Definitely food for thought
OK, so keeping my weight in line is a day-to-day, week-by-week struggle. The minute I eat a little extra I gain like a pound or two. So I engage in a lot of self-talk.
I'm back to eating just fruit and plain yogurt for supper. I eat supper at (for Spain) the insanely early hour of about 6.30 or 7 PM. By 10 or so I usually have the munchies. I told myself tonight, "Yes, you're hungry, but not terribly so. A lot of people are hungry. A lot of people in this world are hungrier than you can possibly imagine.
A lot of people have died of hunger today."
That last sentence came out of my mouth before I really heard it in my head, and it stopped me cold. Yes. A lot of people have died of hunger today. Thousands, 25,000 per day according to the Internet, and probably more.
And I've got the munchies? Boo ruddy hoo.
Yeah, it's really sad. At the same time though, it sucks going to bed hungry, so why suffer if you don't have to? I always feel nauseated when I wake up in the morning when I haven't eaten enough before bed. You're right, it's nothing compared to what other people go through. We're used to having food at our fingertips while others don't. Why not just eat dinner a little later?
I know that my body is getting enough nutrition/calories. It's just that psychologically I was feeling a bit "deprived." Which is nonsense.
The nutritionist advised me not to eat after 8.30 PM to give my body a chance to process the food before bed. His advice works, I lost 40 lbs. It's amazing how few calories I actually need, before I start storing them as excess weight. I weigh 77kg and am 170 cm tall...I'm not "too thin" and never will be.
I do something similar when I find myself going on and on when I'm having a "bad" day. I say out loud to myself "WOE IS ME. My life is just so AWFUL." and kinda laugh because it really isn't. Compared to people who don't have a home, don't have enough money to eat, are desperately looking for any work, are seriously ill or injured etc. my 'bad' day isn't thaaaat bad.
I used to say "This ain't Kosovo."
Does anyone remember that old bit from Hee Haw: "Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me."
I hum that sometimes when I realise I'm starting to feel sorry for myself.
Does anyone remember that old bit from Hee Haw: "Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony on me."
I hum that sometimes when I realise I'm starting to feel sorry for myself.
Haha. I remember that. We used to watch Hee Haw every Saturday night.
Sweet! The world is full of closet Hee Haw watchers! That was a show that when I was growing up, no one, but no one! under 50 admitted to watching...but we all did!
I do something similar when I find myself going on and on when I'm having a "bad" day. I say out loud to myself "WOE IS ME. My life is just so AWFUL." and kinda laugh because it really isn't. Compared to people who don't have a home, don't have enough money to eat, are desperately looking for any work, are seriously ill or injured etc. my 'bad' day isn't thaaaat bad.
Exactly. Whenever I find myself running a litany of woes through my head --
"Ugh, I can't find the right colour nail polish and the supermarket didn't have the biscuits I wanted and it rained on me."
-- I mentally add, "I have first world problems".