Last night at work I was sitting on break with some co-workers who also will be doing the biggest loser and we got talking about weight. This will be the second year my company will be doing the event and co-workers who did lose weight last year gained back between half or more than all the weight they lost. I know of only one person who went on to lose more weight and has kept off the weight for a year. That's not good statistics! I ask myself why? I believe a lot has to do with our life. Am I stressing, feeling sick, worried about money, worried with the new findings on the news that groceries & gas prices are going up? All of these issues and more add to, food is our comfort. I feel good when I eat. I eat when I'm hungry and not hungry, I turn to food like a great comforting friend.
I have been sick for almost a week. I first started with the flu and now have a head cold, dry cough and sinus draining. I feel like crap! Don't they always say, "Feed A Cold" Well I'm going to try and just eat some chicken noodle soup with crackers nothing more, no ice-cream that would soothe all the way down. I also have a thin husband who eats what he wants when he wants and that doesn't help. p.s. He just ate a big bowl of ice-cream. So I have made process today and admit that food is my comfort. Now I need to figure out a new comfort that will not live on my body and hang all over me. By the way I did eat two little peanut butter cups, after all I don't weigh in until Thursday.
I have learned that there will always be stress and if we always comfort with food its a lifelong habit that leads to ending up in morbid obesity (where I am now) I'm learning new ways to comfort myself through hobbies and exercise. Find something better to comfort yourself with and I think you'll be the one still maintaining your weight and cheering on the other work Biggest Loser contestants. Good luck in your journey
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