{"id":2060,"date":"2021-05-03T17:31:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2021-05-03T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:31:56","slug":"finally-lost-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/finally-lost-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"I Finally Lost Weight! My Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I Finally Lost Weight<\/p><\/div>\n

I finally lost some weight which isn’t easy for an emotional eater<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

What worked for me in this regard was getting a step master and placing it in the kitchen. When I’m on my third fruitless round towards the fridge because I feel sort of tense but not really hungry, it’s the first thing I see when I enter. It works much better than food to relieve stress.<\/p>\n

RITUAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also I really like having a sort of mid-afternoon ritual with coffee in my special pretty cup (it’s actually a ceramic wine goblet, but it has a hollow base which gets so nice and warm from the coffee, plus I really like the rough texture) and one or two squares of 90+% chocolate.<\/p>\n

It took a while to not eat it whole (which I once considered impossible), but lately it just became a thing.<\/p>\n

KEY POINTS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

a)<\/strong> I always ate the whole chocolate bar because sugar makes my mouth burn on contact and chewing something (like, for example, more chocolate) helps. Low sugar chocolate doesn’t do this and I like it more for this reason.<\/p>\n

B)<\/strong> nobody else in my home likes chocolate with content as high as I do and I finally feel secure enough leaving high-value treats around uneaten. I’m also more confident in my boundaries and I know I am respected here – so nobody will mess with my chocolate if I ask them not to.<\/p>\n

C)<\/strong>, I’m trying to eat sufficiently during mealtimes – embarrassingly often I used to snack or even drink too much beer because I was actually hungry and since I’ve condemned it as a bad behavior anyway, who cares how much of it I do once I start, I’m going to hate myself either way… Allowing a snack actually helped with this particular issue as well.<\/p>\n

EXERCISE EQUIPMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have my step master I mentioned that I really enjoy because lately I’ve been having a real urge to run, but I really shouldn’t because both of my weight and a joint issue I was born with. This scratches that itch and it has a huge effect on my mental well-being which helps with my staying on track with my eating<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Since the start of the year I’ve been working up in both the duration and setting, but I’ve overdone it a bit and got really demotivated about three weeks back. Now I’m back doing 20 minutes every morning for about a week. I was trying to do 60 before I quit, but that interfered with other stuff too much and made me too tired to do other stuff I wanted to do, so I just got really discouraged. So tip: make sure you do enough to keep you motivated and no more.<\/p>\n

NATURE<\/strong><\/p>\n

I really enjoy hiking and walking, I have a forest just over the field here (see pic) and I try to go for a bit of a walk at least half of the time, my usual routes are about 60-90 minutes. Sometimes on the weekends we do a proper hike, but my partner has gotten a bit lazy lately. I don’t really like going alone and I want to spend weekends with him anyway because we don’t have as much time for us during the week.<\/p>\n

I really enjoy yoga, and do it while watching TV lately instead of eating. I usually follow a daily practice religiously which holds for about two months, then something goes wrong so I miss a few sessions, then I’m not feeling it for a month but then I start again. I think I’ll keep it going this time and suggest you try it.<\/p>\n

HOBBY<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m also planning (for the past 4 months, LOL) to get back into belly dancing. I loved it when I was younger, but I was massively discouraged when I found out I can’t move my body quite like I used to and that I can’t even properly hold a safe posture for dancing.<\/p>\n

This was maybe a year ago. Well, lately I’ve been feeling a bit better about my core mainly thanks to the step master and some of the yoga, so it might be time.<\/p>\n

Hope this helps someone, the stores on here did help me.<\/p>\n

Thanks!<\/p>\n

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