Feeling sad

I find I slip into night time eating out of habit and that feeling of "me time". I now brush my teeth when I get my son to bed and still watch some TV to relax but from my lap top in my bedroom. I'm more likely to snack in my living room but not my bedroom. It's a hard habit to break but changing up my routine and location has helped.

Parenting is hard - especially on your own. Take care mama!

Do you know why you binge?

One of the roadblocks I faced was that I'm a night owl and when I hit a certain level of exhaustion I start to 'carb crave' and there is no amount of carbs or food that can satisfy. I was eating because I was exhausted, not because I was hungry. I've learned now to identify that and get rest without feeding the craving. I know what it is, I know why it is there and that empowers me to choose instead of just trying to distract or appease my brain.

I try to ask myself, if I am looking to eat, if I am really hungry or just bored to where I am feeling that I want to eat. A lot of times I will put it down and walk away.
Don't be discouraged. Today is a new day and things will balance themselves out. Don't let one bad night get you down for too long.

Drinking hot tea helps me curb cravings at night - there's a million different kinds, find something you enjoy to sip on!

If you're like me, you have a voice in your head that can be quieted for a time, but uses any opening to pipe up again. The voice wants you to know you won't succeed, and uses any "failure" as evidence of this. I'm still figuring this out, but what works for me is to stop beating myself up by quickly labeling any choice that's not perfect as some big deal, or "evidence," combined with trusting that if I -- even when I'm sad or not feeling confident -- return to the routines that make me feel strong, that I can keep the voice at bay. The longer I wait to get back on track, the harder it is to shut up the negativity.

I think you can binge, shrug it off as an occasional thing, and then make sure it IS an occasional thing, or you can allow that binge to become something that will snowball into something that really does halt or reverse your progress.

Again, if you're like me, you are capable of sabotaging yourself because you -- for whatever reason -- want to sabotage yourself. Sometimes you listen to the voice because there's a miserable satisfaction and familiarity in listening to the voice.

But you continue to have a choice to choose your normal, the things you do most of the time, and your choices renew every single moment. Your binging yesterday has nothing at all to do with what you do right now unless you tie those things together. Tie together the things that make you feel good, shrug off the things that make you feel bad as flukes.

Just like you have -- if you're like me -- a mean, cruel little voice telling you that you're not whatever enough that you can believe, you have or can find a voice that tells you this THIS is who you are when you do something worth celebrating.

If you're the woman who binged, you're also the woman who "...did so well. I logged everything, I felt positive, I felt excited." Why judge yourself by the binge instead of the other stuff, especially knowing that which one you chose to believe is you is the one that gets to speak to you?

Idk if you believe in God but I pray that you trust in Jesus and ask Him to help heal your soul and health. Keep the faith. Remember, a setback is a set up for a comeback!
Peace and love.