Miami, Fl
In life we
all have some form of addiction. One person may be addicted to soda, and some
others to shopping. Whatever it is, at the end of the day anything to excess is
never good. The person that drinks all the soda will and can eventually get
diabetes, the one that goes shopping will just be in debt.
Now this
does not go for everyone but for most.
Addiction is
not an easy thing to just get rid of from one day to the next. Maybe for some
but it is rare.
I have spoken
about my addictions on here several times. One thing that I really want to talk
about is Binge eating, a lot of people don’t think it is such a problem of
course because most people have not had that.
Let me
explain to you what exactly happens, first how it works for me is when I am extremely
stressed out I will get very mad (that is really anxiety), and I feel like my
body is telling me I’m hungry. Really it is not hunger, so what happens next is
I can either go and make some really big meal to feed a family serve myself a
plate eat that plate and go for more, usually the plate entails carbs or starches.
Like rice oh my god how much I love rice. So I just go for more and more and
more until I can’t even breathe.
That’s the
problem I don’t give my body time to realize I’m full like a normal person. The
trick is to eat a decent size meal and wait twenty minutes so your stomach can
send the message to your brain that you have been fed, I never did that. I would
just keep going; of course that is a bad thing. Sometimes I would go to a fast
food place and order so much food. It’s like that saying you eat with your
eyes. Usually it is not when you are stressed or upset that it happens but now
your body is so use to this routine that you have made that at that time of day
you normally binge which for me it was always at night, late at night. I use to
be able to eat a whole large pizza by myself with bread sticks and a dessert. I
became large for a reason because I was not taking care of myself and it was
hard for me to get out of that routine or the vicious circle that I was in.
when you finally decide one day that you want to change that you are so sick of
this person that you have become, there will be this click or a light bulb that
just turns on and makes you realize that you cannot keep living like this.
What made me
want to write about this was because just last week I was stressed about some
stuff going on in my life, I was not able to go work out last week because of
my schedule of work it didn’t give me the time to do it. So one thing just
triggered me, and I went crazy I had so much chocolate and I ate fast food, which
I rarely do. Let just say I binged and felt so horrible after and was upset
with myself to reverting back to my old ways, and was scared that I wouldn’t be
able to stop.
I said to
myself that I was not going to continue to do this to myself and that I am not
going to get back to the way that I was.
Today even
though I was tired from work, when it was time to go to crossfit, I went and I felt
ten times better.
So for those
people that are suffering from some sort of addiction whether it be food or
other things try to find something healthy to do, realize that you don’t have
to continue the way you are living, you can choose to change yourself but it is
only you that makes that decision, no one can tell you to do something or
change that one thing that you may not like. Trust me it is not an easy road it
is always a constant battle especially with the stresses of life that come your
way. So try to maybe go for a walk and then make it a longer walk the next day
and little by little you add more. You don’t have to go crazy and join crossfit
or something like that, start off slow. That is exactly how I did it, I started
walking in my neighborhood then I joined a gym, and now I am in crossfit, and
to be honest I love it so much it is the best thing that I decided to do. I’ve met
extremely cool ass people who motivate me every day when I am there. Especially
my coach she is Amazing!! She is so sweet but still pushes you and motivates
you so much.
Hope this
has inspired you in some way.
Sincerely
Catalina
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