wait until you are hungry to eat
This one sounds so obvious. But I noticed in the car today on the way in to work, I was looking for something to eat. I drank some water and had half a stick of gum instead, but it got me thinking... I wanted food, but I wasn't hungry. This is something I know I've read about, it's in alot of weight loss literature. Basically, learning to listen to your body and know when you are hungry and when you are eating for a different reason.
So, my strategy for today when I want to eat I need to try to figure out if I am hungry. Step 1: is my stomach growling? or does it feel "empty"? Step 2: Drink some water. Often people are dehydrated and reach for food mistaking their thirst for hunger. Step 3: Chew 1/2 a stick of gum. Step 4: is your stomach growling or feeling "empty"? Editing for clarification: This isn't meant to be a method for ignoring hunger. If my stomach is literally growling, I am going to eat. It's not meant as a way to ignore this sign of hunger in your body until you're shaking and feeling faint. FYI.
I am down another pound and a half. YAY! I really think I can be 120 by Easter. But there are going to be a few hiccups along the way that I am trying to prepare for. I have Friday off. Days off from work and routine are hard for me. Structure in my day means more structure in my food intake. I need to come up with a strategy for that before Friday. Then on Saturday it's dinner out with my family. I already know where we are going and they have their nutrition information online so I will be able to pick something out before I go.
So, I am writing this at work and I want to be anywhere else but here. Nothing particularly bad happened. Except that people keep wanting me to do my job. I should be thankful I have a job. But really I just want to say "fuck this shit" and walk out. Not very customer service oriented of me. I kind of wish I worked at gym. I'd be the girl that sits at the front desk scanning membership cards and handing out towels. That'd be cool with me. Then I could work out before or after work for free. And I could focus on me and not how much I hate this shitty job. Except that will never happen because I'm too damn overqualified.
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honestly, I wish i had a mindless job like the gym worker sometimes. it's easy. but they don't pay much and i think i'd feel like a loser at my age with that kind of job. oh well. be strong this weekend! congrats on the 1.5 lbs.
I have started doing the "drink a glass of water" every time I feel hungry as well and it actually helps alot :) If it doesn't then I drink a cup of green tea or black coffee.
I work with customer service as well, and now finally after 5,5 years I enjoy my work. I started a new position at a new co, for coupld of months ago, and these have been the best couple months I have had work wise, but still from time to time.. Specially after talking/mailing one of those "special" ppl Id love to have a "braindead" job. hehe.. but ya.. the pay sucks and I think Id get bored really fast.
I do have a goal however. When I have reached my goal and am in a better shape, I am going to get me sertificated as a spinning/pilates/yoga instructor or something like that. I wish to have my office job part time and have the instructor job part time :)
Still loooong way to go there, but ya
I think if I worked at gym I would get certified as a personal trainer. I was a certified zumba instructor (it's not that hard, you don't need to know anything, just have $200 and a one day free to learn) for a year (I didn't renew). I like zumba, but I hated having to choreograph new songs every few weeks. I didn't get paid for that, only the hours I actually instructed.
I always manage to catch my self when im about to snack even though im not hungry. I always eat because im bored so i give myself time limits. Like wait an hour then see how you feel.
I wish i could get any job at all but i have no experience whatsoever and noone will hire me but i cant get any experience till someone hires me. Im stuck in a loop :(
Well done for the weightloss x
I feel like just walking out sometimes too. Jobs suck:P
But money is awesome so we will persevere!:D
HAHA! Trinity that is so true. Jobs do suck, but the money is good (well, having money is good. I don't actually make alot of it).
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