Right now I just want to give up...this is going to take so long and I am already exhausted.
To fight this feeling and to keep my mind focused on what I can control, I came home from my WW meeting and measured out all of my snacks, figured out the point values, added them onto the WW online site, and labeled the packages! I no longer have the desire to eat the entire box of Nut-Thins crackers because I have figured out how many points are in a serving and I have made little individual snack bags!
I am going to keep refocusing myself all day so that I don't go bananas and sabotage myself!
My sweet Erin -- I'm so proud of you for listing the good news before your frustration -- and for doing something proactive, despite your frustration. Your snack packs sound AWESOME!!! And the fact that you went right home and did them is even awesome-er. You have not failed at all, my friend. You are moving in the right direction, and learning so much, and making progress towards your goal. You can totally do this!!!
ReplyDeleteI also really like your active intention to "keep refocusing yourself" all day. What techniques do you use for this? I need to do similar things on hard days -- talk myself down from the cliff :-) -- in therapy I'm working a lot on learning how to self-comfort. It is an interesting process, talking myself out of certain harmful impulses.
I wish you the best in refocusing throughout the day. Awesome! Prayer and meditation and all the other refocusing things I'm sure you do. Be good to yourself, my friend.
And thanks for being such a good example of making good food choices. It is amazing how much better I feel today when I ate yogurt and blueberries and an avocado for breakfast rather than girl scout cookies and hot chocolate!!!
I also just realized that, since October, I have lost 22 pounds!!!!!
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