my emotion awareness day
Feeling sad about some personal life stuff and I am facing one meal of emotional eating head on (with peace) realising that I do not want it to continue. The portions were fine, but for health reasons I need to not chose poorly. No matter what B.S. stress is going on, IT IS SO NOT WORTH screwing myself over. I am better than this! I deserve better then this! I just need to be a little thoughtful of my choices today. I am calling it Emotion Awareness Day. When I feel a negative emotion today, I am going to write it down and think for a minute of two about it. How will I just identify the emotion when I never seem to any other time? I will be wanting dairy or chocolate! This I know of me. Anyways, when I want, I will just identify the emotion I am really feeling, feel that emotion, be uncomfortable for a few minutes and deal. I am strong and I have lost about 10 pounds of those that I gained. I am not about to start up again with some old bad habits. Nothing and nobody is worth me emotional eating. Those food choices will only screw with my body chemisty and I want to feel hot, sexy, awesome and beautiful. Poor choices will cause me to go inward and I desire a more extroverted me. I will post any emotions and how I dealt with them here. This is me, being proactive today. I would rather be here for me, then silent with myself. I am afraid to not be here at Buddyslim today. So, I am here, hopeful and proactive.
*smiles*March 26, 2009.
*signed* Me - Jennifer L. P.
Remember: I love myself today!
Today I felt the following emotions and this is how I dealt with them: (Hey, just writing this, I could be hyper-aware and not WANT, well it could happen. :):) But I am hoping forethought is my insurance. I have come so far in my thinking. Not being so restricted and really respecting the needs of my body. I have actually lost weight by exercising a little less, eating mostly whole foods and respecting my hunger and satisfaction. I WILL learn to deal with the uncommon and unpleasant emotions damnit….lol *said in a cutsy fun way* UPDATE:
Frustration, anger….. Communicated with David and learned somethings that are good for both of us.
Low self worth and disbelief in myself… Cried. Seriously, so much of the pain seems to have left my body. It was a minute or two and I feel renewed. No desire to eat anything and well I was not hungry, so that worked well…lol Sometimes crying can make you feel drained, well this was completely the opposite. *feeling content and energized*… yeh it was not that easy! Those feelings came up again, but it was funny, because when I thought about it, I realised, I was actually hungry. So had a granola bar and worked out. I needed them both. Feel good!
Feeling stuck in a momentary rut…. So I stepped into life and gave it my best! Had a nice stirfry for lunch, worked out, got some fresh air and studied.
Emotional day as I thought it would be, BUT, mostly things are good. No EE. *hugs to you* ……………………………Will be back later tonight to read buddy blogs! 
Great blog! We all face that emotional eating dragon, but you’ve got your sword out, ready to slay!
It sounds like a really good plan. Check in, feel, let go or accept! The chocolate doesn’t take the pain away, it just distracts you from it.
If you have to distract yourself, try exercise!
Thanks qtgirl.
Just need to say, I can not change my profile OR check my email. SOMETHING is very glitchy with my Buddyslim profile today. Oh well, I guess. I can not even write Dr. Marc. C’est la vie.
Emotion Awareness Day…I like that..everyone should take a day out to just sit with and really FEEL the emotions.
Love the blog, love the plan. You will learn so much about yourself as you journal your emotions. Something that works for me (when I remember to apply the knowledge LOL) is when I am emotional (for whatever reason) and am reaching for something high in calories and fat and very low in nutrition to feed my emotions, not my physical hunger, I ask myself - how is this going to change what’s going on? Answer - it’s not. I can most of the time walk away from it then.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK - YOU’RE WORTH IT.
Great blog.
I aplaud you for you expressing yourself. And yes the stress and what not is soooo NOT worth messing anything up. I am really glad you wrote this. We all need to realize we are better than that and we can fight those emotional days without binging!
I hope things get better for you!
*hugs*
You did well with one one! Great job and hope it made you feel better! It is great to in tune with your feelings and thoughts.
“you did well with THIS one”
So, at the end of the day, I had a wonderful piece of dark chocolate and I did top my homemade pinto bean soup (I tested really well for pinto beans because I rarely have those) with a little cheddar and it was SO good. That was 6ish days since not having dairy, so needless to say, after that cheese, I felt great! And I appreciated it SO MUCH more.
So, moral for the day, when aware of what could be, it is becoming difficult to flub up. The key comes in the those coming days, when thing become busier and it goes into the back of my head. Well I want healthy behaviors and a me that is forgiving. This I can do.
Thanks ladies for the comments.
All right, so Friday, ate a high calories supper which was yummy before the Beyonce concert and then stayed up until 2PM to watch my Oilers WIN. YAH! Well let’s be serious I was napping through out, but I saw the end. lol LOVE PVR!
Some hints of binging, but I was aware it was all good. Ate to feed my body well for the most part. Very good for a Friday!