ALL I WANT TO DO IS EAT
Monday, March 19th, 2007
Did you ever notice that when you’re forbidden from doing something, you want to do it that much more? 
So much so that you can’t stop thinking about it? It becomes an obsession. It started as a “get healthy” thing. I was going to lose weight just because I was going on a low cholesterol diet. It happened of necessity at first. And the exercise was going well. Well, going well for me, which meant I was doing the treadmill thing a few times a week. Then something bad happened. Something self-defeating.
First, after three months of the good food, my cholesterol came back with no change. 
My LDL (the bad goopy stuff in my arteries) is bad. :thumbsdown: Thank you heredity. And of course, I began to feel like, then why am I bothering to do all these good things for my body?:cry: Well the answer :lightbulb:came to me after a week of wallowing in MnM’s and no exercise. (OK so I was in Aruba and who wants to be a good girl there?). The answer was simple: Imagine how bad my blood work and cholesterol and body would be without good food and exercise? It was time to go back to being good.
Except that I developed some bad habits :thumbsdown: that I need you to help me break. Janelle already made me promise to up my fruit and vegetable intake and I will. I promise. Maybe by the time this posts, I already have. But that won’t solve the things that are affecting my waistline.
Thing 1 – The desire for sweets after every meal
Thing 2 – Instead of eating one 100 calorie pack, I eat two. Or more. At one time.
Thing 3 – When I bring my daughter her cup of cereal and water (no she’s not in prison) snack at night, I fill up a cup of Frosted Flakes for me too (and that’s not a measured cup it’s bigger) 
Thing 4 – When I am home writing, I am hungrier than when I am out running errands and so I keep going to the fridge for food every hour. 
Thing 5 – My lunches suck. Think big calorie cinammon raisin bagel and then the sweet thing craving and you get the picture.
Thing 6 – Can’t stop thinking about food.
Thing 7 - I really HATE exercise. 
I need to say I bought new exercise clothes to up my desire to exercise. 
(I’m hiding from Janelle) but all that’s done is make me look sorta cute but still lacking in desire to get on the treadmill!
I need suggestions to stop these self-sabotaging THINGS. Can you help me? (And while you are posting to help poor pathetic me, care to share what self-sabotaging habits YOU have? Doesn’t have to be diet. Can be anything!)
