Question: How do you maintain productive eating patterns and/or get yourself on track when derailed?

@StayFITTer Thank you so much for this opener. I love the flow chart. Emotional eating is such a hard thing to conquer or balance.

My mother just sold the one place my daddy built from the ground up. My whole family is not dealing well as this was the place we ran to when life got to be too much. I understand that she was having problems taking care of it but we had offered to take it over and she could live with us. I wanted to turn it into an Airbnb and we could work it together. She would be able to visit and also be able to buy her a house as it would have given her a fantastic return as it is in a remote but close enough spot in the mountains. You know the kind of spot people want to visit. She just did not have the vision of how it could take care of all of us. She has always been short sighted and has never seen the long game. I can't help she is mad that daddy died. She may have a new house but it is not ever going to replace the cabin. With our relationship right now, she will be lucky if any of us ever visit her "new and shiny" place. There is such a fine line between love and hate and I just hope she hasn't crossed it with me and my kids. I really do need a punching bag to hit right now. Trust me I am trying not to eat the whole kitchen. I have been staying focused and tracking. I can say I am going to miss being able to go to the mountains to find my center. Someone else will be there.

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How do you maintain productive eating patterns and/or get yourself on track when derailed?

Probably the biggest thing I do is not hardly have any ultraprocessed or sugary foods in the house. Today I was still thinking about the thing about treats from yesterday--- and I think that little rebel part of me practically said, ¨yeah, I will show you that you are not done with me¨, in regards to my answer of yesterday, when I could hardly think of any ¨treats¨ I had had for months. I did not have any extra dark chocolate in the house and after my workout I wanted some, and remembered the sugar free chocolate chips in the cupboard from making keto ice cream several months back. I had some of them (but looked at the nutritional value, 100 calories) and then decided to fill the cup with yogurt and keto granola.

Fortunately I was still of a mind to get all my nutrition and fit it in with an extra healthy supper.

The video today really went well with what I have been thinking about in terms of sugar addiction. I remember learning that one huge problem that addicts to drugs face is that the use of drugs then changes the chemical responses of the pleasure center of the brain and they become less able to experience the natural pleasure from life. I remember thinking, oh, how incredibly sad, I never want to use drugs so I never lose the ability to enjoy the natural little pleasures of life. I think, for me, a similar thing happens with sugar and ultraprocessed foods-- when I avoid them long enough I can get a lot of pleasure eating healthy foods and I really do not need to treat myself with sugar or the traditional treats that my family gave me as a child or out culture defines as treats--- but when I eat them more than just a tiny bit-- they make me unable to get much pleasure from things like fresh vegetables, leafy greens, etc. For that reason, I am trying to think differently about what are ¨treats¨ and to think differently about my ¨wants¨ and what is desirable. I think it is worth focusing on ¨what is the ¨sweetness of life¨ that is not from processed sugar?