Hi Summer! Yep, I'm ready too, but thought maybe we'd wait til Sunday and give folks a chance to catch up. I'll be out of town til Sunday evening, but if you want to go ahead and start the new thread, I can just post behind you with the link to this one.
My biggest problems are: not eating at the dining room table, eating with the tv on, not planning meals, eating when I am bored, letting myself get too hungry so that I eat whatever I can get my hands on. So many times I eat totally mindlessly and then suddenly I"ll kind of wake up and think to myself what the heck have I have done and then I'll feel nauseous because I feel so disgusted with myself and also because I've eaten about a million calories of straight sugar. So what I need to do most importantly is JUST eat at the dining room table, no matter what or when I eat and also I need to start doing some meal planning.
Jen I engage in those same activities. Eating without thinking. I am improving alot. I still don't eat at the table, but I am finding that I am not feeling so "munchy" all the time. I have concentrated on meal planning so I knwo what and when i am going to eat. I know that if I eat that junky candy bar now I won't have enough points to eat beef strganoff later. To me beef stroganoff is much more filling, satifying, and yummy than a candy bar. I know it will suck to eat just salad as I watch my family eat something warm and yummy and good. SO why waste my points on junk? But I only suceed in this when I plan ahead. If I don't knwo what is coming up I tend to eat whatever now. That's why I liek the points, I liek knowing exactly how much more I can have. When I am done I am done, no points no food. Its' working for me.
I am also finding activities like crocheting help b/c I can't eat and do it at the same time. Also my daighter is 20 months old, she wants to eat whatever i am eating. I don't want her eating snacks and junky stuf fbefore meals, so i can't eat them either b/c I can't eat inf orn t of her and not share.
Speaking fo which she is awake form her nap. I might have a few more note son this chapter so perhaps I'll write more later. I look forward to hearing how other people cope with this
Well I have improved in some small ways. Right now my worst thing is lunch because most of the time I am home by myself at lunch and don't eat the way I should. I am more likely to eat terribly then compound the mistake by eating more. For example today I ate a large bowl of buttered popcorn (air popped but about 1 T of butter) and then crackers with cheez whiz and then several orange/chocolate cookies. Talk about a carb feast!! The popcorn really isn't too bad even with the butter, if I had stopped at that I would have been okay but then I just had to keep on going. Breakfast is usually pretty good, a bowl of oatmeal and a piece of fruit and then supper is usually reasonable because I'm cooking for my husband and son as well. I can usually control myself to smaller portions and no dessert or like maybe one bite though I need to cut that out as well. So getting control over lunch is my big goal right now. I need to get to the supermarket and buy some stuff I can nuke, I don't mind eating a few small meatballs with a couple of cups of veggies, that has been a good lunch for me before and it fits in with dr.phil's plan.
I hear ya about wanting to be a good role model for your daughter. I have a 3 year old son and I don't want him to grow up as an overweight child. I don't let him eat a lot of cookies and candy etc. Like one cookie or one candy is okay, just not 10 times a day! He is at the stage where he has weird eating habits. Yesterday he refused anything for breakfast then decided he wanted a grilled cheese sandwich which I made for him and he ate about half of that. He has lunch at daycare and then at supper he had a cup of milk and 3 slices of processed cheese! He didn't want what we were having for supper...ham, salad and perogies (I had only 2 perogies, lots of salad and a regular serving of ham). I can't say that is great eating for a 3 year old but I suppose it is better than having him eat a bunch of cookies.
My biggest problem is sodas. Dr. Pepper in fact. I have no impulse control when it comes to them, and I am giving them up. I figure, if I don't have them in the house, I can't drink them.
I don't have a kitchen table, there is no room in my apartment for one, unless I go to Lowe's and purchase the material to make one by hand, which i will probably do at the end of the month. So, for now, the kids and I eat at the coffee table. Well they do, and I eat at my computer, which I know is bad, however, I end up only eating one helping of food, cause I am too busy on the computer to bother with getting up to get more food? Good and bad?
I have been snacking on microwave popcorn quite a bit lately, and have decided that I can no longer buy that. I bought it for the kids, cause they wanted it, then I end up eating most of it when it is made. So, no more. Anyway, that's where I am with impulse control.
Don't you hate that, bought it for the kids (or husband in my case) and then end up eating it yourself?? that happens to me all the time. I'll buy chips or cookies or something treat-like and end up eating myself. Recently my husband requested donuts and I was in the mood that I would have eaten them so I just didn't buy them or sometimes I will buy just 1 for him and then I am not tempted by half a dozen donuts. Chips I am really bad with. If there is bag open I will finish it off everytime. It is just so much easier not to have it in the house to begin with! My husband doesn't need it either so I just don't buy snacks anymore. He's not into eating fruit or veggies as snacks but still he's not going to binge on snacks and then not eat when supper is ready.
