I've struggled with binge-eating. It is so easy to do. Especially when you don't have a lot of people, eating your way through stress becomes second nature. During this past year we'd all like to forget, I packed pounds on quick.
But I decided to fight back at the start of the year. Not as a sure-to-fail resolution, but because the start of the year coincided with me plumping up to a weight that wiped out some big, big improvements I'd made a decade ago in 2019.
Now, I'm doing something about it. I've worked out most days this year. I've regained some respiratory ability on cardio machines; mostly (mostly) cut out the nights of overeating; and I've lost 9 pounds this year!
And that sent me into an overeating spell tonight!
Dumb. Weak. Manageable but still dumb and weak. Anyway, I realized that, bass-ackwards as it sounds, these gains are giving me some serious stress temptation to give in to nighttime overeating. It's hard to keep that habit at bay already, but the sudden pressure of "Now you have to stay off that habit to keep any of your gains" just piles on the stress and makes giving in to food, well, embarrassingly tempting.
Hopefully someone has dealt with this. It's weird to feel stress about gains, so I really hope someone can relate.
How do you fend off the pressures of starting to make progress?
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