April 30, 2008

Catching myself from a possible emotional eating trigger.

 

Ten minutes ago I tried calling my brother on his cell phone to see when he was going to pick me up to go to the gym, I usually call at this time cause he got off work 15 minutes ago, but I got no answer. I then noticed on my cell phone that I had a missed call from his house at about 11am this morning. Now usually he works from 6am-4:30pm and his wife has today off. I'm thinking that either he had the day off and wanted to go to the gym earlier today, OR his wife wanted me to watch my nieces while she ran an errand or something. I usually watch my nieces 4 days a week and pick them up from school while, my brother and his wife are at work. But I got no answer on his cell phone or his home phone.

 

Anyhow, the main reason I wanted to journal this was because all of the sudden I had a craving to eat, to go out and pick up some fast food. Could the above reason have been one of my triggers for emotional eating? I hope I overcome this craving, because I started a "diet" today and fast food is NOT on the list. I plan to lose about 50 pounds, and I am trying to catch and document the triggers I have when I feel the urge to sabotage my "diet".

8/12/2007

I have always put off setting goals because I have always been afraid of failure; I believe this was due to my negative thinking. NOW is the time for me to change. Over the next week I will be working on goal setting.