Kitchen full of food

[Guest guest]

Hi again.  It's been a while, but I've been working on lots of things.  First,

on feeling worthy, through conflict resolutions.  Second, on addressing fears,

large and small, by tapping.  Third, on posing my experiences in the positive,

and living with gratitude and forgiveness.

 

So here is what I need help with.  As a single woman, I have had a sparsely

filled kitchen.  Isn't it easier to stick on that weight loss plan if you have

nothing to binge on?  " Don't you check out at the grocery thinking that the

checker thinks " Boy you sure eat healthily! "    As you think, " Can the checker

tell that I'm a compulsive eater freakcase? "   I'm preaching to the choir.  But

it's Monday morning and you need a laugh.  Everyone in my family teases me

incessantly about not having " normal " food in my kitchen.  The truth is I don't

have junk food and processed foods.   Most everything is to be prepared by me -

I don't do premade foods very much.

 

I have been working on my eating, to the point that I feel like I am eating like

a normal person, and not guilting, obsessing, losing myself on food thoughts. 

So here is the next frontier:   having a kitchen full of food and not being

afraid of it.  Fearful that I will snack incessantly. 

 

First I made a grocery list.  This was a bit disappointing because my thinking

was stunted by years of diet grocery shopping.  Haven't I always been on a

diet?  Have I ever told myself, Hey Nelse, you are not on a diet.  Heck No!  But

the list had all kinds of food from cereals and bread, to fruit and veggies, and

some desert type foods.  That was a good exercise, to realize I was not enjoying

the different foods out there.

 

Then I went to the store.  Trader Joe's is good for this.  Whole Foods too.  I

bought lots of fun stuff.  Read alot of labels, and bought regular food - not

diet, not total junk.  Bought treats, veggies, meats.  Had a great time baking

bread, making purple rice. 

 

I found myself snacking a bit.  Only on the Granola though.  So I have a trigger

food, but I am not going to eliminate foods from my house.  In a six months,

it's going to be me, and my Love, and his big growing boys.  And I have to learn

to coexist with food. So for all you Moms out there, how do you deal with the

grocery shopping and having food for all ages and needs (more processed foods)

in your house all the time.  How do you buy for everyone and then not sneak

mouthful's of Coco Puffs? 

 

Many thanks,

 

Nelse