Week 2 admit that you have a problem (food or any other problem you have)

" When we chose to admit to ourselves that we had a problem and we become willing to seek support and help, we gave that hope a place to grow."  I love this line from the Addiction Recovery manual.  I guess that is what this blog is to me.  It is a place for me to learn and grow while I share my story with others.  I do want people to know that I am not writing this as an accountability.  I love to talk and so I am hoping that talking about my addiction and sharing with you what I learned over a week will help others too.  

So my first week at acknowledging my food addiction was an eye opener.  There were moments that I would forget what I was doing and eat something that I didn't need.  I would then think "what are you doing"  One very positive note for my week was worked really hard to not over eat.  I stopped when I was full.  That is really big for me.  Finishing the food on my plate was something that I always had to do. This week I tried to put less on my plate and not go back for seconds.  

I did have a break through when a friend contacted me about my first blog, he asked me why do I want to lose weight? I said to get healthier.  really to  me losing weight would be a huge plus.  If I can get healthy at this point losing weight would be a bonus.  Now I know that a side effect of getting healthy is losing weight so that would make it a win win situation.  So back to my conversation with my friend.  He gave me some things to think about and I asked him if I could share what he said to me and he said yes.  So this is some information from my friend Kenyon Curtis:
First call food what it is?  Nutrition, Addiction, or Entertainment.  
I really thought this was interesting because Fruit can be a Nutrition unless you put it in a yummy salad with cream cheese and all sorts of other stuff then it might be an addiction.  If you go to a party and eat a cupcake that might be entertainment until you eat two cupcakes and use a chocolate fountain.  Then you are heading into an addiction.  So really I need to learn at what point does my Nutrition or Entertainment turn into my addiction.  These thoughts went through my head a lot this week.  So this week I will be really focusing on calling my food what it is!
The next thing my friend talked to me about was  "ask your food where it came from and what it is made of".  This  was harder for me to think about.  So is my food processed or fresh?  I know that when I eat I just want to eat I really don't want to think about where it comes from. Although I really should think about what things I am putting in my body.  I know Fresh is really the best thing to put in my body so now I need to just figure out how to do that all the time.  

The last thing I realized when I was talking to my friend was last January I made a decision to lose weight and for 6 months I did great.  I was following a plan and I loved how I felt.  When I went on my vacation I made a new decision......I decided that eating healthy was no longer what I wanted to do.  I changed my decision without even really thinking about it.  I was taking the easy way out.  Just eat what I want when I want no matter how yucky I felt.  When I came back home from the trip I wanted to get back to eating right.  I really thought I did.  The only problem is when I changed my thinking I remember saying "I am done"  I shifted my thinking to not wanting to get back to work.  So the question is this what do I do now?  How do I get that drive back?  I now have to decide again to Call food what it is and what do I want for my health?  I know I can do anything I set my mind to.  I know being healthy will be a long process that I will take one step at a time.  

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