On Saturday’s “On Writing a Weight Loss Blog” I suggested that the blogs I am most interested in reading are the ones where the blogger opens up about their feelings and describes various thought processes as they have success or are dealing with issues.
Groovybabe is one such blogger.
Yesterday she wrote a great post detailing her recent struggle. I really liked this quote which I have never thought of before:
I think people with eating issues are one of two types: either scared of feeling full or scared of feeling hungry. I fall into the latter category and if I use my calories up early in the day I panic about going the rest of the night without being able to eat and usually end up binging.
It’s a great point! Me, I’m actually both. Or at least I used to be! I used to eat whenever I felt even remotely hungry so that I wouldn’t have the feeling of being hungry (which I have learned now probably just meant I was thirsty) and then when I would overeat and be full I would feel terrible and tell myself to never let it happen again because I was scared of what the overeating and feeling full to burst was doing to me. It might sound crazy but now I actually like the feeling of being a little hungry, and I have been trying to address it by having a drink of water and seeing where that takes me. Usually it’s enough. If not I grab a pluot or something.
today I woke up and my body feels really crap from eating so much junk yesterday
It’s amazing how easy it can be to disconnect the late night binging on junk food with the crappy feeling in the morning when you aren’t thinking carefully about this stuff. For weeks prior to my diet I had got into the habit of having a bowl of ice cream with caramel sauce at around 11:00pm. And when I say a bowl I mean a big bowl - I would say 3 scoops but these were not normal rounded scoops these were super scoops - probably 5 or 6 real scoops. Wow, did this taste good. Really made me feel great.
Then every morning I would wake up feeling like crap.
Every time it happened I knew exactly what was causing it but then the next night I would do exactly the same thing. I suspect it’s a behavior similar to what a drug addict goes through if they are of sound enough mind to recognize the problems their behavior is causing. I recognized it but chose not to do anything about it.
I am done with the late night binging and no longer wake up feeling like crap. That’s a good thing.
Thanks Groovybabe for writing such an inspiring post.
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