Mindless Eating

Before I get started talking about mindless eating - a quick progress update. I weighed in with the PT this morning, and I was down by 1.2kgs from last tuesday!!! This is a fantastic result and I am very pleased. I am over the dehydration of food poisoning now so this loss is all mine!

I went home from work early on Monday, and had yesterday (tuesday) off, as I was still very tired after the weekend.  This was great, I had a good rest and completed some tasks that had been on my list for ages, like making up the last of my C25K MP3s.

The thing is, when I’m at home alone is a real danger time for habit eating for me. It’s not really emotional eating, or bordom eating, it’s just mindless nibbling for the sake of it.

Now, this hasn’t been a problem for me for a few months now, simply because I haven’t been keeping snack foods in the house. The only snacks I’ve been having are those that are fruit, or those that require preperation such as eggs on toast. if it’s not there, I can’t eat it.

But this week while meal planning, I decided that my morning work snacks would be a brand of crispbread that I am really fond of and can eat whole packets of in one sitting (Kraft Premiums). So there was a whole packet of them in the house.

What this resulted in yesterday and Monday was about 200cals excess for each day. It’s not too bad, but it IS a bit disheartening. All my work on developing the right attitude to food crumbled at the first test. Does this mean that I can’t have them in the house EVER? What happens if I meet someone and have a family? I won’t be able to impose my diet habits on them. I really need to find a way to be able to keep certain foods in the house without deviating from my plan.

I’m not sure how I will do this yet, but it is something I will be thinking about a lot in the near future. I need to develop strategies to deal with this NOW, while my motivation is high.

In the meantime, the Premiums have been moved to a drawer in my deskat work, and when I plan to have them for morning snacks I will just bring in the toppings to have with them.