Eating

All food, with calorie counts where possible. General notes.

Food is something to bring me up when I’m down
Food is “something to do”

ACKNOWLEDGE
Eating gives me great pleasure.

EAT WHATEVER YOU WANT, WHENEVER YOU WANT!
But not wherever you want: Eat only in certain places

YOU ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU EAT AND DRINK
Write it all down

(Public page here)

YOU NEED RULES
Office:
No eating in the cubicle.
Water only in the cubicle
Maximum 2 cups of coffee.
Stay out of the kitchen (don’t use the microwave, toaster, or coffee maker. Fridge is ok for storage only, not for grazing).

Home:
Eat only in the dining room (or at the dinner table, if we’re eating outside.)

I made the move to Fitday

Come on in, the Fitday’s fine!

I’m finding the no food in cubicle rule GROWING in effectiveness. If I get hungry, I examine the hunger – am I hungry enough to get up and go to the vendo? Am I hungry enough to, God Forbid, break my no food in cubicle rule?

Usually not.

This is so similar to my method I used for quitting smoking that it gives me great hope for being a lifetime achievement on the order of quitting smoking. I always thought that the limitation of applying my method for quitting smoking to food is – you can’t quit food! Well, you can’t. But you can’t quit breathing, either – and smoking is a form of breathing, if you will. It’s HOW and WHAT you breathe (and eat) that matters.

When I quit smoking, I examined my craving and put out the cigarette as soon as I recognized the craving was gone. There’s a slight shift in this approach to eating, but it’s still similar enough to be the same thing. I’m limiting my access to food – there’s probably a better way to express this but I don’t have it right now – I must move out of my comfort zone to get the food. Food is no longer a default part of my comfort zone. Getting food requires more effort than I’m willing to put into satisfying the craving. Something like that. Shifted.

Created this page.

I want accountability for my eating.

New rules:

No eating in the cube. Not even good food. Funny thing – I made that rule in my head while walking to the vendo for yogurt. Yeah, good idea. As I’m walking in, I think, “Yep. I’ll sit right down at one of these tables and eat my yogurt, then get back to work.”

I only just remembered that now. The idea didn’t stay with me long enough to stop me from walking back to my cube and eating while reading blogs.

That’s cool, just do it from now on. No Eating In The Cube.

I need to clean my desk chair, too.

Anyway.

I decided to hold off breakfast until I got hungry. I got hungry around 10:00 and drank a 2nd cup of coffee…mistake.

ONLY ONE CUP OF COFFEE

I’ll make a note with my new eating rules.

Intake

Breakfast
2 cups of coffee
Water
1 yogurt 60 cal. 0 fat

Lunch at the Chinese Buffet
1 dumpling
1 bowl of soup
2 Phoenix Dragon rolls
1 spoon of crab salad
1 teriyaki chicken
green beans
salt & pepper chicken
mussels
small scoop fried rice
coconut chicken

Dinner
A small handful of tortilla chips. No, really.

I was in the kitchen doing the dishes when I had a thought of eating. The kitchen is the place to do that (New eating rule: Eat only in the dining room (at home.)) But I didn’t want to stay in the kitchen! I wanted to go do stuff elsewhere in the house!

This is pretty powerful.

I deleted all the old food notes, but kept a few general notes. All my food is on FitDay from now on.