I’m beginning to lose sight of my goals again. I had the opportunity to watch my team lose
for a second time last night and their opponents moved on to the national
tournament. It was a late night and I
relished the devil’s hour and a half of sleep again this morning, plus, I need
to make up 30 minutes of work from leaving early yesterday.
I feel discouraged because every day since Friday, I have
had some social engagement that provided me with not so positive food choices
that did not meet up with what I had planned and needed to eat. If I am really interested in losing 10-15
pounds and keeping that weight off, I need to make some different choices when
it comes to eating with my friends. Most
of the time, in my mind, I’m interested in losing that weight, but when it
comes down to a choice between shrimp on a green salad and fried cheese, fried
cheese might win every time.
The times when I’ve been most successful at losing weight
have been times in my life when I’ve been isolated socially either because a
breakup/custody battle for the friend network or because I was at a multi-week training
out of state. Numerous articles demonstrate
that people, especially women, will tend to be the same weight within their
social network because they tend to eat the same kinds of things and exercise
about the same. It’s as if we carry
around our social network around our midsections. I don’t think I need new friends – I think I
need to shift where I am on the “how much we eat together” spectrum. I don’t think I need to stop going out with
my guy friends, I just need to remember that my body does not need as many
slices of pizza as they do.
For this change to really take effect, I have to mentally
practice making those choices so they become automatic when I’m in the
moment. Then, I think that when I make a
better choice in the moment, I need to have a non-food reward that I get. Thinking about that could be really fun…
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