I feel so so bad about it now. Sigh. I do not know how to recover mentally from this. I just beat myself up so badly when I do things like this. Blech.
How do you all handle the upsets in your eating plan?
Do you ever just feel so disgusted when you goof up? I sure do.
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Missy, this is why I find making a commitment to what I am going to eat prior to the meal is helpful. Plus, use your journal. If you find your journal shows you are getting hungry, or doing what I call "panic eating" at certain times of the day you may need to adjust what you are eating. Maybe have a strawberry smoothie prepared or another low cal comfort food prepared for those times.
Look for patterns in your journal. It has helped me.
I goof up all the time, but I have to look at it as my body is trying to tell me something. I am trying to look at why I want to eat. If I'm hungry, I'll think about "can I wait", if I'm lonely, I'll go on line, if it's anxiety, I'll clean house, if I'm bored I'll go on line or watch TV. At this phase going on line seems to help me, but I need to substitute another positive behavior for going on line. I should be quilting, :hunf: .
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is the answers are there, we just don't have them all yet. But we will.
I find the hardest person to forgive in life is myself. I need to afford the same consideration and empathy to me as I do to others.
Forgive yourself and today is a new day.