Archive for August 2009

First Things First

29. August 2009 by Patricia.


I struck up a conversation with a very slim young lady at the airport. We were both stranded passengers in a long line of stranded passengers trying to get to our destinations after our original flight was cancelled. It had already been a long day and most of us had not eaten lunch. As we chatted her stomach growled. She told me she was very hungry. I offered to hold her place while she went to get something to eat. Her response: I am too emotional to eat right now. I need to take care of my flight….. first things first. Wise words from a natural eater!

 

 

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Thin people don’t always eat when hungry

22. August 2009 by Patricia.


My flight is delayed. I’m sitting at the departure gate waiting to hear if our plane can be repaired. We already de-planed and passengers are restless.

 

A very slim young woman on her iPod sits across from me. She reaches into a packet of Twizzlers [red licorice], takes out a piece and begins munching. A short while later she pulls out another piece to eat, and then another.

 

Is she hungry? Or is she bored? I will surmise the latter. It occurs to me that thin people do eat when they’re not hungry.

 

 

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Being a good friend to yourself

15. August 2009 by Patricia.


Do you eat when you’re lonely or anxious? When you’re very angry does crunching down on potato chips feel good? After a stressful day does sitting in front of the T.V. with pizza and a big bowl of popcorn help restore your balance?

 

If you do any of these things, know that you are being a good friend to yourself because you are taking care of yourself in the best way you know how. Never doubt that.

 

If you want to be a better friend to yourself, simply becoming aware of your choice to use food to help with uncomfortable or negative emotions when you aren’t hungry is a great first step on your journey to diet freedom.

 

 

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Could this be freedom?

8. August 2009 by Patricia.


Packing for a flight brings up choices: Too dressy? Too casual? Should I take the blue to go with the white or the black to go with the red? And it can trigger mind chatter. What if I pick something that doesn’t fit the occasion? Will there be an item I wished I’d brought?

 

When I catch myself right in the throes of such thoughts, I STOP all action to refocus on what’s real. It doesn’t matter what I take or what I wear. In five years time I won’t remember and, frankly, no one else really cares!

 

What makes this even more interesting is that as I walked to my gate I saw a bearded man dressed in what looked like a toga with bare legs and sandals, and no luggage.

 

One outfit, no luggage – one definition of freedom.

 

 

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Action or non-action when you hit the plateau?

1. August 2009 by Patricia.


A recent article in a weight loss magazine suggested that if you hit a plateau, you need tips and tricks to get you back on track. Is hitting a plateau bad? Should we judge it? Should we rush to fix it so that we are losing weight again?

 

Perhaps when we hit a plateau it’s time to go with the flow, trust that our hard work will pay off eventually and allow our body, and the scale, to catch up. The answer to healthy weight loss is not always in the “action” but sometimes in the “non-action.”

 

 

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