Discipline and IE

[Guest guest]

So here is something I'm struggling with tonight.

I know that discipline is something we criticize ourselves for not being when we

cannot stick to diets, but it seems to me that it also takes discipline to do

IE. For example, it takes discipline to stop and figure out if you're hungry,

rather than just snarfing down whatever is in front of you. It takes discipline

to try to figure out what emotion you're stuffing down by eating. It takes

discipline to pause and push the plate away when you've had enough.

I feel, this week, like I am having a resistance to really working the IE steps.

I came home from work today (and it was a busy day, but not a particularly

frustrating day) and found myself eating way more than I should have when I was

not at all hungry. Starting with pita chips, then chocolate chip cookies and

soda, then some leftover goulash from last night's dinner. Now I am

uncomfortably full. And alll the while, I knew I wasn't hungry, that I needed

to stop and figure out what it was all about. That if I was just needing a

break after a busy day, I should sit down and relax instead of heading straight

for the food. But I had zero desire to actually do those things I know I should

have done. Today I am feeling just as undisciplined at IE as I've always been

on diets. If I can't get myself to work the steps, how will I ever get to where

I want to be? How do you make yourself take that pause and figure stuff out

when you just don't want to?

Josie

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