From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 52
As you work on identifying your needs, don’t get stuck by saying, “I can’t do anything about that!”
Right now, your task is to figure out exactly what is contributing to your emotional eating.
Here are my answers to the three questions at the end of the lesson.
1. Look back at the list of needs you made yesterday. Now add a list of deeper needs such as better self-esteem or more motivation.
Have my fitness level back, be stronger and more flexible
Confidence about future writing projects.
Better knowledge/ideas about how to market my books
Mental/emotional energy for my work
Improve my cooking and skills in my home
2. For each of these deeper needs, note the times when you use food to fix them.
When I feel discouraged about my body/weight, I eat more instead of working on it.
I’m aware that I’m eating to cope with aging and retirement.
When I’m feeling anxious about my work, I tend to start looking for cookies.
3. Choose one of those needs and create an action plan for taking care of it without food.
Discouragement about work and my writing.
Plan- Review things that have worked in the past.
Remind myself of my dreams with doing more writing and presentations.