*Trigger warning* Eating for Health and Wellness

[Guest_1055]

I have been struggling eating and eating healthy foods over the last couple of weeks. I really do not want to go back further to how I use to eat, that is eating junk food, takeaways, copious amounts of chocolate, processed junk and comfort eating.

Finding it challenging to stay motivated to actually prepare what I know helps me feel better mentally, emotionally and physically. Plus I have been feeling overwhelmed with other stuff happening in my life, which somehow makes it more challenging. The old unhealthy comfort eating thing is coming back. And I think I am getting concerned and scared about that. I so much do not want to go back to how I use to be. I was so sick. Plus I now have some physical things not right in my body , so I need to be more careful and mindful of what I eat. ( Pre cancer cells , high blood pressure )

I was eating really well since Febuary of this year, it’s just the last couple of weeks I haven’t.

So I would like to use this thread to help me be accountable to Beyond Blue people. So like a diary where I can post and report what I eat. And also any healthy eating tips, motivating strategies to help eat better or anything related to healthy eating for our bodies including our mental health.

[monkey_magic]

Hey Shell,

Congrats on eating so well. So food can really effect our emotional well- being by the sounds of it.

I had an Isagenix shake today with blueberries
Chicken, rice, veg, and terryaki sauce
4 x melted cheese on toast
I chocolate
Drumstick mini ice cream
Mini frozen yoghurt
Rice, cheese, bacon, terryaki sauce
Scrambled eggs n bacon.

I've eaten when I'm hungry and splurged a bit today.

I will do better 2 morrow

[Guest_1055]

Hey MM how you going?

Yeah my emotions are all over the place when I eat junk. I am not sure if it has to do with the refined sugar highs and lows in our bloodstream.

Blueberries are super good for us.

You will get there Steph

[May Tee Tee]

Refined sugars and fast acting natural sugars are metabolising similarly.

Either way your body craves them like nicotine.

Deal with the addiction and your emotions level out.

Hope this helps.

[Guest_1055]

Hello

Breakfast.... Scrambled tofu with tomato and spinach. ( tofu, tumeric, onion powder, garlic powder, cumin, salt)

1 orange

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Still feeling relatively emotionally calm. On day 3 with no junkfood. However cravings for chocolate and a cream bun are here. Gosh wanting a cream bun is very strong. All the other times I have gone of junkfood I would normally get a headache and feel like I have been run over by a bus. Normally on late day 3 and day 4. I am not feeling any of that. I know those are detox symptoms..

[Guest_1055]

Thankyou May Tee Tee

[Guest_1055]

Had cravings a lot of the morning for a cream bun and chocolate. Even made this chocolate concoction out of some avocado, banana and cacao powder. But it was not nice 👎 So only ate 1 spoon full.

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Snack... Banana

Lunch... Orange, banana, spinach, flax seeds and coconut water smoothie.

Cold roast sweet potato chunks

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[Guest_1055]

Had cravings for chocolate a lot of the afternoon. Did not eat any. Feel tired. Still feel much clearer in the head. And my emotions are stable. Like I don't feel as jumpy, sad, or easily frustrated as before.

Also did online woolworths grocery shopping this time. As I did not trust myself to go into the store with these cravings of choc. I so much want to be free from this addiction and bingeing

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Snack... Cold sweet potato chunks, dates

Dinner.... We got subway. 6inch rye with falafels, lettuce, spinach, tomato, carrot, cucumber, capsicum

Iced chocolate made like the other times

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[Guest_1055]

Late last night I ate:

1kg grapes and a couple dates

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Breakfast.... Baked Beans ( canellini beans, canned tomato, onion, garlic, salt, smoked paprika, nutritional yeast)

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Currently I am out sitting in the car. I dropped someone of at work. Thing was most of the trip I was thinking about chocolate and where I could get some and what kind. The cravings were strong. I find myself looking for bakeries as I was passing shop after shop. A cream bun. Still wanting one as I write this.

Not feeling particularly sad. But lonely I guess.

[Guest_1055]

Just reporting that I went downhill, fell of the wagon or whatever you want to call it. I now feel disappointed with myself. And frustrated. And I ate something that I have not eaten for over 3 years. My thoughts have been almost continually on food. There is more to life then food. I know that logically. So I wish my brain would stop thinking about it.

I tried to eat mindfully the food I did eat. But did not do too well. Just sort of scoffed it. My tummy feels stretched and no longer light. And I can hear my heart beat in my head. I just feel like lying down.

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60 gm chocolate (loving earth, free from dairy and refined sugar)

6 KFC chicken nuggets and small chips

180 gm snack chocolate

Lots of water

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Eating the KFC was weird. I don't eat meat or chicken and haven't for a while. But I use to. I had an intense craving for it as I was driving home, and knew there was a drive through. So yeah. Just got it without much thought. Wish I didn't now.

👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[Guest_1055]

So very sick of this. My thoughts just want quit thinking about. I no longer desire any food at all