So last week, I actually ate very well with lots of protein and fiber.
But then I saw family and they wanted me to send them food over Door dash, and then I kept getting chocolate sweets for myself over the weekend. I was also on my period with extreme fatigue, but I'm sure a lot of that was related to it.
Interestingly, I spoke with my therapist about difficulty with losing weight and eating, and they highly think that it's due to the stress of living near family. There's definitely codependency where I have to stop everything to help them for a last minute ask, which is draining. I feel like I'm 60 years old half the time, but I'm 26 - my parents are the ones who are 60, I just end up fixing their problems. I'm leaning towards cutting them off for a while and seeing if I can lose weight or not. Or moving 30 miles away, so closer to my office and more expensive, but definitely worth the piece of mind because I'm NOT dealing with downtown traffic to do something as idiotic as helping to change batteries or driving them to and from appointments (they're scared of driving). I'm pretty much enabling them - they can figure things out for themselves.
I'm meeting with my nutritionist every week and have gotten back on schedule with the eating habits - it takes a while to go back to my regular eating schedule after eating too many sweets/binging, so definitely another reason to see if being far away from family helps out.
I bought a book on cooking and want to finish it pretty soon and try out the recipes! After I do that, I'm going to start studying for technical interviews to move back to my favorite city! The market is sort of opening up, I think I've been too languid/stressed out with family and probably used food as a way to avoid dealing with that
R4: Day 21 of Cooking more and Eating out Less
So last week, I actually ate very well with lots of protein and fiber.
But then I saw family and they wanted me to send them food over Door dash, and then I kept getting chocolate sweets for myself over the weekend. I was also on my period with extreme fatigue, but I'm sure a lot of that was related to it.
Interestingly, I spoke with my therapist about difficulty with losing weight and eating, and they highly think that it's due to the stress of living near family. There's definitely codependency where I have to stop everything to help them for a last minute ask, which is draining. I feel like I'm 60 years old half the time, but I'm 26 - my parents are the ones who are 60, I just end up fixing their problems. I'm leaning towards cutting them off for a while and seeing if I can lose weight or not. Or moving 30 miles away, so closer to my office and more expensive, but definitely worth the piece of mind because I'm NOT dealing with downtown traffic to do something as idiotic as helping to change batteries or driving them to and from appointments (they're scared of driving). I'm pretty much enabling them - they can figure things out for themselves.
I'm meeting with my nutritionist every week and have gotten back on schedule with the eating habits - it takes a while to go back to my regular eating schedule after eating too many sweets/binging, so definitely another reason to see if being far away from family helps out.
I bought a book on cooking and want to finish it pretty soon and try out the recipes! After I do that, I'm going to start studying for technical interviews to move back to my favorite city! The market is sort of opening up, I think I've been too languid/stressed out with family and probably used food as a way to avoid dealing with that