Isabelle
My first big
realisation of this week is that I am a chronic emotional eater. I always have to eat everything on my plate,
always have eyes bigger than my stomach and eat at times I’m just not hungry,
but ‘want’ food. I push myself to the
feeling of uncomfortably full, instead of stopping when I’ve had enough – it’s
like I feel as though I will be missing out if I don’t eat it now.
This week I
have been focussing on only eating when I am hungry, however this hasn’t always
worked to plan. The most difficult times
I found were family meal times - it's hard when you're sitting around the table
for dinner to say, 'No thanks, I'm not hungry!'
I’m often
thinking that I ‘might get hungry later’, however I need to learn that being
hungry for a couple of hours isn’t the worst thing in the world. On the upside, this week I have been eating
what I like, instead of trying to be good, which has been nice! Although the
Burger King I had for dinner on Saturday night made me feel pretty vile, so I
won’t be having that again in a hurry!
It’s nice to begin to understand what makes me feel good and what makes
me feel rubbish, so I need to make note of these things and not put myself
through it again! Onwards and upwards,
looking forward to next week!
My start weight at the beginning of
this week was 78.2kg and today is 77.8kg - 400g loss.
Lilly in
London
Since moving to the UK, I haven’t
been surrounded by food in the same way I was in Sydney. I live with other
young people instead of family now so the fridge usually borders on empty. I
don’t know where all the great places are to eat and there’s a definite lack of
variety here and I’m not working, so there’s no scheduled food breaks where I
feel obliged to eat.
Hunger seems to be this annoying
little knock to my brain. I tend to be a very cerebral person, judging hunger
from the time, the distance since my last meal and the deliciousness potential
of the food. But here, I’m getting the ravenous feeling. Last night was wonderful.
I ate a creamy pasta, garlic bread, a chocolate sundae and a hot chocolate. And
yet this morning, I’m ravenous again! Eating when I’m hungry has been
interesting; I’ve found my body to be very demanding. All this because I am
letting it call the shots and not me!
It’s been a perfect time to
experiment with what my body is telling me. And I’ve been noticing that I am
hungry, it seems, ALL THE TIME. I wake up hungry. I eat breakfast. I start to
job hunt and before I know it, the distracting emptiness is in my stomach
again. I have lunch and then suddenly it seems I need something again. And
sometimes I even feel hungry going to bed. I haven’t always been able to obey
my hunger- in that I’ve gone home first to eat due to cost, but I don’t
remember being this hungry in Sydney. I guess food was in my face there, and I
was not listening to my body.
My start weight at the beginning of
this week was 104kg and today is 103.5kg - 500g loss.
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