victoriagirl's Journal

A new day
Nov 09 2009 10:20

Monday, ugh. Yucko. In a way I am glad though, it's a new week, a new start to getting back on track. The weekend was pretty brutal, food-wise, but I am not going to talk about that. Even I am bored with hearing the same thing over and over from me, so why torture the rest of you lol. This backslide has been very concerning but it's over now. Today is the real start of truly getting back on the heathy-eating track. I am very good at making delicious, healthy, low-cal food and I have never felt deprived when I am focused on eating right, so I don't know what this recent interest has been in chips and dip and other gross former-life crap....I guess comfort eating, plain and simple. Well from now on I take comfort in celery lol. I kid but I really do need to find different ways of comforting myself when I am low.

New connections:

Instead of saying "I am sad. I want chocolate and cake and foodfoodfood"

I will say "I am feeling sad right now, but it will pass. In the meatime I will go to the gym and get some endorphins going!"

Instead of "It's cold and rainy and miserable out, I want to curl up under the covers and veg out"

I will say " This weather is very challenging and gives me an opportunity to feel totally badass for biking in it anyway!"

or "Isn't it great that there are so many indoor activities I can do like going to the gym or painting or cooking up a batch of soup."

Instead of trying to ignore my feelings of anxiety and push them down,

I will explore how I feel, accept it as normal, and rather than worry about falling into a pit of depair if I look to closely I will DO something to work off the anxiety, see choices above.