I am 300lbs, 5'5" female in my late 40's. I am working on overcoming the shame of continued failure in my weight loss attempts. I do believe in CICO. Its the effort of the calories out that is so very different for each person. Why do some of us just simply not do the best thing for our health? It is very hard to navigate all the psychological barriers in place that cause me to self-sabotage. I have been to therapy several times with the specifically stated goal of examing this. But we always spend so much time my crazy chaotic childhood I never get to the current "how to change my behavior" work. While I am certain they are connected, I want to get to the point where I have actual steps that will help me in my current time. My post is rambly, I know. My point is yesterday I bought a Marie Calendars Chicken Pot Pie. I haven't had one in decades, not for any particular reason other than I don't eat a lot of processed foods. I was eating it and really enjoying it. Then I decided, hey, maybe I should look at the calories... Holy Cow. I was dumbfounded to see it was at least 800 calories (don't have the package here) and 75 percent of daily sodium and something like 100 grams of carbohydrates. Now I am only talking about for myself, no judgment on the pie itself, but that is just way over the top of everything for me personally to want to continue to eat it. I threw the rest out and didn't feel bad or deprived of doing it. It wasn't good for me. In the past I would have just finished it, there wasn't that much left. Also late last night I was a little bit hungry and I had turkey jerky in the fridge. I said to myself, I think that maybe I would be better off not having the extra snack, even though it's not a whole lot of calories, maybe I can just wait until tomorrow and so what I did was take the smallest piece off and have it and I said to myself, this is good, but I could have also waited. So. I wonder if this small inner voice that is not judging or being mean but coming from a place of health and self-love is the voice that I need to find every single time I need to make a choice about what to eat. I wonder if this is the voice people listen too when they don't have issues with over-eating? I would like to come up with some kind of a little ritual or habit that helps me stop, think, and reminds me to make the best choices for myself. For instance, like a little song to sing to myself, or a card I pull out and read. Something to stop the mindlessness. I was hoping maybe others have used little tricks or tips they could pass on like this... Thank you so much for reading all of this!
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