Thinner Tastes Better~ Know Your Eating Print Part II

Sep 12, 2010

The Great Lie:
< " Perhaps the greatest threat to maintaining control over trigger foods is the phrase that I call the Great Lie of Dieting: "I'll just have a little!" " (p.46)
I have totally fallen for that one again and again. No more!

< "You can't control a trigger food with logic alone. Taste buds have a memory and power all their own. Once they get a taste of a trigger food, the physiological reaction isn't "Delicious Thank you, that was enough." It's "Quick! Get me some more!" That sall taste triggers a desire for more." (p.47)
This is me with snacky-junky carbs during late afternoon and night time grazing! As well as what I use to be with sweets.

< "The next time you are tempted to try "just a little"...use this sentence. Take a deep breath, turn your eyes and thinking on that trigger food and tell yourself: "I don't take the first little taste, I don't begin. I don't have any problem.!" " (p.47)
This is my new mantra!

< "Control is jut like a muscle - the more you exercise it by saying "No, thank you. the stronger you become and the easier it becomes to ay "No, thank you" in the future." (p. 48)
I have been doing this since my surgery. Thankfully my control muscle has gained strength daily since then! I went out to eat at red lobester with the hubby and totally resisted the yummy cheee biscuits. I even resisted getting a big pizza for pizza movie night and had just ONE personal pizza that took me all evening to eat! lol So good choices are being made the stronger my control gets.

Trigger Behaviors:
This is to help idenify which behaviors are most likely contributing to you being fat.
Mine were all pretty average (on his rating scale). My highest was the picker behavior.

< "More people have gained weight from what they eat before, after, and in between meals than from what they consume at the meal itself." (p.52)
I know it's what made me fat! Of course the HUGE portions I was eating as well contributed to my obesity. I know I could eat as much if not more then my husband, hence why I weighed more then he did! 

< "Don't eat while watching television, or reading a book, or trying to finish that report. Prowlers tend to eat whiout awareness so when you do eat, enjoy it!" (p.54)
This is a HUGE issue of mine! I do not LIKE to sit at the table and just eat. I'd rather not eat if I have to sit and focus on just eating. It's boring to me! I can't stand it. I have gotten so use to eating while with family or in front of the computer/t.v. that to sit (since the kids are in school now) alone at the table and eat feels like it takes FOREVER and is horrible experiance for me. I'm thinking perhaps playing some classical music while eating might help. Or listening to my affirmations. Something relaxing or positive might help change the experiance.

< "Cooks tend to do modst of their overeating at home where foods are convenient, witnesses few.." (boldness added by me)(p. 58)
This is me! The last part was me until surgery! And the old habits of eating at night when no one could see or judge me started during my first marriage. Of course my ex and I LOVED to eat and boy did we eat!  But the eating alone and the drive through meals! Sheesh! I shudder now to think of just how much 'secret' eating I did. Of course being FAT showed the wolrd just how much I was eating. I wasn't fooling myself or anyone else, and sadly it took a horrible effect on my body.

< "Women who work in the home are often at high risk in the late afternoon - between the hours of 3pm and 6pm." (p.59)
That's my prime grazing time. I find myself totally in a snacking mood when 3 or 4pm hits. I don't know if it's better to have a good nutritious snack or to ignore it and be strong and just say "No, thank you"

< "...the problem with trigger situations is not the situations themselves, it's your reaction to them." (p. 59)

Trigger Emotions:
I'm not an emtional eater (I only scored 2 on his scale), but I felt that the following was very insightful.

< " Instead of coping with painful or difficult emotions, they use food as a panacea. They become Food Therapists." (p. 60)

< "...you will see that you are not out of control with food in general, but only with a few select foods, in very specificsituations." (p.64)
Thankfully those trigger foods of my pre-WLS days are out of my house and now to deal with those trigger times.

< "Cooks who thought they were hopeless binge eaters discovered that they were really at risk in only one area -- the kitchen of their own homes." (p.65)
This is true of me. I need to exhert more control when in my kitchen and nibbling while cooking! 

The next section is "Define Your Personal Thin" I'm eager to get reading on this! 
We all who have had WLS of course want to be healthy, and I think most of us want to be thin! But, just what is that precisely?? I mean a number on the scale that perhaps many of us have not weighed in years, if ever?? Some super model weight that even a super model shouldn't weigh? I'm hoping this next section will help me to define my own personal goal and see if it's truly accurate for me!

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