winning and losing this week!
What a week this has been! I was so surprised when my staff presented me with a thank you card and a $30 starbucks card at the weekly school assembly. Later they said they know I take a beating from the admin for them and as I always show them that I appreciate them, they wanted me to know that I am appreciated! THEN the day after one of the teachers gave me a bottle of a vodka cosmopolitan and a large box of ferraro roche to thank me for helping him get a night school teaching gig and one with virtual school. SO that was nice.
And my chats with the fatts is still going well. I have been paying close attention to the rewarding myself eating and reduced it considerably. My real reward is a 3.5 loss this week! I had been quite disenchanted when I stayed at 201 for the week but today the scale jumped down to 198.5. YAY!
My conversations have not ended. I have noticed the reach for the sweets whenever I am stressed or depressed. That is the next thing I am working on. After some logical assessment I am wondering if I can switch fruit for the chocolate. I know it is a stretch, and I will have to look at a variety of fruits, but we will see. I am guessing watermelon may help if I can keep it handy. So that talks contintue.
I will try to log in more often.
It’s so nice to be appreciated isn’t it?! Good for you hon! I’m intrigued by your ‘conversations’. I’ve tried fruit but it doesn’t work for me because it’s always too cold. can’t stand cold food. >_<
I found that cleaning out the ‘bad’ stuff from the house was so important. No chocolate allowed in my house! If I do buy it, I have whatever I wanted and then throw the rest away immediately. (Hint: choc ice cream melts fast in the garbage can.) After a while, I noticed my tastes changed and I really don’t like the sweets as much, although I still get a powerful urge once in a while.
So nice your efforts are being recognised…congrats!