I am a little discouraged about my practice of mindful eating. I didn't set a specific goal last time we met and I didn't have a specific outcome measure. As a result, not much has changed. I have continued to eat breakfast every day without doing something else at the same time, although I am still negotiating with myself about that. ("Maybe I'll just take a minute and check my email..." )and I want to stop that. I want my self talk to be more like this:"This is the rule now. No multitasking at breakfast. Just eat and stop complaining about it." During this past month I went back to eating more sugar. And, each time I ate something really sweet I wanted more of it and couldn't stop eating it. I decided to prescribe two pieces of Lindt dark chocolate for myself at night. I had noticed that this satisfied my craving for something sweet, but if I fed myself chocolate at 9 or later, when I was very tired, I couldn't stop after the two pieces. So, I began to eat them right after dinner, sort of like the "period" at the end of the meal. This has worked pretty well as I know that i can count on it, no matter what. It hasn't worked perfectly. My husband is very fond of making key lime pie and that is impossible for me to resist. Still, you can even have too much key lime pie, and after that going back to the two squares of chocolate tastes pretty good. Last thing, once I remember that I had trouble resisting something and I just imagined you all around me helping me to resist. It worked!
