Mindful eating
While I'm journaling here, another thing I should mention is that mindful eating is helping to rid me of my emotional eating habits.
I only eat when I'm actually physically hungry, and I stop when I'm satisfied. I eat from 0-3 or 0-5 on a 0-10 hunger scale.
It's kind of amazing, because when I eat like this, I barely eat 1/3-1/2 or what I ate before. I'm not a big girl, but I could really eat a lot when I was eating for pleasure, enjoyment, or out of frustration, anger, annoyance, a need to escape, etc.
I don't think I ever had a problem with food as significant as I did with gambling, but it was still a problem nonetheless until I discovered mindful eating.
I think the only issue I have with mindful eating is that many of its experts laud eating small portions of whatever you want, but I still think I do better mindfully eating healthy foods.
I only eat when I'm actually physically hungry, and I stop when I'm satisfied. I eat from 0-3 or 0-5 on a 0-10 hunger scale.
It's kind of amazing, because when I eat like this, I barely eat 1/3-1/2 or what I ate before. I'm not a big girl, but I could really eat a lot when I was eating for pleasure, enjoyment, or out of frustration, anger, annoyance, a need to escape, etc.
I don't think I ever had a problem with food as significant as I did with gambling, but it was still a problem nonetheless until I discovered mindful eating.
I think the only issue I have with mindful eating is that many of its experts laud eating small portions of whatever you want, but I still think I do better mindfully eating healthy foods.
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