Focus on Yourself Instead of Food Addictions
Learn to focus on yourself for once. Even though you have chosen a long road that will have many obstacles for you to overcome for your food addiction, you are still persevering and trying not to let any setbacks keep you down. Most likely you are harder on yourself than anyone else is. Why not start praising yourself for all that you’ve done? So what if you had a hard day yesterday, are you going to dwell on it or are you going to pick yourself back up and keep fighting for what you truly want?
Today do something good for yourself. Something that shows that you are going to try to be more accepting of yourself. What about buying a new outfit so that you don’t have to feel frumpy with your current clothes? Buy yourself something you feel good wearing. Maybe you would prefer to do a random act of kindness – that always makes me feel good about myself. Another option is to pamper yourself by getting a massage, a facial, a manicure, or a pedicure. If it’s been awhile since you’ve seen your friends, why not get some friends together and catch up? Just do yourself a favor by doing something for you that will put a smile on your face and make you forget about your food addiction.
When I broke out of my shell and started doing things that made me feel good about myself, I noticed my whole outlook on life in general looked better. I didn’t focus on what was wrong with me. I didn’t beat myself up over the things that I did not have the ability to change. Instead, I was more positive and felt like the battle to beat my food addiction was more attainable than ever. I felt a new confidence come over me and I wanted to push myself to the limits to see what I could accomplish. Honestly, for the first time in my life, I knew deep down inside me that I would beat my food addiction. I just had a gut feeling… and my feeling was right because I’ve been binge-free for nearly three years now.
As you know, there are struggles with everything in life, but I want you to know that the reward of overcoming your food addiction outweighs any of the hard times you may experience. I can’t wait until you surprise yourself with things that you didn’t think were possibly because of compulsive eating. It’s really such an amazing feeling!
It has been about a week since i binged,had to really try hard this weekend, instead i moved furniture.My 4 year old daughter told me i need to go on a diet. I know she got this from the things i say. I pray she doesn’t take on my body image problems.