{"id":544,"date":"2001-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-repeat-after-me-food-is-not-a-cure-all\/"},"modified":"2001-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-05T00:00:00","slug":"weight-loss-repeat-after-me-food-is-not-a-cure-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/weight-loss-repeat-after-me-food-is-not-a-cure-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeat After Me: Food is Not a Cure-All"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gosh, I knew I was an emotional eater—Ive always used food as comfort, eating for every stinking emotion: happy, sad, celebratory, anxious, stressed, mournful, whatever—but this week put “Emotional Eater” out in lights on a billboard!<\/p>\n

I realized it as I was digging into my five-year-olds goodie bag and stuffing Tootsie Rolls down my throat. Now, as I am typing this, I want to jump head-first into the chocolate birthday cake that I made my husband—and I dont even go for cake or chocolate. (I actually had to remind myself of that!) So, um, yeah, this emotional eating is a problem for me. I finally asked myself why I was doing this, and came up with the answer: I am super-stressed over my career and the lack of a job after being laid off in late April.<\/p>\n

This has all resulted in quite a few lapses this week—Ive stumbled so much after vacation. I even went food shopping, so I had a great selection of food in my house and packed snacks for myself wherever I went. I still struggled.<\/p>\n

I think I may be eating too much fruit and too few veggies, and lunch is still throwing me for a loop. This week, I vow to meet my emotional eating head on, and figure out another outlet to replace using food to fill a emotional hole. I plan to dance around silly with my boys, go for a run, call a friend…any lifeline other than eating. It will be a challenge, but it is one that I am up for!!<\/p>\n

This weeks goal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Work out six days: Mission accomplished!!! I worked out hard this week, and I am hoping that it helped with my food lapses. I did over 50 minutes of intense cardio (ran over 3 miles, and then ran-walked at least 20 minutes after) four days this week. On the days I weight trained, I did less cardio (as suggested by Jessica, my trainer). Plus, I did a Spin class on Saturday that I absolutely loved—and cant wait to do again! So exercising is going awesomely. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This weeks challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Lunch: I never know what to eat. Lunch choices were the biggest challenge for me this past week. But I will figure it out this coming week, and I will find out what works for me. I am going to go back to my first weeks food journal to get some ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gosh, I knew I was an emotional eater—Ive always used food as comfort, eating for every stinking emotion: happy, sad, celebratory, anxious, stressed, mournful, whatever—but this week put “Emotional Eater” out in lights on a billboard! I realized it as I was digging into my five-year-olds goodie bag and stuffing Tootsie Rolls down my throat. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}