I don’t know about you, but I know why I’m fat.  I eat too much.  I eat the wrong foods and I don’t get enough exercise.  That’s what all the experts tell us over and over again.  Why?  because they’re right.

In the past, and by past I mean before my lapband surgery, I found all sorts of excuses to eat more than I should.  I used that worn out line when I went to restaurants, “They wouldn’t put this much on the plate if they didn’t think this was a standard serving size,” so I’d eat what they put on there.  It tasted good and I was enjoying myself.

Then I’d go home and I’d plate up as much dinner as I got at the restaurant – obviously they knew the correct portion size or they wouldn’t be putting it on there.  Logic says they wouldn’t give you more than you should eat because that’s wasting food if people don’t eat it.

I could go on and on with examples of how I justified eating more than my body required but deep down, I always knew that I was simply eating too much for my small body’s frame.  I’m only 5′ tall.  I’ll never need more than about 1000 calories if I don’t start moving around and exercising.

Starting last week, I’m walking for an hour a day and I’m going back to my surgeon for another fill of my lapband so that it will restrict how much I can eat.   I’m seeing a nutritional psychologist on Thursday morning to help me get a handle on emotional eating.  I’m going to start listing all the things he suggests that I do so that maybe YOU can get your emotional eating under control too.

Wish me luck!

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