SkinkWitch
I've got the power
I am now on my 4th week of Lipotrim, and having the opportunity to distance myself from food has opened my eyes to my behaviour around food and negative eating patterns.
First thing to hit me was the amount of denial I've been in! I was one of these people who would complain about putting on weight, despairing because I 'just couldn't understand' how I'd got so 'fat'!
With the benefit of hindsight, all those half-packets of biscuits, all those family sized bars of chocolate, pizza from the takeaway across the road, cans of lager and packets of crisps couldn't have had much to do with my weight gain...... I have always been following the 80/20 rule, just seem to have done it the wrong way around!
The second thing, and this will be the real challenge after I've reached target, is the emotional relationship to food.
In my household, we celebrate with food, we commiserate with food, we relax with food, in fact any given example is an excuse for a banquet!
Now we are having to explore new ways of feeling bonded with one another, the TV goes off in the evenings because we're not hunched over our dinner like cavemen round a camp fire, and we actually talk to each other! Or sometimes we play games, or do some household jobs.
The main focus of our evenings has always been our dinner, planning, preparing, eating. It struck me how this is not the way to be, I've been living to eat, when I should be seeing food as fuel, and eating to live!
Sorry for the long post, just thought I'd share my moment of clarity with you.
SW
First thing to hit me was the amount of denial I've been in! I was one of these people who would complain about putting on weight, despairing because I 'just couldn't understand' how I'd got so 'fat'!
With the benefit of hindsight, all those half-packets of biscuits, all those family sized bars of chocolate, pizza from the takeaway across the road, cans of lager and packets of crisps couldn't have had much to do with my weight gain...... I have always been following the 80/20 rule, just seem to have done it the wrong way around!
The second thing, and this will be the real challenge after I've reached target, is the emotional relationship to food.
In my household, we celebrate with food, we commiserate with food, we relax with food, in fact any given example is an excuse for a banquet!
Now we are having to explore new ways of feeling bonded with one another, the TV goes off in the evenings because we're not hunched over our dinner like cavemen round a camp fire, and we actually talk to each other! Or sometimes we play games, or do some household jobs.
The main focus of our evenings has always been our dinner, planning, preparing, eating. It struck me how this is not the way to be, I've been living to eat, when I should be seeing food as fuel, and eating to live!
Sorry for the long post, just thought I'd share my moment of clarity with you.
SW