Day Three: Fun Meal vs Fuel Meal
Day Three and this is the least amount of points I have eaten and the most amount of points earned. Yay! I walked almost two hours with a friend and made every meal today, with fresh ingredients-no boxed mac and cheese, no frozen dinners. Double yay!
This post is about accepting and embracing that not every meal will be a trip to an amusement park full of excitement, fun, and sugar. I am learning this. I have heard the adage "I eat to live, not live to eat." Sorry, but I can do both. I absolutely love to eat. The ritual of it, the ceremony of preparing a favorite meal or snack, the first bite. But, like most things, it can be ruined in minutes and I usually manage to do just that. By binge eating or overeating, allowing myself too much of a good thing and feeling the physical and emotional consequences of it.
On WW, I am learning that not every meal has to be something to write home about or akin to your last meal on Earth. It can simply be a functional meal meant to give fuel and nutrition and then you go about your merry way. My eating habits can often be described as those of an unsupervised child in the grocery store-typically lots of Goldfish, lots of Mug cake, lots of ice cream. So, prior to WW I was either depriving the shit out of myself with extremely unreasonable and unattainable expectations or I was balls to the wall "out of control" and eating all the things the 8-year-old girl inside me wanted to eat.
The past few days have taught me that cooking for myself (which is new-ish territory) will meet some challenges, road blocks, and less than desirable outcomes, and as long as they are edible and I don't have a back up plan, I'm going to eat these meals. And I don't have to like them to reap the benefits. I am going to take advantage of the WW forums and recipes, tweak things when necessary (I put a tiny bit of butter in my brown rice today), and make note of what does and doesn't work for me.
I am embracing change and challenging soon-to-be former beliefs about eating and food that have been so ingrained in me I am genuinely surprised they haven't been challenged before. But here's to us figuring it out together.
Mel
This is my blog about my journey on Weight Watchers SmartPoints system circa December 16, 2018. I am not paid by Weight Watchers or any affiliates and my opinions, musings, and thoughts are solely my own.
This post is about accepting and embracing that not every meal will be a trip to an amusement park full of excitement, fun, and sugar. I am learning this. I have heard the adage "I eat to live, not live to eat." Sorry, but I can do both. I absolutely love to eat. The ritual of it, the ceremony of preparing a favorite meal or snack, the first bite. But, like most things, it can be ruined in minutes and I usually manage to do just that. By binge eating or overeating, allowing myself too much of a good thing and feeling the physical and emotional consequences of it.
On WW, I am learning that not every meal has to be something to write home about or akin to your last meal on Earth. It can simply be a functional meal meant to give fuel and nutrition and then you go about your merry way. My eating habits can often be described as those of an unsupervised child in the grocery store-typically lots of Goldfish, lots of Mug cake, lots of ice cream. So, prior to WW I was either depriving the shit out of myself with extremely unreasonable and unattainable expectations or I was balls to the wall "out of control" and eating all the things the 8-year-old girl inside me wanted to eat.
The past few days have taught me that cooking for myself (which is new-ish territory) will meet some challenges, road blocks, and less than desirable outcomes, and as long as they are edible and I don't have a back up plan, I'm going to eat these meals. And I don't have to like them to reap the benefits. I am going to take advantage of the WW forums and recipes, tweak things when necessary (I put a tiny bit of butter in my brown rice today), and make note of what does and doesn't work for me.
I am embracing change and challenging soon-to-be former beliefs about eating and food that have been so ingrained in me I am genuinely surprised they haven't been challenged before. But here's to us figuring it out together.
Mel
This is my blog about my journey on Weight Watchers SmartPoints system circa December 16, 2018. I am not paid by Weight Watchers or any affiliates and my opinions, musings, and thoughts are solely my own.
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