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Originally Posted by LisaM
Our addiction was to how it felt to overuse food, either through sheer amounts or through the bugaboo of sugary/salty carbohydrates, almost always mixed with fats. I've never seen anyone come on here and say "I was addicted to protein." Just doesn't happen...
What I'm trying to say is that, if you feel you must look at it like fatty/salty/sugared carbs are the dragon and you are the dragonslayer, that's understandable. But by investing all that emotion (love it, hate it, still emotion) and the energy it takes to avoid it (not watching food porn), you're still giving food the power to reshape your life (and your butt, incidentally).
It's not a matter of willpower--"I will not eat a Turtle today!" It's a matter of "I don't need it, so there's no reason to eat it." Calm, serene, shrugging reaction. Oh, and "Move on, all you people that are watching me to see if I'm going to gain the weight back, there's nothing to see here." Not exciting, not some epic battle, just "No, thanks."
Make sense?
The ability to take or leave food is what I strive to get to on a daily basis. I don't actually get there every single day, week, month and year. But every time I get to that place in my head, it gets a little easier to get there the next time, and the next. It's a journey, baby, not just a destination.
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Lisa,
This is SO right on.
I have been finding that its the bad habits of 1.) mindless eating and 2.) USING the food to feel good (as you put it, how it FEELS to use the food).
So recently to get on track again, I have been
trying to use that feeling of being able to walk away (when I was in the honeymoon phase),
DO WE REMEMBER THIS???? We need to remember that feeling and bring it back
...because feeling like the food is not a temptation is SOOOO empowering and helps breeds my success. And then giving in to any mindless eating or using the food to self-sooth, is what makes me move backwards.