eat less

Okay, we had a little food revelry with Halloween, but that is over and done with. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.

Also~

Less is More: I am going to eat more vegetables.

Eating less will give me the following outcomes:

1. Makes me achieve a healthier weight.
2. Forces me to eat slowly and have conversations, which is healthier (physically and emotionally), because I want my meal to still take the same amount of time (or longer).
3. Forces me to skip the empty-calorie foods, which are unhealthy.
4. Saves me calories that I don’t have to burn up (thus saving me time – BONUS!).
5. Saves me money because a week’s worth of shopping makes more meals.
6. Saves me time preparing foods, because an entree that may have resulted in four large servings now becomes six.
7. Less food preparation generates less garbage over a week’s time.
8. Conditions my stomach to be satisfied with smaller meals, which is good when my choices and amounts are out of my control (such as when traveling or dining at someone else’s home).
9. Saves me time shopping for the exact right look to camouflage a bulky figure.
10. Aligns with my attitude of reduced consumption in all areas of my life.

This is not about deprivation or starvation. It’s about trimming the portions from my meals and snacks. I like the “eat less” goal because it’s a simple reminder I can tell myself as I serve my portions and to talk myself down from having something sweet at the end of a meal.

I always eat until the point that I’m so full my stomach hurts and I have to lie down. I don’t have a binge disorder, I just don’t control myself and I feel like I need to eat as much as I can in one sitting so I’m not hungry later. It’s horrible! So I want to start eating less and to do this I’m going to try drinking a lot of water in between and during meals, chewing my food slowly, and ordering smaller versions of things. I always get the largest because I’m so convinced it’s the only thing that will fill me, and I usually never end up even finishing the large!

Who needs extra kilos?

So far so good. To control my anxiety problems, I’ve been limiting what I’ve been eating. I’ve been feeling so ill whenever I eat, I’ve been sick most of the times. Yesterday I had 50 calories, not including the food I threw up by mistake.

Decided I’m just not going to eat much, because there’s no point if I keep throwing it up again.

I’m doing pretty well on this lately. I’ve been working on losing some weight, which has really made me think more about what I put into my mouth. Before eating something I shouldn’t/too much, I ask myself If it’s worth it. I figure that an extra cookie/serving of dinner/scoop of ice cream, whatever will taste good for about a minute, but after that I’ll have dumped down a bunch of extra calories for nothing. Also, I’ve been eating 6 small meals a day, which helps becasue I never get overly hungry.

Although this goal has been extremely difficult for me, I’m making excellent progress. I’m used of consistent snacking throughout the day, but I slowly cut back on that and now I find that I can make it through the day without any snacking. Better yet, I don’t make up for it during my actual meals. I won’t mark this goal as done yet, I will leave it up for a bit longer to make sure I stick with the plan!

I have a long way to go until I reach a weight that someone would call normal or healthy. Just looking at the way I have to go makes me unsecure and feeling hopeless.

In order to stop overeating, I had to become very conscious of what was setting me up to overeat. Was I eating too infrequently? Was I stressed? Why was I stressed? Was I tired and in need of more energy? Was I anxious or worried about something? I got really in tune with what was going on to make me want to overeat. Then I tried to solve that problem instead of turning to food to make it all better.

It honestly took me a good three years of practice before I could say I was no longer tempted to eat too much. But during those 3 years, it got easier and easier.

Good luck to you!

Camille McConnell
Author of Stop Overeating Today! 33 Tips That Will Change Your Life
http://www.stopovereatingtips.com
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