over-eating.

Find Your Strong 

i am totally guilty of over-eating. constantly i don't understand hunger-cues or use them for  that matter.  so today i watched a very revealing video on emotional over-eating - which can be accessed via josielenore i actually watched several of her videos and was pleasantly surprised at the very intuitive observations she provided on emotional over-eating.  

i think as Josie mentioned alot of my issues with over-eating stems from the simple restraints placed by a diet mentality.  labeling food as good or bad for starters is a great way to get me craving the untouchables.  i need to take food off labels and follow hunger cues, energy levels and the overall impact the food has on my mood, skin, digestion, cycles, etc. 

even checking in after an hour to see how i feel after eating a meal is something i never do.  i constantly am on constraint mode and then on binge mode to escape the restraints of my diet.  Josie takes on an experiential view on eating - going past the traditional "outside-in" nutritional data to a more intuitive experience on food.  every body is different so it makes sense that all of our bodies digest food differently as well. 

so today i let loose and let myself eat everything i wanted, but focused on how the food made me feel afterwards.  alot of it was as Josie said it would be - reactionary eating focused mostly on food that i restricted, but the difference was that i was more in tune with my body.  i never focused on how i felt - it was refreshing and surprising.  most of the yummy food that i reached out to made me feel sick, and i already feel one pimple forming on my otherwise clean skin.  i hope i get rid of this bad habit of overeating, i think it may be a small progress - but i will conquer this! what Josie made me realize the most today is that it's not a weak or strong thing - you just got find your "right".


to the stars, 

uma