Well I thought I better get back into these and get my shite sorted!
So today we talked about:
Balance your (food) checkbook
Self-monitoring of a behavior can be used at times when you're not sure how you're doing, and at times when you want the behavior to improve.
Self-monitoring such as keeping a record of your exercise can let you know quickly how you're doing, and when the record shows that your exercise is increasing, you'll be encouraged to keep it up. Some people find that specific self-monitoring forms make it easier, while others prefer to use their own recording system.
While daily weight is not encouraged, weighing weekly will help you monitor your journey and regular monitoring of your weight will be essential to help you maintain your lower weight. Today's weight is not a true measure of how well you followed your program yesterday, because your body's water weight will change much more from day to day than will your fat weight, and water changes are often the result of things that have nothing to do with your weight-management efforts, When maintaining weight you can do this once a month. Obsessing on the scales can put you on a downward roller coaster ride so don’t obsess over the scales.
Stress eating
Statistics tell us that we eat according to our moods, for example when angry you will turn to food that you bite into and need to chew, when feeling sad you will go for soft creamy types of food. This may explain why so many of us turn to chocolate when feeling upset. When life is really busy we tend to eat on the run, with little interest in what is eaten for the day, all we care about is as long as we're not hungry, who cares or even thinks about nutritional value when you are on a dead line. To avoid relying on junk food to fill you up you need to be a little organised. Here are some ideas:
1. Shop ahead so that you have food in the freezer and pantry.
2. Plan the meals ahead for the week and share the cooking amongst the family.
3. Get someone to clean the house, an ironing lady will make life easier too or better still learn to DELEGATE. Make everyone no matter what age responsible for jobs around the house e.g washing up, buying the milk, feeding the pets, shopping and let others be the free taxi service.
4. It is so important to make time for yourself, how can you give to others if you are not giving to yourself.
5. Prioritise your day by starting with the things that you HAVE to do, if you don't get all the jobs done today remember there is always tomorrow.
6. If you are a busy bee then stop for a moment and read the “10 way to reduce stress in your life”, learn to relax occasionally and remember to breathe, it will calm you down quickly and may help avoid you turning to food for a pick me up.
1. Forget being perfect or even trying to be
2. Don't try to be all things to all people
3. Leave things undone that ought to be undone
4. Don't spread yourself too thin
5. Learn to say no
6. Schedule time for yourself
7. Switch off and do nothing regularly
8. Be boring, untidy and unattractive at times
9. Never ever feel guilty
10. Don't be your own worst enemy, but instead your own best friend.
Lots and lots of great advise there I do believe and wish I had read it before my little melt down!
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