Why Healthy Eating Makes A Difference
If you’ve read anything about me and food in the past few weeks – geez, in the time you’ve been reading me period – you might have noticed I am an emotional eater.
When it was hysterectomy time, I ate (and drank. Oh, I miss drinking. It’s been MONTHS.), when I started feeling the high’s and low’s of bipolar disorder, I ate. Then I’d work out and lose it. Then I’d stress and eat again.
Well I’ve never eaten like I’ve eaten like this time.
This operation I’m having next Tuesday is known to be one of the most painful out there. I’m scared but it’s necessary and four weeks of agony is worth a lifetime of positive results (if I get any).
What I’ve been doing is called emotional eating. We all do it. We eat when we’re bored (I don’t know how to be bored, I just start writing lol) or we eat for no reason at all.
If you’ve ever been like me and been the type who loves crappy food but then took the initiative to change your life and eat healthy, you found that while making that change can be extremely hard, it also makes you feel better over time.
Recently, I started out on a two week protein cleanse followed by allowing only good carbs to enter and I ended up losing about 25 pounds. Since then, I’ve been eating whatever I want and at the doctor today found I only gained about three but when I thought about it, it made sense.
I’m a nervous pooper. 
Everything I’ve been eating has been bad but I’m so scared that I end up not eating a lot and when I do eat it’s right out of the ice cream container and my tummy hurts after.
Seems like whenever I eat crap my tummy hurts. Ha. That right there is the statement we all need to think about. We eat like crap, we feel like crap and eventually, we look like crap.
I may be writing this as I eat a giant bowl of Frosted Flakes, and that’s because I’m admitting I have a problem. My excuse? I’m going to be eating nothing but liquids for four weeks, so I know I’ll lose weight. It’s always something. It’s always going to be something.
I guess what I’m saying is that maybe we should try to find other ways to vent our emotions. Don’t deny our indulgences, but go easy on them (the bowl of Frosted Flakes is gone lol). If you need a friend to lean on, head on over to The Wii Mommies and read the posts and blogs and check out the groups we have and together, we can get fit and healthy!
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Doing crunches today. HA! I crack myself up. Donut?
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March 5th, 2010 at 4:18 am
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We shop at Trader Joe’s, so there’s rarely anything naughty to snack on. I’m an emotional eater, too — I will cover anything in cheese to make myself feel better. Organic, part skim cheese… but it melts just the same on organic spinach and flax seed tortilla chips.
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Hang in there! Everything’s gonna be ok. I eat for no reason! Although I agree with you, I am not sure I know how to be bored either!
Look at the bright side, you get to pig out this week because you KNOW you will lose it again
I hope everything goes smoothly – Kitty
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Great post. Scott Smith at motivationtomove.com says to eat how you want to feel. If you can manage to do that, you’ll step away from the “bad stuff”. You certainly get a pass this time though. I’d be eating cheeseburgers and shakes like a ravenous wolf.
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Amazing how I can always find a way to eat…even after major dental work. Gotta love ice-cream – it goes down when nothing else will..
I’m rethinking that “I’m going to lose 10 lbs after the dental work” concept. Haven’t lost an ounce…
Wii Fit – here I come…
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sending you all kinds of love this week…I’d send you strength, but you’ve already proven that you possess more than your share of that!
Thinking of you!
I am an emotional eater…and a bored eater…and a “I am tired and need to stay awake at work so lets eat” eater. I need to work on that.
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Oh how I applaud your honesty! I’ve been in the same boat as you (eating emotionally) so many times before…and now have to pay the price of losing 40 pounds. But I’m taking it 10 pounds at a time…and hiding the Cheez-Its. Those darned Cheez-Its…they are my nemesis right now…and Snyders pretzel bits. AGH!
So glad I came across your blog.
I do that too. Emotional Eating. It always makes me feel better for a little bit, but then it makes me feel even worse than before I started. I just can’t seem to stop myself. It’s worse than the addiction I had to cigarettes for a few years. I was able to quit smoking. I can’t quit overeating.
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I got you. I have always used food to self medicate. If I was not feeling good for some reason, I would go to food to try to make myself feel better. Wishing you the best.
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