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I'm thinking about habits, choosing behaviours and outcomes.
Slightly tricky day. I'm not actually hungry but I habitually crave something sweet when I have substantial pain on days like today , particularly if I'm not taking any pain management. I'm trying to break the association by observing the impulse and urge, accepting it without judgment but not acting on it. That's the theory, it's taking a long time to work or to become extinct as a psychology chum would phrase it.
The outcome that I want is that I shouldn't experience any disruptive instinct to eat something sweet (particularly on a fast day) even when pain prompts me to want it. Because, as the saying goes, if I'm eating when I'm not hungry, what would be my cue to stop?
I read a beautiful summary of why this should work.
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Slightly tricky day. I'm not actually hungry but I habitually crave something sweet when I have substantial pain on days like today , particularly if I'm not taking any pain management. I'm trying to break the association by observing the impulse and urge, accepting it without judgment but not acting on it. That's the theory, it's taking a long time to work or to become extinct as a psychology chum would phrase it.
The outcome that I want is that I shouldn't experience any disruptive instinct to eat something sweet (particularly on a fast day) even when pain prompts me to want it. Because, as the saying goes, if I'm eating when I'm not hungry, what would be my cue to stop?
I read a beautiful summary of why this should work.
A good analogy I got from Gary De Rodriguez on conditioned behaviour was likening neural pathways to tracks in a forest. When choosing a path through a dense forest, it's generally your first...
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Nearly 5 years, my how time flies. My current weight is 135, and I have decided to start fasting more often to get to my goal of 128. Anything between 128-132 is good these days. I have been around...
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With two big holiday events in the past 10 days, my eating parameters have suffered a bit to say the least! For some reason I just could not get myself to fast this past week AT ALL, plus those two events...
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I feel like I've entered the doldrums of weightloss, where everything goes sooooo sloooowly.... But I've finally touched the 152's! Yay! And I went clothes shopping this past weekend (my body was looking...
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Popped back up to the 155 range this morning (10/30/2017), but feels like this is the ceiling instead of the floor this time, which is encouraging. Besides, my monthly cycles appeared today, so must allow...
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I'm currently shifting a lot of my mindset and methods this week, so I'm jumping off the weeks and switching to days. This is, after all, a whole life kind of thing, right? Besides, I don't like having...
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Good luck, @moderatemeals! I think you'll love this way of life!
Losing 1.6 pounds is hardly a plateau! You are not going to keep losing at the same rate as the beginning. You should be very happy with 1 pound a week!
Thanks for the comment, cblasz.
Maybe this WOE is so successful that everyone's lost the weight and got on with their lives! I can hope ...
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Maybe this WOE is so successful that everyone's lost the weight and got on with their lives! I can hope ...
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Yes, it is terribly dead here, especially lately. I think that people either just have all the information they need or have stopped this WOE. It is a shame. But stick around. It seems to go in waves....
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