“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
― Madeleine Albright.
Who is really sabotaging you?
Is it a friend, a family member, a significant other sabotaging your journey?
Do you feel they are not being supportive when they insist on giving you a “little more”?
Or is someone cooking food you don’t like, or buying all your trigger foods?
I remember saying if I lived alone, I would be thin. My husband, he was spoiling my chances of losing weight.
But every time I had the house to myself, when my husband and son left for a trip, I gained weight.
Guess my husband was not to blame? He hadn’t force fed me like a goose for foie gras.
Apparently, I had picked up that fork and stuffed myself!
Of course, there are challenges when we have other people to consider.
But there is always an option: Meet a friend for a walk instead of drinks, or eat before you go out for a meal and have one drink and a small plate.
When you take responsibility for your eating habits, the power is with you and the choices are different.
At the beginning of this journey, I asked my husband not to bring home my trigger foods. In the past I would blame him. But when I talked to him about why I needed him to be a partner with me on my food journey he was on board. He wanted me to succeed.
But he missed going out for dinner to some of his favorite restaurants. I made sure we still went out, but usually I would eat a little at home first and at the restaurant just order a small plate.
If your workplace is filled with trigger food snacks that will have you eating out of control, make a change. You can eat a big breakfast or bring in a variety of other snacks (hummus and veggies, nuts, or a fruit plate).
When I am looking after me, it all works out. But if I stop doing that, I let the doors open to make poor decisions. This turns in to a shaming session and I am back in the rabbit hole of the dieting world.
And as this is a journey for life, when I made a choice that didn’t work well, I let it go. It just became another opportunity to reflect and make different choices in the future. There is one more meal coming right behind this one!
It is easy to make someone else the villain, but that makes you in to the victim. This is a journey of empowerment.
Take control of the only person you have control over ………. yourself!
You are so worth it!
Thanks for reading
Christina
Challenge for the week:
Make a list of all the ways your relationship with food is being challenged. It can be a work situation, home or out with friends or a vacation or?
Write down a couple of solutions to change the scenario.
I would love to hear your thoughts.