Lent

By no means am I in church every sunday, saying prayers every night or asking someone to forgive all of the bad things I have done in life.  Religion is a touchy subject for me but I am none-the-less giving up something for lent.  Now this is supposed to be giving up something that you like; gum, chocolate, coffee etc.  and so you say what do you like so much that you are willing to give up for so long?  Binge eating..it's really a love/hate relationship.  I love food, always have, I am italian with a family that owns an italisn resturant, father bakes his own bread and is an excellent shit.  Crap, I have pics of me near and arounda pizza before I even had a clue.  My family was one to alwaus have extras on the table, mother always asking me if I wanted more and even after declining six times was still asked just once more before asking me if I was going to have room for dessert!  I see my Dad still coming home from work to this day and opening the cupboard in search of a snack, eating it and then going back.

I am not by any means trying to come up with excuses, but these are REASONS why food is always on my mind.  Fast forward to now and my schedule for the week is so jam packed with things to do; class, working two jobs, internship, training and trying to sleep and have a social life and my mind is ALL over the place.  My coping mechanism has been food for a long time.  I have journals upon journals of myself talking about my binge eating, I have been to OA meetings online and in person, I even STARTED competing because I wanted to help myself.  I have yet to figure out a solution to end the binge eating as so I have decided to take on the biggest challenge of my life and go from February 22nd-April 14th without binging.  Now since we are learning how to set goals in internventions, I will write it out:

Talia will not binge eat as evidenced by wwww.livestrong.com daily plate calorie tracking from Wednesday February 21st,2012-April 14th, 2012.  A total of 51.5 days.  To avoid setting myself up for failure, I will define binge eating for myself and other objectives so that if all objectives are met, I will be successful which I KNOW I can be!

Objective 1- Binge eating is described as more than just over eating; I know I can not be perfect so to say that I will not binge AND not over eat is setting myseld up for failure, so binging is eating a food that will trigger me to continue on eating more and more foods and end up consuming over thousands of calories.

Objective 2- Have a plan for the days worth of eating as set forth by Ron

Objective 3- Be prepared for each day

Objective 4- Use positive self-talk

Objective 5- Blog feelings along the way

Objective 6- USE MY RESOURCES, friends, family and all others involved in my life to help me be successful!

Objective 7- Take life slow, minute by minute, meal by meal

Objective 8-Imagine success and be successful!