Lately I have found myself building on small victories even though I haven't lost much weight lately. The victories have been in the mental mind games that I have been winning. These will eventually lead to success in the weight loss area I am certain. Until they do, I am going to keep up with what I have discovered to be a very good practice, that is, talking myself out of eating in bad situations. I have come up with a few situations and how I talk myself out of eating that I would like to share with you all today.
Do you ever think you are hungry when you are not ?You go into the pantry, look around for some food, or open up the frig, stare around with fixated eyes hoping to figure out just what kind of food you are hungry for ? Been there ? Yep, probably, you're not really hungry at all and don't need to be eating at all. In cases like this I know where my a** should be and it shouldn't be where I planted it at the moment. More than likely I've eaten my daily caloric intake for the day because this situation for me usually happens at night after I've finished all of my eating. So, here's what I say to myself, " Lory, you have had enough food for the day. Your body doesn't need any more food to survive. Anymore food you want is just your desire to eat and not real hunger. I would rather lose weight than have food at this point. This desire to eat is smaller than my desire to lose weight. Go sit back down and go do something else."I just told myself off and told myself to go do something else. It's been working. I found when you talk back to yourself, you sometimes listen.
It's one - two hours before a meal and I have had my snack and I am hungry. I need to wait a little longer for dinner. For a diabetic this sometimes is hard. If my bg is fine I can wait and must wait at times. It is actually good for me to wait both from a diet stand point but also from a bg standpoint. I have to tell myself two things, " It is only a short time till dinner, you can wait, you've done it before. You were told you had to have four to five hours between meals in pump class, you can do this for yourself. It's only a short time. You've had to wait longer periods than this before. Go drink some water." Each time I reminded myself that I could do, and given myself something to go do.
I was at Central Market again yesterday and faced with all those freebies at snack time. I said to myself, " not this time Lory. Turn yourself away from them and go in the opposite direction. If you want a snack, go to the bins and get out one ounce of something you can eat. You can make this work. You want to lose weight before the wedding don't you. " So, I went and got an ounce of a snack I could eat and managed to avoid all the fresh bread and pastry samples for the first time !
I hope in my sharing that I'm helping a few of you with your night time eating, binge eating, or stress eating. Some of this I've learned from the Beck Book while the rest I found I was doing on my own before I read the book. In any case, how you handle the mental part of your diet does make a difference. That discipline comes from within. That desire comes from within an is encouraged when we succeed in what we are doing. I hope and pray that we all find that something within us that will make us successful.