Mind Tricks

I was going to have a home office day today and those days are always very good for my health in many ways. I usually go for a run before sitting down for work, I eat well and in a healthy way and I stick to the set times (vs snacking all the time). Well, my office day was cancelled and I was called in to work, but surprisingly enough, it did not de-rail me today.

Going to work, working hard, solving conflicts, meeting people is all what I have chosen to do for a living and I enjoy it. However, it is relatively challenging and sometimes downright stressful. Today I made a very conscious effort to to keep my calm and when I came home and basically kept repeating a mantra in my head. The mantra went like this: Work is work, work is work, home is home, home is home, food is food, food is food. I'm trying to get rid of my existing mantra that goes like this: "Work is everything, home is where I think about work, food is a painkiller"  .

Today my new mantra worked, I have had a totally balanced day. A good portion of work, family life, the internet surfing, exercise, eating right, drinking lots of water. Today, today I'm almost willing to admit that this kind of balance in life and peace in my mind is more important than losing  weight... The weight today, by the way, 79.

Working and Emotional Eating

Working and Emotional Eating

...are absolutely linked. If I come home after six pm it's almost for sure I have a great need to binge. Do I think eating a lot somehow makes my evening longer? Or is it stress release?

Today I have a home office day like the day before yesterday, and I'm positive eating will take a side track again. When I go to work, I don't think about food and often I also don't eat during the work day, but when I come home all hell breaks loose. I'm tired of this. I want some balance, please!

Lots and lots of new snow out there again. Looks good and makes the world light. But I miss the blue sky, it's been cloudy or very cloudy since Christmas. However, I'll go out to do my cardio before working at the computer. Fresh air will be a good start.

The weight today 80. Good, down a kilo from Monday. Nothing new yet, because during the Fall my steady weight was down to 78 for a long time. I'll go hurray and claim I'm back to business when I go under 78.

It's not Fat, it's a Way of Behaving

My wall, my wall of protection, my wall is not made of fat. I don't need the kilograms of fat around me to protect me. What I need is the emotional eating. Eating and drinking as a stress release, over-eating when I feel bad, eating the wrong stuff when I am disappointed, eating too much or sometimes too little when I'm not in control of a certain situation... Wow, I'm getting answers to my questions. What shall I do with the answers? What shall I do?