Tonight we review THE Snack Drawer.
Actually, during these times of Covid THE Snack Drawer became THE kitchen, which then became THE snack bag for even easier access.
Working from home, my access to food is an easy few steps away. Prior to this, access to food while at an office was never a thing and took effort to go drive somewhere to get something or wake up early enough to pack snacks. This totally gave rise to weekends being all about the great escape from the work week structure and food splurges seemed to be a wonderful fix. See the pattern here?
Today I saw my snack bag and the Nilla wafer box almost looked like it was glowing with a twinkling halo around it. I had a slight headache at the time and just finished a meeting and my brain so wanted to use. I needed the hit, the quick wonderful sugary hit that brought back pleasant memories of me eating Nilla wafers at my grandparents when I was a kid. This for sure would get me through to the end of my day.
I even held the dam f’ing box in my lap, hugged it, and said, “why do I need you, why do I want you”? Can you see what a moment this was from an outsiders view? Can you relate to this? Where you catch yourself desiring food like a person you romantically love? That my friends, is a strong neural pathway I have created after YEARS of repeatedly using rather than acknowledging and processing my thoughts about what was occurring in the moment.
So how did this end? The Nilla wafers were put back in the snack bag. I took several deep breaths and said, “I love you Adri, you’ve got this, let’s go outside real quick”.
Was this easy? No. I’ve been “sugar clean” for three days. Did I die? Nope, still here! Will it get easier? Sure! I can make this an even stronger neural pathway in my brain so it becomes as effortless as shoveling sweets into my mouth whenever stress and pain are felt did.
Is this you too? What thoughts give way to stress and what thoughts do you use to diffuse stress? And so much more. Let’s coach together to find this out
