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Hooray! I walked 2 days this week and did my weights 2 days, too. Tomorrow we'll be up at "our" lake and plan to hike a dune. I feel as if my knee is really healing up well, although, I still cannot put direct pressure on it. I cannot put my weight on it when bent. So, next week, I will try to do a little more and see how that goes.
As for my eating, I kept a journal every day this week. I discovered that I am more of a visual person than I even knew. Each morning I go over the previous day and quite unpremeditated, I found myself marking the day's food with a smiley face or a frowning face. I also circled the vegetables and fruits. It makes me happy to see lots of circles and smiles!
I had another good talk with my health coach. She helped me to see that I am a social eater who "caves" when others around me are eating things I know are not the best choices for me. I still have to figure out what all this means. I do not think this means that I can never have food that I enjoy. But, what it does mean is that I am not going to look to others for my strength to say no, if I really need to say no.
For example, recently we were eating out with family. The end came and I was perfectly content to skip dessert. There was cake at home and I was planning to have a very small piece. Well, the waitress brought a cupcake to the birthday boy and before I knew it, everyone was ordering cupcakes. I wanted to remain strong, but caved. And then I had more cake at home because I was defeated at that point.
I can see two negative thinking issues with the previous situation. I let others have the control and I gave up. I should have remained firm with my original decision.
Anyway, my coach says I need to take the focus off of food when in a social situation and focus on the people. I also need to think ahead to how making certain choices will affect how I feel afterwards. Do I want to feel strong and in control or guilt ridden and weak?
She wants me to focus on the positives of my week, which were plenty. I enjoyed a green smoothie every day. This pushed my veggie intake up to where it needs to be. I also got back to moving. Yay!
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Sounds like you are working through things well. The Lord showed me recently too about enjoying others more than food. Fun how He showed us both that. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you were able to get back to exercising. As you get used to not eating something everyone else eats it won't be such a struggle. Well, it isn't for me anymore. Sometimes I'll just sniff the cake or whatever and that's enough.
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