Here is yesterdays food for Krissie's Official QuestionsForDessert Food Journal Challenge.
***DISCLAIMER: PLEASE READ***
I should post a disclaimer of some sorts, I think, about the food I've been posting this week 
As you know I've been reading Geneen Roth's Breaking Free From Emotion Eating and have been following two guidelines (right now) with eating, well three, no dieting (IE: counting calories, or restricting foods), only eating when I'm hungry, stopping when I'm full and eating what I desire to eat.
When Geneen started letting go of diets and gave herself the freedom to eat whatever she wanted, when she was hungry she spend three weeks eating cookie dough. Breakfast, lunch and dinner every day was spent eating cookie dough. She ate it sitting down at the dinner table, savored it and had no guilt over it. She worried that she would only want cookies for the rest of her life, but eventually she got tired of them and realized that she was only eating them because in the past these cookies were seen as bad and therefore guilt inducing. She either avoided them like the plague or binged on them.
After three weeks she started listening to what her body really wanted, and eventually she began trusting that her body wanted healthier foods and it did. Once she was allowed to eat anything that she wanted her obsession with bad foods and binging was greatly diminshed, the power was gone.
Anyway, I've just begun my journey to break free from emotional eating and am allowing myself not to get too caught up into what I'm eating as long as I only eat when I'm hungry, stopping when I'm full and eating only what I truly want. Things that I normally would stress or obsess over are not off limits and I'm finding that I don't even want them when I allow them. I've wanted pulled pork, and pizza for weeks so that's what I've been eating. Is it healthy? Not particularly.
I'm not an advocate for how people should eat and lose weight. Please do not listen to me, I am only on this journey and just finding my own way. I know what foods are healthier for me, and am slowly getting to the point to actually wanting them on my own, without guidlines or feeling like I have to eat them to be good or to be guilt free.
Keeping a photo journal is for me, for record keeping and to see a progression in my choices. And for anyone curious as to what I'm eating.
Morning: pulled pork wrap
w/ ice tea sweetened with a little honey, 8 oz.
cool min clif bar
pepperoni and provolone grilled cheese on 35 cal whole wheat bread with olive oil butter
santa fe chicken salad from applebee's
In weight loss news I'm down to 278.5 thats about 12 lbs since January. If you break it down into months, that could equal out to be 72 lbs lost this year.
Today was day one in my 32 day Bridal Shower exercise challenge and I spent one hour and fifteen minutes at the gym. Strength training B , 15 minutes on the elliptical and 7 minutes on the stair climber.
Hey Lorrie!
Awesome post! I think it’s very important that individuals who want to lose weight or become healthy find a plan that works for them. This is exactly what you’re doing – and it’s great!
One of the biggest tips within this post is this:
…no dieting (IE: counting calories, or restricting foods), only eating when I’m hungry, stopping when I’m full and eating what I desire to eat.
P.S good job on the 12 pounds lost!
I love this post! Nathan and I talked about what you are doing, and it really makes sense. When we go home for Christmas, we totally experience what you’re talking about. We eat candy and big breakfasts and drink pop – pretty much like we used to – but we want better when we get home. And we fix the way we eat.
I love that your plan removes all guilt and that it is working! I’m trying to do something similar as well. I eat breakfast and lunch as I please, and then plan dinner around what points I have left. Like yesterday? I spent 15 points on a big tomato mozzarella salad – so much cheese! And I loved it. And I am very happy!
I love that we are all rocking it out this year. We seem to be in such a good place. And, seriously, isn’t that more important than being thin?
Love ya girl!
72 pounds this year- that’s so great. Congratulations!!!!
Lorrie,
I really connected to this post. It’s kind of funny actually, because I’ve read Geneen’s book in the past and said, “you know, that would never work for me…all I would want is junk food” but I think over time, you do start to crave other things. It’s all about the psychology of eating. We have so many choices these days and we tell ourselves, “we shouldn’t have that…it’s not HEALTHY.” But lately I’ve been doing what you are doing (that is the point I was trying to get to at the beginning of my comment!) which is just listening to my body and eating what it wants. And then stopping when full. And only eating when hungry. But I think the hardest part for me is stopping when full. I don’t know if my body knows what that is anymore. It wants to stop after I feel stuffed. But I am working on it.
Thanks for sharing.
Kaye
Hi Lorrie,
I ordered Geneen’s book and will read it as soon as it arrives (I’m reading Intuitive Eating right now). You are giving me inspiration that its ok to eat what you want and not restrict foods. (I’m trying to let myself eat what I want while still following weight watchers.)
Good luck, I hope you weren’t getting some negative posts regarding your eating!
Lorrie,
Its so great that you are trying to follow Gennen Roth, and to stop dieting. Diets can be so destructive. I remember being on a diet and saying to a friend that I could not stop eating crap, and she said “If you start eating what you don’t really want when you’re not hungry, how will you know when you’re full?” Anyway, it was a big A HA moment for me(-; Love the clothes too!
That’s great!
I have been doing WW for a few months but finally stopped. I felt like it was controling my life. Having to count every little thing was just not motivating me anymore.
I have been eating what I want and I have made a few not so great choices but I realized something- I don’t really crave bad food. I just want delicious, home cooked, well balanced meals.
Now I just need to get to work on the exercise! I pulled wii fit out so that I have to exercide some tonight and tomorrow I am going to rejoin the gym.
You have been a big motivation Lorrie, I just hope I can stick with it like you have!
You know you are just adorable. I laughed out loud when you said “Please do not listen to me, I am only on this journey and just finding my own way” because I’ve wanted to type that so many times on my own blog.
I’m also trying to break away from emotional eating but the book I’m reading recommends easing into structured eating. I think a trip to Barnes and Nobel and an extra large coffee is in my future to flip thru the pages of this book and decide if I want to give it a go.
Whatever you do, I’m cheering you on!
Hey, I just stumbled across your blog, and I had to comment on this entry, since I have lost EXACTLY 72 pounds this past year!
Congratulations on making the decision to change your life. IO started out mine weighing 281 pounds, and still have about 50 to go.
FYI, the Luna Bar’s “Chocolate Peppermint Stick” is just as good as the Clif version (made by the same company), only it has less cals/carbs!
Good luck!
Hello Lorrie,
This post resonated with me so much. I am 105 days away from my wedding. I have been a chubby person since childhood. I have 30 pounds to go (down 30 right now) and I am struggling. I hope to keep checking back here and all of us can motivate each other. It’s not that I want to be “skinny for a day”…rather, I would like to begin a new phase of life, healthy and fit. Not lamenting if someone asks me to go on a hike or a walk because I’ll feel tired. I concur with another poster that I don’t know if my body knows anymore what “feeling satisfied” is. I eat until I reach physical pain almost every meal when I’m in a downturn. Right now I have to pull myself out of my vicious cycle of gaining 7 lbs. I love Geneen Roth’s books!
I wish you so much courage and patience with your journey! Love the idea for your bridal shower clothes, too!