New Diet Plan

[livingdeb]

Here is my latest diet plan, scientifically formulated:

No snacks at work.

I initiated this strategy when I was too lazy to go to the store to buy snacks. It's all about using weaknesses for my own good for once.

I definitely have gotten into the habit of eating whenever I feel frustrated, annoyed, or otherwise stressed. Then I rationalize it by telling myself that my sanity is more important than my weight. (Which it is, right up until my weight threatens my life.) But of course I might not need extra food to maintain my sanity. Maybe just focusing on plowing through the work as best I can will distract me from the unpleasant feelings.

Journal entry of the day: Indigo rose's Random List Thought with ideas to maximize your comfort while traveling. These are not the same old ideas you've heard everywhere. "* Dark chocolate covered coffee beans. Better than coffee for waking me up, and doesn't give me the stomach problems I sometimes get from local coffee. I ran out two days ago. *sniff*"

Comments

[sallini.livejournal.com]

The "no snacks by not buying snacks at the store" strategy works up to the moment when you realize how easy and convenient it is to get snacks from the vending machine or office canteen. This is where marshalling your inner aesthete who looks down on mass produced chocolate and your Frugal Frannie personality who won't let you pay five times as much as you could have done at the super market becomes crucial for success. I'm not sure how you avoid the leftover birthday cakes, etc., that inevitably appear in any workplace (free! effortless! perhaps even delicious to a sophisticated palate!). Perhaps you simply seal yourself in a hermetic bubble. Good luck, though. I will be curious how your efforts turn out.

I used to think I was a boredom eater until I was stressed more often and became a stress eater. Quickly, I had to admit that I will eat something for any damn reason whatsoever.

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Yes. Foooood. Yummy.

Well, leftover birthday cakes are allowable on any Debbie diet. Even in the strictest Debbie diet I get one piece unless it turns out to be not that yummy in which case I have to stop after one bite.

The whole reason I brought snacks in the first place is that sometimes I get so hungry that I can't think of anything but food, so in order to get any work done I would walk over to the local drug store and buy some chips or something very unhealthy. So I brought healthier things than that, but then I started eating them more an more often. So now the occasional run for chips would still be better than what I was doing.

So far I have lasted two days. I did get half a cookie handed to me, which I then ate. I have gotten hungry, but not too hungry to work.