Like so many people at this time of year, I've recently been trying to make some changes in my life - to eat more healthily, exercise more, get on top of the housework, save more money and use my time more productively. So far, it has been going fairly well and I'm still quite motivated to keep up the good work.
However, I've been reflecting on a lifetime of disordered eating habits and I've realised that for years, I have self-medicated with food, using junk to "treat" myself at the end of a long day or as a reward for achieving something. I am keen to break that cycle by finding other things that I can treat myself to instead, but I am a bit short on ideas. I'm therefore looking for suggestions - what do you do when you want to be kind to yourself? So far, I have the following ideas:
Fresh flowers for the house
A nice hot bath
An hour in bed with a book
An evening on the sofa with a good film/box set
A cinema/theatre trip
A weekend away
A day off work to do whatever I fancy
Does anyone have any other ideas? I'm interested in both "big" rewards for the significant milestones as well as smaller treats for the hard days when I feel that I've really earned the right to eat crap and veg out.
TIA!