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Day 15 Handling Special (Food) Events

Posted by Cheryl Miller on Apr 11th, 2010 | 2 comments home title

Spring Clean Your Body

Spring Clean Your Body Logo Recently, I celebrated my birthday. Birthdays and holidays present special eating challenges. There are family celebrations featuring a host of temptations—abundant food displays, high fat options, desserts, expectations, etc. Thankfully, for my birthday there was no birthday cake. In fact, the friends I usually celebrate with were out of town so I did not have a lot of temptations. But I noticed that eating out several times this week, even selecting the healthiest options on the menu, activated food cravings. I’ve been doing so well I thought I had escaped the cravings. Not so much!

Besides eating out a couple of times, I’ve also gotten less sleep than I need. My mother called for my birthday and we talked until past 11am. The alarm woke me at 6am … I was tired and ready to roll over.Sprin

As you have probably heard from the recovery field, it’s not a good idea to get Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired (HALT) and I was 3 of the 4. To recover and regain my balance, I went to bed the next night at 8:30 to read and fall asleep early. You’ve heard that life looks much better after a good night’s sleep.

What do you do when you have cravings? Do you cave in? Distract yourself? Go to sleep? Tell us at the comment link below.

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micki says:

04/11/2010 at 8:42 pm

Happy Belated Birthday. I’m afraid that I haven’t any craving resistance advise . . . .
Cheryl says:

04/14/2010 at 7:24 pm

I’m preparing a post on self-soothing techniques. People who have food cravings should find it helpful – so in other words, almost everyone will find it helpful