Been tackling things related to diet, eating, and weight, etc., now that I can breath a bit.
Cool thing I found...
I eat when I'm bored (a common thing). I like food. I eat food. I get a dopamine hit. Yay.
In order to address this specific area, I bought a lot of different chewing gums. Really diving into the various fruit flavored ones (I really dont like mint). I bought a lot of different flavors.
So when I'm bored. I chew a fun fruit flavored one, or two or three.
Seems to scratch that itch. I'm not perfect with it. But it has drastically reduced the amount of boredom eating I do. I know so many folks do this (chewing gum works for other things like smoking, as well right?).
So, nothing ground breaking. Just wanted to share that it's working for me.
I've taken care of stress eating (it's still a thing, but I've addressed it and it seems to be working for now). I have now addressed boredom eating. I still "autistic burnout" eat? But that's usually only once a week or every other week and three-fourths of a medium pizza does the trick - when the brain gets fried, it needs grease apparently... no idea...
Turns out I don't need to eat a lot when I just eat for sustenance.
My goal is to lose 1 pound a week and I've been pretty solid with that. But with the chewing gum hack removing boredom eating, I lost 2.5 pounds last week.... huh.... I should watch that, too. Seems to be too quick. We'll see if it becomes a trend.
Cool thing I found...
I eat when I'm bored (a common thing). I like food. I eat food. I get a dopamine hit. Yay.
In order to address this specific area, I bought a lot of different chewing gums. Really diving into the various fruit flavored ones (I really dont like mint). I bought a lot of different flavors.
So when I'm bored. I chew a fun fruit flavored one, or two or three.
Seems to scratch that itch. I'm not perfect with it. But it has drastically reduced the amount of boredom eating I do. I know so many folks do this (chewing gum works for other things like smoking, as well right?).
So, nothing ground breaking. Just wanted to share that it's working for me.
I've taken care of stress eating (it's still a thing, but I've addressed it and it seems to be working for now). I have now addressed boredom eating. I still "autistic burnout" eat? But that's usually only once a week or every other week and three-fourths of a medium pizza does the trick - when the brain gets fried, it needs grease apparently... no idea...
Turns out I don't need to eat a lot when I just eat for sustenance.
My goal is to lose 1 pound a week and I've been pretty solid with that. But with the chewing gum hack removing boredom eating, I lost 2.5 pounds last week.... huh.... I should watch that, too. Seems to be too quick. We'll see if it becomes a trend.
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