{"id":29790,"date":"2013-04-10T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=29790"},"modified":"2013-04-09T08:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:17:42","slug":"emotional-detox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=29790","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Detox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently I listened to this guided meditation<\/a> and found myself relaxing just listening to it. I enjoy guided meditations a lot. While I’m not religious, I do follow a path that I believe in and meditation is a big part of that. It’s been way too long<\/em>\u00a0since I participated <\/a>in my faith. I realized it was lacking in my life by the amount of stress I was experiencing.<\/p>\n

While I am pretty open and honest on this blog, there are a lot of things I don’t address. I have to be vague once again, and I apologize, but I’ve been feeling an intense level of\u00a0dissatisfaction\u00a0with my current profession. I’ve thought about going back to school for a long time, completely changing my focus and direction, but I haven’t figured out what<\/em>\u00a0to change to….thus, no school yet.<\/p>\n

I firmly believe that emotional health is just as important, if not more important than, physical health. How many of us have struggled with depression or anxiety and not FELT motivated to workout? {Raises Hand} Been there. I was there for a long time. I was depressed that I’d “always” be fat and nothing would ever change. It was a vicious cycle.<\/p>\n

Depressed over weight –> eat to feel better –> beat self up for bingeing –> feel depressed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I found was that exercising and eating healthy DID help and DID change things. I suddenly had more energy, more optimism, more happy feelings. Endorphins are an amazing thing. But what happens when those exercise endorphins don’t work as well anymore?<\/p>\n

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Spring Cleaning for the Soul<\/span><\/h4>\n

Spring is coming soon (thankfully) and with spring comes the “Cleaning” that I routinely want to do. I want to clean my house and get rid of STUFF. I want to clean my life and discard what doesn’t work anymore. I have clothes in my closet that don’t even fit me anymore, socks with holes in them, and people in my life who feed into the negative toxicity that I’ve been feeling lately.<\/p>\n

Unresolved issues don’t go away and FOOD is not the answer. All too often I used food as a\u00a0band-aid\u00a0for hurt feelings or anger that I didn’t want to address when I did<\/strong>\u00a0have the power to change my situation. That needs to change. It may be something I always struggle with, but I am conscious and aware of it and actively trying to change the patterns.<\/p>\n

How Am I Doing It?<\/span><\/h3>\n

Keeping trigger foods out of the house<\/strong> so I don’t turn to comfort eating\/bingeing in times of stress.<\/p>\n

Look for things outside<\/strong> of what is causing me stress\/unhappiness to make me happy. Sure I can’t necessarily change a current situation but I can look somewhere else for something that will make me happy.<\/p>\n

Live in the moment.<\/strong> This one is really difficult for me because I’m a planner and I tend to think about the future<\/em>\u00a0instead of living in the moment.<\/p>\n

Focus on fixing what I CAN fix.<\/strong> I am in control of what I eat, how much I exercise and how I spend my down time. If my environment is feeling overwhelming and cluttered, I can clean it. If my mind is feeling \u00a0cluttered with “nonsense” I can try unplugging; no TV, no computer, internet break. I’m already plotting a mini weekend where I disappear without some of those things for a mental break!<\/p>\n

What about you? What are your thoughts on this?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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