RE: Kate/seeing & wanting food

October 20, 2006

---- Kate wrote:

> I have a real big struggle just standing in line at a coffee shop and seeing a

chocolate cupcake on the counter. I literally have to physically turn

my head in another direction and block my mind from imagining what it

would taste like. If I'd never gone to the coffee shop in the first

place, I never would've even thought about or missed the cupcake, but

because I saw it, I started imagining it.

*** I can totally relate, Kate -- I'm the same way. I see a can of Coke (or an

ad for one), or a chocolate donut (or, just about *any* donut for that matter!),

or whatever, and I want that food/drink NOW! Doesn't matter if I'm hungry or

not. Most times I'll go ahead and buy the thing, but tell myself that I am *NOT*

going to eat (drink) it until my body is actually hungry (thirsty) for it. That

seems to work okay. Then I'm giving myself *permission* to have the thing, but

I'm keeping it within the proper boundaries. NO FOOD is forbidden ... as long as

you only eat when you're truly hungry, and you stop eating when you're

satisfied.

Jenn

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