My Mission Today.

[FatFreeMe]

Maybe I should be posting this is the Confession booth, I'm not even sure why I'm telling anyone! Last night, I made a TOTAL PIG of myself. I had supper with hubby and walked my dog for about half an hour. Then Hubby and my son were both out, which left me totally alone, and that NEVER happens. My comp has been in the shop for almost a week, I spend a lot of time on it in the evening. There was no good movies or anything on TV. I tried to pick up my book several times, and ended up putting it back down every few minutes. I tried to pick up a catalogue even, thought I could kill some time, leafing through that! I was very restless. Well, about 9:00, I ended rifling through the kitchen cupboards, and found some leftover SourCream and green onion chips my son had left there. I scarfed down HANDFULS of those. Headed straight to the stash of little Chocolate easter eggs hubby has in the living room, must have eaten about a dozen of those. Later I was thinking 'What the hell just happened here?" I felt BLINDSIDED. Would you believe i bought this stuff for the two of them WEEKS ago. I always knew where the forbidden stuff was sitting, and the last two months of LC'ing, this stuff hasn't bothered me. I haven't been tempted by it. The only thing I can think of was how I was so restless, and bored. So, my mission this morning.. Im drinking green tea and water till I float, to see if that helps 'flush' me out. I had a 'good breakfast' at home, and brought a snack to work, so I won't be tempted when I go home for lunch. I'm still scratching my head, thinking what the heck was up with that!?? Anyone else have a binge like this? For me it was really out of the blue. I've been so good since I got home from Mexico, because I realize, that as TDC'ers we have a long road ahead of us, and cheating, planned or otherwise, just makes that road longer. I've already put it behind me, but I was just wondering if anyone else has these feelings of being blindsided after a binge. Do you see them coming? At least now, I have my guard up and won't let myself get bored like that again.

[SRabbit]

Boredom is a dangerous thing when you're trying to lose weight!!!

We are so used to eating first and thinking afterwards---it has happened to me too, believe me.

It's like we're sleep eating or something.

I'm glad you realized what you did, though, as now you have something to remember if/when you are bored and tempted again. Really remember how you felt afterwards and how strict you're having to be now. That can be a deterrent the next time!!!

I get my knitting out, do a craft, something to keep myself busy. I try to have enough going on in my life that I'm not in a position to be bored. I'm moving in the next two months, and I'm actually happy about the packing and everything because I know it will keep me very busy and I can't snack when I'm going through old boxes!!!

Have a great green tea day, and be happy you still came here and posted and are getting back on plan!!

[Greenwitch]

Well, I think there is something interesting happening there. You may have had your night of over indulgence, but the thing to really be happy about is that you are loooking at this and wondering what exactly happened and perhaps how you (and all of us) could prevent this kind of thing from happening. We get bored, or something triggers a craving attack and (now this is only me for me personally) one trigger sets off a binge sometimes. I'm like that with potato chips. Eat one and I dive head first into the bag, like a heroin addict or something. I don't know, it's odd. I'm getting a little too reflective here, I guess.

Anyway, it was one part of a day, you're moving on, and you're human. It's no reflection on you as being good or bad on your diet. It was what it was, and it's just time to move on from it.

I can't live in a house with potatochips either! LOL!

[saucywench]

I to have had this same experience...and now knowing that boredom is my trigger I simply leave the house if at all possible...sometimes a 5 minute change of scenery works..awareness is key and picking ones self right back up the next day...feeling guilt and bashing yourself in the head mentally doesnt help..figure out your trigger and what happened and then know how to handle it next time..Learn from this and it will have been a great lesson!!