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(I am not consistently eating slowly and mindfully without distractions...I know this is one I still need to keep working at)
I had one self-sabotoging thought the other day. It was mid-afternoon, about a half an hour before I'd normally eat my snack, which was to be a sugar free yogurt. I was headed home and I decided I really wanted a Starbucks Lite Frappacino (something not on South Beach officially, but which I allow myself as a snack up to once a week during the summer). I started to tell myself that Beck is about learning to think like a thin person, and thin people do get to sometimes act on eating impulses...they don't have to do all this planning and stick to a plan. I should get to do it too.
I ended up talking myself down from getting the frap by remembering that I'm still really in the early stages of this. I still have to write down my food and stick to my plan. For now, I have NO CHOICE about unplanned eating. For now, I'm still working on the parts of thinking like a thin person that are about becoming less attached to food, more attuned to hunger and satisfaction, more able to pass up food just because it's there. For now, I need the structure that I get from planning and sticking to the plan. That may change eventually, but not yet.
I am curious to hear from long time Beck-ers, whether you get to to point of occasionally giving in to food impulses and being okay with that.
WOW! you actually so deserve the Credit! you are putting all that thought into it AND you did a NO CHOICE thing... Originally Posted by barbpos
Hi all....still going strong here. I'm consistently planning my food, eating according to plan, exercising 6 or 7 times a week, referring to my advantage list, remembering responses, eating sitting down, passing up sweets even when they're in front of me during a boring or frustrating meeting, passing up even healthy food when it's not planned, posting on the South Beach Diet board. WOW!!!!...credit me....and credit Judith Beck!!!!(I am not consistently eating slowly and mindfully without distractions...I know this is one I still need to keep working at)
I had one self-sabotoging thought the other day. It was mid-afternoon, about a half an hour before I'd normally eat my snack, which was to be a sugar free yogurt. I was headed home and I decided I really wanted a Starbucks Lite Frappacino (something not on South Beach officially, but which I allow myself as a snack up to once a week during the summer). I started to tell myself that Beck is about learning to think like a thin person, and thin people do get to sometimes act on eating impulses...they don't have to do all this planning and stick to a plan. I should get to do it too.
I ended up talking myself down from getting the frap by remembering that I'm still really in the early stages of this. I still have to write down my food and stick to my plan. For now, I have NO CHOICE about unplanned eating. For now, I'm still working on the parts of thinking like a thin person that are about becoming less attached to food, more attuned to hunger and satisfaction, more able to pass up food just because it's there. For now, I need the structure that I get from planning and sticking to the plan. That may change eventually, but not yet.
I am curious to hear from long time Beck-ers, whether you get to to point of occasionally giving in to food impulses and being okay with that.
of course on SBD that once a week treat when we are closer to our final goal is perfectly fine.... it's planned for... so maybe when you PLAN for it it would be ok?