My best to all for a happy, healthy day!

[TheRootedNomad]

Sorry your not feeling up to par Eve. Hopefully you'll feel better as the day goes on.

Did I eat mindfully?Yes

Did I take care of and nurture my body? I did better here today. I excersized some and used vitamin E for my skin.

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 was busy yesterday so other than making sure I paid attention and took a few minutes to do healthy things for my body I didn't spend much time on this.

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?I will not neglect my body today.

[AdamantEve]

Just checking in....

Hi there GG, your accountability looks good, glad you are taking care of yourself

I went Off-Plan today and had some chocolates. i got hungry, so hungry, tired and sad. I acted on it. I managed to just have a couple- I won't beat myself up over it. Tomorrow is a new day.

[elphie]

GG- looks like you had a good day! So glad to hear it.

Eve- hang in there, a few chocolates are not so bad. You might spend some time thinking about why this happened, were you feeling deprived, down about something, stressed? Definately don't beat yourself up but don't be afraid to confront why this happened.

Did I eat mindfully?

Ate dinner in front of the tv but not the rest of the day. I'm still finding it difficult to focus on the food even when I choose not to have distractions.

Did I take care of and nurture my body?

no time for a walk, forgot my water bottle when I left the house and ended up drinking a soda that gave me a headache

Did I practice self acceptance and avoid negative self talk?

I stumbled here yesterday, the last few days have been difficult. I made the decision to leave an ED forum because I was just not getting the support there that I needed. The straw that broke the camel's back was a thread about overweight/obese people not being truly recovered. When people tried to explain that actively trying to lose weight was not good for their recovery most people blew this off. Then there were a few posts that I found outright bigoted on the topic. I could have chosen to report the posters but truly, it wouldn't have mattered. I knew that I did not have the kind of support system there that I needed even if they had to be more careful in their posts. It is hard to learn to accept yourself when NO ONE else understands it.

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

forgot my water, too busy to read or journal

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, not in RL. although I did manage to speak up and say I was hungry when I felt it, usually I will only admit hunger if others say they are hungry first. Wierd I know but somehow I just assume that if others are also hungry then the hunger is normal, if they aren't then its not. So, just speaking up and saying, I'm hungry even if you're not was kind of progress in this area for me.

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

Surrender- I keep saying but not actually doing this which is why it was not a stellar day.