Oct242007
A Small Victory
Filed under Day to Day by kristen at 2:10 pm on Oct 24 2007
I don’t know if any of you can relate to the following situation. You are going to have company over. You bake a dessert of some sort. In my case it was a pan of brownies. You day kind of goes downhill, life happens, children fighting, house gets messed up, etc. So you run to the pan of brownies & decide to just have one. Before you know it, the one brownie turns in to a whole row. Then your company arrives and you have a pan of brownies with a row missing.
Am I the only one that this happens to? Surely not. Last night was my scrapbook club meeting. So I made the brownies about lunch time. Between my girls bickering, me not feeling well, trying to get the house picked up, etc., I wanted to dig in to those brownies.
But I didn’t. But I resisted. Huge hurdle for me. I didn’t turn to food when things weren’t going right, when I didn’t feel well, and the stress was building up.
I think it is important while we are walking on this path, that we find alternate methods of coping with the things that get to us. If we are always turning to food during those times what are we going to do when we lose the weight and are trying to keep it off? We won’t be able to turn to the food and still fit in to our clothes. This is just something that has been on my mind for the last few weeks as I get closer to goal.
For me, I had to sit down, take some deep breathes and think about how far I have come & that food hasn’t done me any good in the past. So why would I turn to it in a moment of frustration?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
