Let’s talk about eating during trying times…like snowpocalypse 2021!
Eleven days of following my meal plan and now we arrive to feel mother nature’s wrath and wow, it packed a punch of coldness like we haven’t experienced in Texas in quite a long time. I also allowed it to pack a punch into my weight release journey too. Maybe you can relate to this? Who threw out their “diet”?
I ate off plan, hell there wasn’t a daily food plan made, because my chosen thoughts were, “I don’t want to have to think about what I eat when the power is out. There is just too much going on I don’t want to deal. Who knows when I will get a hot meal again so I better eat well!”
Yup, three days of that kind of thinking made time go by so fast, even in the frigid cold without power. If you want to slow down time, try rewiring your brain to develop a new habit that pushes you to be a better version of yourself. You will see…the minutes pass like hours.
We were able to get hot meals at Whataburger and Pizza Hut, but the awareness of eating to a comfortable point where hunger was satisfied and I didn’t overindulge was ignored. In retrospect, I ask myself why? What good was this to do to myself in times of emergency? I surely wasn’t thinking of my future self to handle any crisis with a clear mind by stuffing myself. I reverted to eating out of not wanting to feel uncomfortable emotions. Just like my Nilla wafer episode created out of my thoughts about work stress.
Here’s the sauce…it doesn’t matter the situation, you are always in control of what you put in your mouth to eat. Whataburger and Pizza Hut used to be off limits places to get food from but the mental work I’ve done to remove those mental barriers proved to be so helpful this week, especially when food choices were limited. The true work this journey has is to continue to work on getting comfortable with feeling uncomfortable and believing in the moment of emotional overload that overeating does not solve any problem. In fact, it creates more problems! Unlike Alice and all those little pastries she ate to get out of her situation, the best solution is to just get to notice those energetic vibrations called emotions we create and realize they are all generated from our thoughts.
