OK, it's been eight days since my last entry. Eight kind of stressful days; which I have not done as well as I would have liked with my diet. My exercise plan has gone pretty well, which is a good thing. Nonetheless, I have to improve on what I choose to put into my body.
Until the past few weeks I had not realized how often that I eat emotionally. Yes, I've heard those stories about someone being upset and eating a whole cake. Don't worry, my emotional eating is nothing like that. Mine is more like: "I am stressed, I want to go out to dinner." Or sometimes it appears like this: "I'm tired of eating lunch at home, I want Carl's." Then, sometimes I choose to stick to "the plan", and sometimes I choose to relieve stress "my way."
I come from a background that tells me it's not good to have certain emotions, or to allow my emotions to dictate my behavior. What I am learning is that I need to allow myself to feel these emotions and respond to them in a way that is in my best interest. For someone to say that one should not allow emotions to determine what one eats is painting with a pretty broad brush. If dining out, or eating something crunchy, or enjoying one's favorite beverage works as a stress reliever, then it should not be ruled out. We are all wired differently, and we all have our unique ways of relieving stress.
So, hopefully the next few weeks will not be as stressful for me as the past few have been. I know that when I stick to my plan, I see much better results on the scale and in the mirror.
Tomorrow is a weigh-in day. I hope to be no higher than last weeks weigh-in.
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