After my short shift this morning I headed towards my old neighborhood to see my doctor. My foot issue is ongoing and I need it taken care of before the marathon!
I had an AMAZING honeycrisp apple and a vitawater on the way. 
I hit up the doctor and the bank before stopping by my mom’s. If you’ve read the blog since it started sucked you might remember I lived here most of the early years. Right out of college I worked as a recruiter and would work from home 2 days a week from this place. I look back on that time with mixed feelings because it was a happy time in my life, but I had a lot of big struggles with bingeing and overeating.
Even though I’m still working on it everyday, I have gotten a lot better about random snacking. I look back on many of those posts from two-three years ago and realize I was constantly eating, binging or starting a new diet of sorts. Sad sad sad.
The combination of being a chubby kid and dieting in college started a vicious cycle of binging and restricting for me. Since I’m still not at goal I don’t give myself credit for the progress I have made with Intuitive Eating. I am a lot better now, just need to clean up the snacking a bit to get to goal.
I’ve been mulling all this over for a while and am going to give myself a little 90 challenge to end the year strong 
Stay tuned!
But, in the meantime I am celebrating my progress with intuitive eating! This has taken a lot of work (and is still on going) and I’m proud of it.
When I got to my mom’s I was greeted by Bailey and the Roxican. Doesn’t he look like a cow?
Of course, I did the first thing you’re supposed to do at your mom’s house – raid her fridge and pantry! SCORE! I found juicy watermelon and cheesecake factory bread (no pic).
Since I’m feeling sick I made myself some comfort food – cheese bread, watermelon…
and chicken soup.
I also grabbed several handfuls of my little brother’s gummy vitamins.
And a bite or two of dessert. I just realized I ate out of the carton while sick! Crap, I better finish that ice cream off before someone else eats it and gets sick… 
The winner of the Wish-bone Salad Dressing Sampler Pack is :
Katie: Kstevens313 – please email me your info!
Question:Give yourself credit for something about yourself or your life that you’ve improved upon (even if it’s not perfect yet!)… Please share!
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Great comment topic.
I give myself credit for being open minded. I am not the HAPPIEST about where we live now, but I keep reminding myself that EVERYTHING is what you make of it, and I can make it better with the right attitude!
Thanks, Monica!
Love gummy vitamins! I buy the big bottle for my son so I can dip into them too
I’m giving myself credit for improving as a runner. I looked back on my training runs last night and was happy to notice that I have, in fact, gotten faster (for me) in the past two months:
July 28 – 3 mile – 40:14
September 28 – 3 mile – 36:08
All the half-marathon training is paying off
LOVE this one!!! We should compare ourselves to our previous self NOT to other people!!!
I’m totally ready for something to get me motivated again. If you do a 90 day challenge…I’m in and would love to follow along. I’ve been all over the place with my working out and eating for the past few weeks. I have 2 half marathons coming up and need the push. Looking forward to hearing your plan!
My half marathon times:
2:25:37
2:12:47
2:04:41
1:44:40 (most recent race and my personal best!)
I’ve gotten a lot better at embracing rest days and listening to my body. I have also gotten better about flossing!
I’m definitely way better about my workouts. I used to not take any rest days and do intense workouts that left me drained. The only time I would take a rest day was when my body just couldn’t go any further. Since I’ve started training for a marathon, I’m way better about listening to my body and taking those rest days. I even look forward to them now.
Yes, I’m totally religious about rest days now!
I don’t throw my training plans out the window because I don’t make it through any one run. And I am more willing to rearrange the schedule to account for my actual life.
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Good for you! Can’t wait to hear about the 90-day challenge
Hope your foot starts feeling better soon.
I’ve improved at being more ‘out there’ when it comes to meeting people and making friends. I just moved to a new country (if you ever stumble across Ireland, give me a shout
), and made it a goal to myself not to shut myself off like I tend to do. So far, I met with a guy I know from college, through him, I got invited to a little informal alumni club meeting next month (which I had no idea existing). Also, I found a house with 2 fantastic housemates instead of looking for a place by myself. This is major progress!
Also, I feel you on the Intuitive Eating! I was actually seeing a therapist about my binge eating for almost a year, and now I feel like I have more control, but still stray more than I’d like to admit. I’m curious about your challenge!
I will totally hit you up if I go to Ireland!!! I was there for a few days a couple years back and it was my favorite place out there <3
hope you feel better soon!
I’m giving myself credit for recognizing when I start emotionally eating. And for getting 120 pounds off and keeping them off even though the how is still in progress.
Feel better soon!!!! Being sick is definitely no fun
Just got married!!! and I am giving myself credit for getting totally toned and in-shape, but I’m totally slipping now that the wedding is over. Any advice on how to prevent a post-wedding slump? I’m continuing to work with my trainer, but the eating is totally off track. The night-time crunchy carbs are killing me. Great during the day and terrible at night. I’m in for a 90-day challenge, too, because it will help keep me on track post-wedding.
I, as well, have been through the Intuitive Eating book. A couple of years ago a nutritionist gave it to me to help my bingeing/starving rampages. Since then, I am now at a happy and healthy weight and am very comfortable with the way I’m eating. I don’t deprive myself, yet I eat very healthy:) I never thought I would get here. And as it goes, there are still times when I realize that I’ve eaten too much and need to clean up the diet.
Thanks for sharing Ali
I hope you feel better soon! I try not to compare to others and only to compare to my previous self. I have to remember that I’m always improving in one area, even if I’m not in others (or if I’m slacking in others, as it may be right now.. *coughneedtoliftmorecough*
Wow, I didn’t realize how hard this would be until I started to actually think about it. I think I need to give myself credit for the amount of times I’ve woken up and done yoga in the mornings since I made it a goal and not on the fact that I skipped it this morning without even really thinking about it. Especially because I can just start another streak tomorrow!
Good job Amber! I need to get back to yoga.