First of all, thanks Ruffryder for welcoming me to the thread. I wanted to say that first before I forgot.
With the last week I have been reading, analyzing my actions, trying to make changes, keeping a daily food log, writing in a journal, and trying to eat less and move more. I have had one success this week in that I was able to fit back into the pants I wore at the beginning of my internship last summer. However, I celebrated by eating a piece of jello poke cake. I find that the old habits are dying hard. I reach and put things in my mouth before I even think about it. I found this especially true since my brother's family was here for a couple days. I would be interacting with them and not even aware that I was shoving a little bite here and a little bite there into my mouth while we talked. Ugh! I am now trying to figure out how to be more mindful of my actions and even reactions because I think that is what emotional eating is about (the reactions).
Did anyone else have this struggle? If so what strategies did you employ to help stop the behaviors? If you did not have a struggle here what do you think helped so you didn't?
I find my mind running in many different ways with what needs to be done and grasping at ways to get a grip....Idk if this is normal, but it is how it has been this first couple weeks.
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