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Hunger tip (RL)
Jun. 9th, 2011 10:09 amI went to the doctor earlier this week, and for the first time in years, everything was worse. Weight was up (UGH!) which unsurprisingly made everything else worse. While my weight loss had been slow nearly to the point of standstill, at least I hadn't been gaining, so this was a seriously unhappy thing.
My doctor is the best doctor ever, and she offered me lots of resources and options. Most of them aren't necessary though -- I'm not lacking in information (anyone who has net access has boundless information), I'm lacking in the willpower to act on it.
So, back to trying to adjust my eating. Yet again. Paying attention to what/how/when I eat, I found that I don't eat junk food because I'm craving it, I eat it because I'm hungry. I knew that years back I used to eat cookies/candy/whatever in place of a meal, but I thought I was passed that. Turns out, it just adjusted: I'd eat a "meal", but still be hungry so finish filling up on bad stuff. I put meal in quotes, and it doesn't fill me up, because of the lack of fruit/veggies. Last night's dinner was three small bites of potato and two small bites of meat (the part of the frozen dinner I was willing to eat), so it's no wonder I finished dinner still hungry!
But anyway, I'm semi-off the track here. I did a lot of reading, and I picked up a trick that works for me: Rating hunger on a scale of one to ten (ten being willing to eat your least favorite food). When hunger stops being binary, I feel less I'M HUNGRY SO I MUST EAT NOW NOW NOW.
Also, I made a discovery that everyone else probably knows: When in a salad covered with dressing, things basically taste alike. I don't like cucumbers, but I ate a few pieces just fine in a salad.
And lastly, the lesson of greek yogurt will continue on: I learned to like it, so who knows what other things I can learn to like. It takes people, what was it, eight or nine tries before food becomes "normal" to them? So maybe I can learn to like vegetables, too. (It's so depressing that I need to learn to like them. I envy people who were taught as kids to eat them.)
My doctor is the best doctor ever, and she offered me lots of resources and options. Most of them aren't necessary though -- I'm not lacking in information (anyone who has net access has boundless information), I'm lacking in the willpower to act on it.
So, back to trying to adjust my eating. Yet again. Paying attention to what/how/when I eat, I found that I don't eat junk food because I'm craving it, I eat it because I'm hungry. I knew that years back I used to eat cookies/candy/whatever in place of a meal, but I thought I was passed that. Turns out, it just adjusted: I'd eat a "meal", but still be hungry so finish filling up on bad stuff. I put meal in quotes, and it doesn't fill me up, because of the lack of fruit/veggies. Last night's dinner was three small bites of potato and two small bites of meat (the part of the frozen dinner I was willing to eat), so it's no wonder I finished dinner still hungry!
But anyway, I'm semi-off the track here. I did a lot of reading, and I picked up a trick that works for me: Rating hunger on a scale of one to ten (ten being willing to eat your least favorite food). When hunger stops being binary, I feel less I'M HUNGRY SO I MUST EAT NOW NOW NOW.
Also, I made a discovery that everyone else probably knows: When in a salad covered with dressing, things basically taste alike. I don't like cucumbers, but I ate a few pieces just fine in a salad.
And lastly, the lesson of greek yogurt will continue on: I learned to like it, so who knows what other things I can learn to like. It takes people, what was it, eight or nine tries before food becomes "normal" to them? So maybe I can learn to like vegetables, too. (It's so depressing that I need to learn to like them. I envy people who were taught as kids to eat them.)
