Tuesday, September 4, 2007

One small step back, one HUGE step forward

Well, yesterday I was actually doing very well with my eating. I had a healthy breakfast (high fiber cereal, skim milk, vitamin) and a healthy lunch (reduced-fat peanut butter and low-sugar jelly on whole wheat bread) and even did well when we went to grill out with my future in laws (fat free hot dog, wheat bun, vegetarian baked beans, and I even brought a big green salad for everyone, with light dressing). A few hours afterward though, I felt very hungry so I ate a lean cuisine meal, which was okay, but I didn't listen to my body afterward. We were watching television, and as usual, I munched on chips the entire time. They were baked lays, but I ate almost the entire bag (it was full before last night!) which was over 900 calories!

However, I am counting yesterday as an accomplishment, because instead of doing my usual routine of binging and then hiding the mostly empty bag in the cupboard (or throwing the container away if I ate it all) and pretending it didn't happen (and later being baffled as to why I'm not losing weight), I came online and logged it in. I'm so proud of myself because I feel for me, acknowledging my binges is only going to help me. I feel I've been in a state of denial for so long about my nighttime binging and coming clean about it is the only way for me to overcome it. So this is a huge step for me and I know that I will be able to get past this nasty little problem and I will be successful.

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