Just want to share my own progression on the new Beyond the Scale plan.
I am an emotional/binge/whatever reason eater. Doritos, sweets, you name it, it's my enemy. The first week on the program was a STRUGGLE but by the end of the week I was getting the hang of it.
I'm 3 days in to my second week and I have to share what is happening to me. Doritos = crack for me. Got home last night after a busy, hectic and somewhat stressful day to find a bag of doritos as a gift from my boyfriend. I opened them, absentmindedly ate 3 of them, then realized I didn't want them. I ate a point of Doritos. I have been known to polish off half a bag or more in a sitting.
Today is my department's treat day. Table full of goodies, cookies,
sweets, donuts, muffins, chocolates, and more. I didn't feel tempted
until lunch so I went and picked veggies out of a noodle dish and took
just a few noodles, took a buckeye ball and a cookie.
Nibbled the buckeye ... too sweet ... not right ... not worth it.
Broke a tiny piece of the cookie off ... flavor not magical ... greasy film in my mouth .... not worth it ...
Ate the veggies ... started on the noodles .... realized nah, it was not what I wanted or worth the points and I snuck in the bathroom and flushed it all.
Came back to my office, had a pack of tuna and an apple.
Let me put it in perspective how HUGE this is for me. In the past I would have had one of everything. I love peanut butter and could easily pop 5 or more of them in my mouth without thinking. I would have rifled through the chocolates to find my favorites and probably taken more than my fair share. If no one was looking I probably would have taken a few cookie, maybe even hid one in my pocket, and I would have finished it off with a giant plate of noodles. I would have made every excuse (it's a special day! I don't get these foods all the time! It's CHRISTMAS!!)
As shocked as I feel right now, I'm hoping that this is part of what the new program brings me, a NORMAL relationship with food. I don't know what it's like to have one, but for me passing up literal mounds of free food is something I struggle with every time it's an opportunity. I even had them move the treat table as it was just too close to me before and it was so much easier to sneak food.
I'm baking cookies and getting food ready all weekend and next week and right now I feel like I can handle that. This time last week I was dreading it.
I can't say this will happen for everyone, but it happened to me and I always think I'm the special one who WW won't work for smile emoticon Hang in there and say a prayer for me that this isn't just some fluke or that I'm temporarily possessed! We can make this a happy holiday!
Nibbled the buckeye ... too sweet ... not right ... not worth it.
Broke a tiny piece of the cookie off ... flavor not magical ... greasy film in my mouth .... not worth it ...
Ate the veggies ... started on the noodles .... realized nah, it was not what I wanted or worth the points and I snuck in the bathroom and flushed it all.
Came back to my office, had a pack of tuna and an apple.
Let me put it in perspective how HUGE this is for me. In the past I would have had one of everything. I love peanut butter and could easily pop 5 or more of them in my mouth without thinking. I would have rifled through the chocolates to find my favorites and probably taken more than my fair share. If no one was looking I probably would have taken a few cookie, maybe even hid one in my pocket, and I would have finished it off with a giant plate of noodles. I would have made every excuse (it's a special day! I don't get these foods all the time! It's CHRISTMAS!!)
As shocked as I feel right now, I'm hoping that this is part of what the new program brings me, a NORMAL relationship with food. I don't know what it's like to have one, but for me passing up literal mounds of free food is something I struggle with every time it's an opportunity. I even had them move the treat table as it was just too close to me before and it was so much easier to sneak food.
I'm baking cookies and getting food ready all weekend and next week and right now I feel like I can handle that. This time last week I was dreading it.
I can't say this will happen for everyone, but it happened to me and I always think I'm the special one who WW won't work for smile emoticon Hang in there and say a prayer for me that this isn't just some fluke or that I'm temporarily possessed! We can make this a happy holiday!
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