"Interesting" Day

Yesterday was a pretty interesting day . . . I guess "interesting" would be as good a word as any to describe it. Because of my knee injury, I was faithfully taking pain meds which then left me too dizzy to sit up for much of the day. I am on the go most of the time, and up until my injury on Tuesday, I had a very packed schedule on Wednesday. (It's funny how all of the things you think you just HAVE to do can become not so important.) Anyway, my Wednesday schedule was cleared and I spent much of the day dozing in bed, as the pain meds also made me drowsy.

In the past, this would have pushed me right into an eating frenzy as I would have rationalized that I "deserved" to eat this or that. In the past, any time I wasn't feeling well, I immediately reached for some comfort food. I will be honest and tell you that I had some of those thoughts yesterday. However, there wasn't any "comfort food" in my house (I know, because I actually looked . . . ). Because my house has been purged of all junk food, there was nothing for me to grab when I was feeling that old familiar urge to eat something. As a result, I had a Medifast maintenance bar (caramel nut, which is my favorite) and a bottle of water.

So what's the lesson here? First of all, I realized - again - that I am certainly not immune to the old temptations. Most of the time, thankfully, they don't rear their ugly heads and I do just fine. But there are those other times, although they are few and far between, and yesterday was one of those times. So I learned all over again that I cannot ever think that all of the old struggles are over forever. Forewarned is forearmed.

Secondly, because there WAS no junk food in my house, I couldn't have given in to the craving even if I wanted to (and I think I DID want to, for a moment). Had there been something in my house, I honestly don't know if I would have followed my own Stop - Challenge - Choose advice or not (I hope I would, but I can't say that for sure). However, my house was purged of junk food a long time ago, and my husband and I are committed to creating and maintaining an environment that supports what we really want - thin and healthy bodies.

Because we've made those choices and maintain a "clean house", it helped me make the choice I needed to make yesterday. I'm so thankful I did! I know that if there had been contraband food in the house and I'd eaten it to "make myself feel better," I would have regretted it as soon as it was gone. It's not that I can't have some of that food on occasion, because I can, but I never want to slip back into old patterns of stuffing my emotions with food. That is a very dangerous and very slippery slope!

I really encourage you today to create an environment that supports what you really want. If you have to have junk food in the house for other family members (you might want to ask why anybody in your house is eating that stuff!), put it in a place that's not convenient for you - get it out of sight and keep it there. That will make it easier to resist the temptation when it comes - and I do mean "when", not "if". Making certain choices now will make it easier to make the right choices later. Choose wisely :-)