We have gotten a little behind here. The site got hacked, and Challenge 21 completely disappeared! Everything has now been taken care of including passwords that are now about 300 characters long. Ok..not 300 but much more secure. We got hit by a bot, so this wasn’t a personal attack, none the less, it created an entire day’s worth of work for the tech department and a lot of headaches around here.
Over the weekend, I picked up a book called, “Women, Food and God”. It is an amazing book that I would recommend to anyone that is “mindlessly” eating. We have spent two weeks working on identifying when we are mindlessly eating, trying to figure out what is triggering it and then working to connect with our food. “Women, Food and God” looks into what motivates the mindless eating in the first place. And without that piece, I don’t believe that we can truly overcome it.
I actually spent the weekend going back into my life, my childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. There is some stuff in there that isn’t pretty. I learned to use food to calm myself, and also as a reward. It became my friend, one of the few things I could control. I stopped being present with food at that point and brought that forward into my adulthood. Geneen Roth talks about compulsive eating (mindless eating) as being a way of leaving when life gets hard.
We tend to carry the messages that we got while growing up and applying them to ourselves as adults. “Staying (being present) requires being curious about who you actually are when you don’ t take yourself to be a collection of memories”. I have been spending some time learning which of those memories (most) don’t apply anymore. It has been very enlightening.
For Today: When you find yourself falling into mindless eating, stop and try to see what you are really feeling emotionally. Can you identify the emotion that is driving it?
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