I decided that I am going to get this extra weight off once and for all and that is not helping. That means no emotional eating for me and I really need it today. I guess I have to find another way to cope. That’s what it’s all about anyhow when making changes. I will have to replace the bad habits with good ones. So I guess my feelings of doom and despair are really helping me deal with changing the bad habit of emotional eating. Nice. Because I want to get this weight off I weighed myself this morning. I actually have 22.6 pounds to lose instead of 20. I’m going to eat 1500 calories a day which is 388 less than I need to maintain. Of course these are all estimates. That means to lose 2 pounds a week I have to exercise off the additional 612 calories. I’ll get about 300 from my walks and then I have to figure out what else I will do for the rest. I have a list of things to choose from ranging from exercise videos to jumping rope. I even put playing music and juggling on it. I don’t think I will count those as exercise although they do count as activity.
Something I am going to do besides exercise to break the emotional eating habit is knit or crochet. I’m not very good at it but it is very calming. I’m going to make hats and scarves and give them to a charity that distributes them to the homeless. Knot 2b Forgotten Then I have another charity that I will make squares for and they put them together to make blankets. Share a Square On one hand I would like to be able to send them a ton of stuff. But that would mean that the hard times are continuing. I have a lot of yarn from my life before I was broke so that will keep me going for a while. I guess I can still make things even when my mood changes. I’ll just have to find another bad habit to break!!
Later
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