Hickory Dickory Dock.
Comments(19) I’ve had a pretty significant shift in how I eat this last week or so, and I’m quite excited about it.
Many of my food rituals while dieting were built around the clock: breakfast at 6, snack at 9, lunch at 12, snack at 3:30, dinner at 6:30. I didn’t deviate from this schedule and, of course, there were also all kinds of rules about what I could eat at those times, but all in all, I was quite time-focused. Frequent small meals = calorie-burning machine, after all.
Since giving up my diet, I’ve found myself still eating on that schedule for the most part. There may have been a 10 or 15 minute window around those times, but my hunger usually appeared right on cue at those dieting times. It was a clearly a habit, and one that made me crazy.
But here recently I’ve noticed that something has sort of just clicked off in regards to the clock. I’m zooming through most of my morning without feeling like I need to eat: no 9 AM snack. I get close to my lunch break before I even feel the early stirrings of hunger. And, like, real hunger - not just a response to the clock.
This is a small thing, but it carries big importance for me. These little shifts in my thinking add up, these moments when I eat a hamburger without feeling guilty or when I snack because I’m hungry even though I just ate an hour ago or when I stop running at 2.41 miles even though I had 4 planned just because my knee feels wonky and I don’t want to injure myself.
It’s so easy not to give ourselves credit for the daily tiny steps we take, for those small choices we make that honor our bodies instead of harming them. But enough of those tiny steps?
Well, we can cover a lot of distance that way.
