So...I'm Denise. Glad to have someone else to share this with.
I really need to lose weight and after putting on a lot of weight after babies, I have finally managed to lose 20 pounds. But I have been stuck at my current weight for more than a year.
Well, yesterday I met with a nutritionist and while it was a good meeting, what I mostly came away with was that I am eating too much. ack.
I am trying to lower my blood sugar and the best way for me to do that is to watch my carbs. I am not on a low carb diet, but I am supposed to try and not eat more than 45 grams of carbs per meal.
OMGOSH. Do these people know how much I LOVE pasta and rice?
I have such a love/hate relationship with food. I love it. And it hates me.
I find myself thinking about food...and what I want to eat. And what I can't eat. And how much I want to eat again.
Part of this is in my mind. I really use food to feel better when I am stressed, or sad, or happy, or awake. : ) And trying to change that relationship, but is so hard.
At the same time, if I don't spend some time thinking about food, and what and when and how I am going to eat, I find myself wanting to eat something easy and fast, which for me usually translates to something fattening.
I really feel like my challenge is to find some control in my life...and instead of letting the food control me...maybe I can control it for a change.
In addition to dieting I have started a financial fast, and am trying to go 30 days without spending any money (I have allowed myself an exception for produce, dairy, bread, and daipers.)
It isn't about willpower so much as it is about not letting myself by controlled by these things.
How do you change your relationship with food? How do you make about nutrition and health? I guess because my relationship with food isn't healthy, I don't have a good understanding of how to go about this.
Thoughts?
2 comments:
For me, I think... it's be having the control... which is why I liked the moderation. Like you, I often think about yummy things I want to eat. I don't like a diet that rules them out, but I am able to moderate. Also, really ENJOYING the food while I eat it, rather inhaling it and wanting more. I find when I really close my eyes and TASTE the bacon I'm satisfied after just a few bites.
That works for me, but I know moderation's an issue for a lot of people.
I agree with everything you said. That is my biggest problem, and I wasn't like this until after I had my first baby. Before that, I didn't care so much about food. I often try to think what changed, and I think it was a matter of suddenly not having a job to go to every day, and being home and having food right there and eating out of boredom. Then it just developed into a monster.
For me, I have to make sure that foods I shouldn't eat are just plain not available to me at home. Otherwise, I am trying to involve myself in other things (hobbies, etc.) because I know I am not eating out of hunger.
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