Stay in Choice! Mindful Eating
Stay in Choice
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Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:39 AM PDT I just read a lovely post about "staying in choice". I find that phrase interesting because in three short words, our whole world can change. Realize that you have a choice about how you handle your life. You don't always get to chose your cir****tances but you always have a choice about your reaction to them. |
My Mantra is that I do not determine my success by the number hanging in my closet, nor will I let the scale determine that success either. . . It is through trial and error I will continue to grow and succeed. . . Laureen
"Success is a journey, not a destination." Ben Sweetland
I believe it's not about willpower. Let's take willpower out of the picture. Who can have total control of willpower 24/7? I say no one can. It's about choices, and making the right choice for YOU. We are all different so what works for one person will not for another.
Really for me it's about exercise and watching what I reach for. It's about not having cookies and chips in my house and if I do they are sent home with others. Cookies and chips call my name!!
I want to live my life not "freaking about food choices" and I can do that. Especially with Mindful Eating and learning new relationships about food and my choices.
It's easy for me right now in the AM to just reach for an EAS protein shake because I'm not hungry. Then mid morning a fresh fruit snack. When I'm at work it's easy too for me, I just bring a WW dinner and heat it in the microwave and eat my baby carrots. I'm not fudging around in the fridge like I would be if I was home.
Now night eating/snacking...remains a struggle for me, I like eating while watching TV, it's a bad habit! Ugh!
Now with teenagers around all the time and a 4 year old there are things for them. Not tons... we are not junk food junkies. However, there is enough that I can't leave it alone. I am doomed!!
Hugs....connie d
Just keep being aware of what you are reaching for and why.
Try to to visual images in your head, sometimes that helps me.
I also keep in the back of my mind...do I really want this M&M? I will have to walk the entire length of a football field to get the calories off of just one M&M!!! God forbid if I that a whole handful. LOL
So I say you are not doomed, you are just living life and throw in a little stress to boot and what do we have? Well some have emotional eating, some just want what they want and throw up their hands and say to themselves...I want it!
Just keep on keeping on Connie. You will get to your happy place! Hugs Debbie
