Thursday, August 25, 2011

[Reflect]My Name Is Jade and I'm a Processed Food Addict

This seems like a pretty obvious statement to anyone that knows me, but it's something I'm becoming increasingly aware of being an issue. I have all the classic symptoms of an addict. I make goals that I'm going to eat better, more natural foods, only to fall on my face within a matter of days and gorge out on half a box of CheezIts. Inevitably this leads to a day of binging on crap. That in turns leads to feelings of guilt. Which leads to swearing I'm going to keep to a healthy diet, starting the whole cycle over again.

This does nothing good for my waistline, my skin, my heart or my mental health. I'm 80% sure my general exhaustion, depression, plateau weight of thisclose to being obese and continuing acne problems in my 30s is a direct result of this. It's a precarious balance that makes me impatient with my family, lowers my sex drive and makes it so I generally don't want to remove my ass off of the couch.

At the end of the day, I'm not happy. I'm difficult to deal with. I know all these things. You'd think that'd be my motivation to beat the whole cycle, but I sometimes think that in my head I've doomed myself to failure before I've begun. I need to do something about my mentality though, because this is decidedly not working in the slightest.

2 comments:

  1. Wow... all this is so me too! Like, I felt you were telling someone about me this is so close to how things are for me! From the hard to deal with to the impatient with my family.. Except I dont eat, junk food other. Im down to a meal every couple of days! I wonder if it is actually time to head back to the doctor and get :my head checked:. LoL.
    Thank you for posting this.. I know it was you talking about an issue you are having, but it got me to thinking... with as much as this sounds like me.. and i think i have some things I need to take care of.
    Your amazing in more ways then you could ever know!
    Love you! <3 Rachael

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  2. Yep! Same here too. Only I do something completely self-sacrificing... I make sure my kids have all the good foods: fresh fruit, veggies, etc and eat the microwave meal for my lunches. /facepalm
    Much luck to all off us on relearning how to eat correctly.
    ~ Jo

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