I was listening to the radio this week and they came out with this "mind blowing" study about weight loss and said that people tend to be thinner if they don't have food around them all the time. No shit! You're saying that if I just don't have food around me, I won't eat it (because the food isn't around me) and then I will be skinny? By Golly! This totally ended my struggle.
Not really, but there is something to be said about it. I noticed today at work that I brought a 2 point ww buffalo pretzels snack and a banana. I ate both within the first half hour of work because they were sitting within arms length and I couldn't stop myself. Not that I really love bananas but I felt the urge to eat them because I knew I would eat them eventually and I also knew that I had put them in my tracker already.
Lets just say, in about 2 hours I'm going to be hungry again and I will wish I had those snacks I brought for myself. Don't worry, I won't be hungry for long- I will find something. I'm resourceful like that.
This week I stayed the exact same at my weekly weigh in. I call that a success, not because I stayed the same but because I didn't punish myself for it. Formerly, I would have been so upset with myself that I would have eaten my emotional self into a drunken food stupor and started the cycle of shame. I didn't do that this time, so lets celebrate that. Not with food.
I am however a little nervous about Mother's Day- especially because I heard my Mom on the phone with Deerfields Bakery yesterday ordering cakes for the occasion. Hopefully I can stay strong because I'm really hoping for Monday to be the 30 pounds down milestone.
