HannahNaomi

Hey! I'm in the Overbrook area too. Would love to meet a fellow rebel

Thanks guys! This helps a lot

Question: I am at home for break until the end of January. My parents keeps junk food around the house, and I can't really do anything about it. Since part of this challenge is to cut out sweets, I was wondering if anyone has any advice for leveling up when you don't really have control over your surroundings?

Question: I am at home for break until the end of January. My parents keeps junk food around the house, and I can't really do anything about it. Since part of this challenge is to cut out sweets, I was wondering if anyone has any advice for leveling up when you don't really have control over your surroundings?

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Soooo...I signed up for the last challenge and that didn't go very well...so I'm going at this again. Main quest: I want to fully transition into Paleo by the end of June, maybe lose 15 pounds as well 1. Cut out sweets, like desserts and candy 2. Drink 1Liter of water every day 3. Eat 1 vegetable every day Side quest: Increase flexibility by stretching for 30 min every day

Thanks everyone!! However....I should tell you that I failed last night. I went on a major binge and ate two donuts, a McD's large Double Cheeseburger meal and ice cream...on the positive side, I not only feel like CRAP today, I am completely off my game and I am blaming my decision last night. I don't even care if it's really all to blame, but it's getting all of it because I am better than this! And thank you SoftSoul for the encouragement! Question: could you elaborate on what you mean by simple carbs? It's a silly question, but I'm just curious as to whether you mean just sweets and processed stuff and fast food, or all bread or whatever....?

Um...this is my first challenge, obviously. I think I'm confused...am I doing this right? My main quest is to overcome emotional eating. 3 goals: 1. Journal every time I want to eat before eating, 2. Make a to-do list every day 3. Drink 1L of water every day. Also, this was my side quest but I think it falls more in line with my goals for my main quest: go to bed at 11 each night and sleep until I wake up naturally. I'm currently recording in an Excel doc when I go to bed, when I wake up, when I eat and whether I ate out of hunger or something else. Am I doing too much? Too little? Too easy? I'm just not sure!!

Small victory tonight: was going through what I think was withdrawal from sugar. I really really really wanted to jump in the car and drive to McD's or Wendy's and get ice cream, but I paused and forced myself to write about it. I ended up drinking water and then got ready for bed. Currently not craving

So far the days have been good. I haven't eaten except when hungry since I started, which was Friday I think...my longest ever period of time I've gone without binging was five days, so it's a little bit of a big deal that I've made it this far. I started my to-do lists on Monday, and so far have kept up with them and completed everything on them each day. In addition to writing before I eat, I decided it's a good idea to continue what I was doing before, which is record what I eat and when as well. I'm doing well so fare

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Main quest: Stop emotional eating once and for all! Goals: 1. When I have an impulse to eat, I have to write about it before I can act on it: time, what's happened, why I want to eat, do I need to do something else, do I want something specific 2. Drink a liter of water every day 3. Make a to-do list each day Side quest: 1. Establish a regular/normal sleep schedule

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I realized another habit: When something good happens, I ride a kind of high. Like today, I was really excited to read a letter that I wrote ten years ago today. When I got off work I remembered today was the day and I was so excited all the way home. I had a little bite of something on my way to my room, but I just wanted to get there and read it. I had some really good laughs reading it and sharing it with some of my friends, and it was a really good thing to happen today. But then the good feeling was gone, and I was left with a feeling of "what now?" It's kind of a "I'm bored now/I want that feeling again/I'm empty" and it usually concludes with me eating, sometimes binging. It's happened several times in the past where I have had some really great times with friends or family, or just really rewarding expriences on my own, and they usually have nothing to do with food, and I'm excited that good things are happening. But it never lasts and then I think of food and I want to eat; I have tried to fight it before, saying "you're doing so well now; you feel good and you haven't binged" but inevitably it happens.

I have seen that; It's very true! I have been really trying hard to let hard feelings go. Something that has helped me recently is if something creeps into my mind about past hurts or someone who has wronged me, I say to myself, "they don't matter" for some reason this helps me more than just telling myself "let it go" or something like that.