Greetings Judy,
I thought I was prepared before surgery for the ways I used food to deal with stress and emotions (I used to 'self-medicate' using food), but it wasn't until my first week back at work when it really hit me that after a particularly stressful day at work I couldn't go home and 'eat' my stress. Even though I wasn't hungary, just out of habit, I immediately thought of stopping for a couple of doughnuts...even though I knew I couldn't/wouldn't eat them and didn't really want them...it was just habit.
I am definitely using this time to put food in it's proper place...and put in place and reinforce the eating habits (three meals a day, no snacking, no grazing) that I hope to be the healthy eating habits I will have for the rest of my life.
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~Michele
Surgery 10/07/08
Highest-at start of 10 day pre surgery liquid diet / Day of Surgery / Current / Goal
280 / 267 / 142 / 125
ONDERLAND March 15, 2009
Use it UP, Wear it OUT, Make it DO or Do WITHOUT.*
*(popular saying during the great depression)
Weight Loss so Far= 138 Pounds
Goal #1 -Weigh 195 -REACHED on April 3, 2009
Goal #2 -Weigh 180 -(Century Club)- May 15, 2009
Goal #3 -Weigh 150 -October 1, 2009
Goal #4 -Weigh 140
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