Wow, this diet has help me realize...
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Wow, this diet has help me realize...
what an emotional eater I am. Shame on Me! I never thought I was one of those people. Today was an off day, I was angry about a situation, stressed with my three little ones and I really just cought myself wanting to snack it all away. A confession, I have had lots of extra bites today, but I stopped myself and will consider this still a successful day because normally under these circumstances I would have made it an eat eat and just go ahead eat day.
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Re: Wow, this diet has help me realize...
This is just how I see things:jellybeans01 wrote:Shame on Me! I never thought I was one of those people.
Only be ashamed if you lie to yourself about it. If it's a failure, mark it and move on... be proud to be honest, and try to gently determine where you went astray.
IME, being kind to yourself (including how you talk to/about you), will actually reduce your propensity to do the emotional eating schtick. I can beat myself up, emotionally, better than anyone else, and that just makes my problem feel worse (and more hopeless, and more like a half a bag of nacho chips). But somewhere I came across the idea that I should not speak to myself in any way that I would not speak to a friend, a child or someone who is elderly. I wouldn't hold myself up as any kind of example... but it's an idea which is helping me.
I also think maybe you are upset because you have a, dare I say this?, prejudice against "those people." I really don't want to anger you by saying that, only suggest that you might want to consider it as a possible problem, in that it makes it more difficult for you to view yourself and others with compassion.
I hate writing these comments; I am hardly qualified to pontificate. But if you were my friend, I'd say you needed a hug, not a scolding, and I wanted to suggest that, so to speak, you hug yourself instead of scolding yourself. In any case, at least please accept my good wishes
Nulla palma sine pulvere.
'No garland of victory without first the dust of the arena.'
Sometimesians, unite!
'No garland of victory without first the dust of the arena.'
Sometimesians, unite!