Quote:
Originally Posted by changeforme
so yeah, ie oopsie. i sat down with some cookies, had my fill (about 2 cookies) said to myself that i was satisfied and proudly listened to my body and set the cookies down. a little while later i looked down and the plate was empty. gah! distracted eating much?
so i went for a long walk with the pup and listened to some podcasts on ie. i know i do a lot better with change when i take it one little baby step at a time, i'd just been bullheaded and didn't want to take the same approach to my health. so i'm breaking ie down into baby steps, my first one is focusing on eating and eating only when eating. i don't care if i'm eating because of emotional reasons or even binging - i'm going to do it at the table, with real dishes, without distractions. i'm not putting a time frame on this - i'm just going to make it my priority as far as ie, health, etc goes. once this becomes habit, then i'll look for a next step.
have you guys had any luck with this? the baby steps or the mindfulness of only eating at the table?
Well, I don't have a table (I don't even have a house!)
but all kidding aside: YES. Without a doubt. I just finished blogging about it actually, take a look if you're interested
What I've discovered is that right now, I can only implement 1 or 2 changes at a time. With long periods of experimenting to find out what does & doesn't work for me. First step, cutting down on sugar & processed **** that made me feel awful? That took me over a month to start getting a handle on. Then truly doing IE, I have that sorted I think. But the exercise? I go all over the place trying to introduce changes, and it's because I've been getting ahead of myself.
I would say that the sad, slow answer is: if your change doesn't feel like something you'd be happy doing for life, you either need to persevere or admit it's not for you and try something else. I could try to run on a treadmill for 15 minutes as many times over as I'd like, but I know I won't stick with it like I'd stick with 3 solid hours of speed skating (this is why I used to be 112lbs and strong! I miss that
). Now, I've given up on trying things I know aren't working mentally, but I'll never give up trying to do it all NOW
And if you're worried about the cookies... Don't be. Read my second last blog post and feel free to laugh, or whatever!
About the paleo thing. It appeals to me. In as much as most of the time I feel good eating "clean" food that came out of a real plant, not out of a chemical plant. I'm not one for rules at all, and I gravitate towards low-carb naturally, and higher carb when I'm exercising. I do like to read up on different plans to see what knowledge can be gained from them, but not to FOLLOW them. I have found that personally, "following" tends to be a bad thing, as rules can't tell me how to live, but instinct and critical thinking and evidence can. But different weight loss communities can teach me a lot, much like there's a lot that can be learned from IE by people who find something different works for them overall.