Ok - to cut a long story short I was doing well with my diet, fitness and disciplined spending patterns up until around Friday, 29th November.
However, since then I’ve had an emotional issue - it’s around people pleasing and saying no - that’s caused me to feel unsettled, to overeat, spend much more, forget my diet plan and put weight on since that date.
So for the last 3 weeks I’ve struggled and been far less productive as well on a pragmatic level around the house - I’ve let it all go to pot basically and got lazy.
Anyway, yesterday I decided to rein myself in, discipline myself and get back in a strict diet/fitness regime. So basically I was proud of myself for not overindulging when I went to Sainsbury’s- - even though I was very tempted. Today I’ve been on quite a long walk but I’ve not gone to a lovely cafe en route for some delicious savouries which I was very tempted to do.
I’ve just been food shopping but reigned myself in this lunchtime appropriately and not overeaten. Yesterday and today I’ve been running.
I’ve started this thread as basically a shoutout to anyone in a similar situation - I think if someone’s got themselves into a cycle of binge eating it can be REALLY hard to stop. It’s SOOOOO tempting to give in and sack it off until the next day.
Also I admitted earlier that the cause of my dieting backslide and subsequent weight gain is issues around people pleasing and saying no - this is something judging by the MN threads that loads of us struggle with. ❤️
The reason I felt able to reign things in yesterday is I looked at the situation that was triggering my people pleasing tendencies and saw things in a different light. I still find it difficult but I’ve learnt how to deal with it.
So I’m proud of myself for reigning my eating in yesterday and going out running when it was cold - and if you’re facing/fighting similar things - you should be too.