Circles
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My first thought at today’s topic was how my weight loss journey has been going in circles for many years. The interesting thing is that I would not say this about any other area of my life. While I’ve certainly not done things in a straight line, everything has ultimately happened in a forward motion and gotten me from A to somewhere else. I do not feel this way about my weight loss journey.
This journey has always felt more like a circle where I keep coming back to the beginning. Or worse, go further backwards so that the starting point is moved back even more, making the path ahead even longer.
Yet I know that I have learned a lot of valuable lessons with each cycle:
I rediscovered my love and the power of journaling.
I understand now that it’s about the weight and it’s not.
My anxiety and emotional (over)eating are trauma responses.
Old habits are just well worn neural pathways that we can change.
Blinders can be helpful for staying on track.
With every cycle I get closer to figuring it out.
This year I developed a framework for breaking out of the emotional eating cycle and this is going to be my focus for 2023:
I dropped the ball on pretty much all of the remedies listed in this framework and I am spending these last couple of weeks of 2022 preparing my environment and getting my mind ready for resuming this journey in 2023.
Who is joining me? Let’s break the cycle together.
Circles
I’m with you, Kerstin. My plan is to nourish my body with nutritious foods instead of punishing it with ‘rabbit food’. Hunger is a basic human survival response, but this year, instead of trying to trick my body into burning fat through feeling hungry (cutting calories) I want to nurture its own inbuilt wisdom to know what it needs to eat, and when. Nourishment, not deprivation. I’ll use your tools too and let’s see if we really can break the cycle!
I am working to make solid changes to improve my health. In the last part of my life, I want to be as healthy as possible.