I love to eat.
I spend most of my day either eating or thinking about eating.
Perhaps I am addicted to food. Maybe I've been thinking about my diet/eating habits in the wrong ways. Maybe I should treat it like an addiction.
For the record, I come from a line of addicts on one side of the family tree and I have flirted with alcohol and drugs and other things equally bad; but at a young age I told myself I wouldn't become an alcoholic/pot head/etc and managed to stop doing those things when it got a little too out of control.
But here I am, addicted to food. Unable to stop myself. Unable to get this under control.
And that is how I will think about this. It's not just a physical change I am trying to achieve but a psychological one as well. If I want to change the outside, I need to change the inside too.
Today I got an e-mail from livestrong (a website I have loved since my sister-in-law, Jenise, told me about it). Instead of deleting the e-mail right away (I love the website, but don't have a whole lot of time to read all the e-mails) I decided to go to the article it suggested, and was (and still am) really inspired to make this change happen.
I'm pretty sure that this is my problem, too, and has been for a long time. But just because it is hard for us doesn't mean that it's impossible! I think we can both reach our goals if we try hard enough!
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