My first day (yesterday) of being purposeful not to overeat went fairly well until my husband started his evening snacking....it is so easy to join in. But though initially I was trying not to have anything--the truth was I was truly hungry as we had a very early dinner. So I decided to give myself grace and not force my "no-food-after-dinner" attempt, and I had an orange & some pistachios, instead. It helped me forget about food for the rest of the evening as I was no longer trying to ignore being truly hungry. If I had not reached for something healthy I think I would have given in to a sugar binge.
Today I was tempted so much after I got home from work at 3:30pm. The kind of temptation of 'go ahead and eat the sweets you want, you can start being serious about your weight another day....". But then, it came to my mind that I wanted to check in on this blog this evening and I asked myself, "Do you want to write you succeeded today? Or, do you want to write you blew it? Or, do you want to not write at all and pretend you didn't even decide to do better?"
Hmmm...thankfully I choose to have a successful day to report.
I'm sure I'm going through the sugar withdrawals today which is why the cravings were so strong last evening and this afternoon. I know from experience it just takes a few days of no sugar and the craving significantly subside. I just have to trust it won't always feel this hard, as I know it does get better.
So for today I took each temptation one at a time and sanely dealt with the insane justifications bombarding my mind to go the opposite direction I'm setting out towards. I thank God for helping me when I let Him.
Thanks to you too, my goal partners!