Nice to see everyone! Great discussions...we went from covering the "animal brain," the midbrain, right to thinking about nondualism and detachment. Getting "comfortable being uncomfortable." Pretty heady stuff!
As said, addictions or compulsions involve our primitive midbrain which is primed to help us survive. Unfortunately (or fortunately), we live in a culture of abundance...hence food and its availability can be abused and misused (can you say emotional eating?)...
That is why with the LIFEstyle program there is a de-emphasis on eating (no diet!) and activity/exercise (they are essential to healthy weight change) and an emphasis on all of the other lifestyle issues , i.e. emotion management, relationship management, time management, sleep hygiene, etc.
Here's a very interesting discussion on time management from Prof. Randy Pausch (start video at 12 minutes to bypass intro's):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758
When we are "happy" with that stuff...everything else takes care of itself...
We talked about Chunking down and Compartmentalizing (C in CRAVED no more) big jobs into more manageable parts is key to SUCCESS!
We covered Responsibility, Accountability and Accomplishment as a way to stay on track...
Didn't we all feel good that we Accomplished what we said we would do from last month?! WTG RP for the new lunch time behavior change!!
Remember that it takes a Variety of strategies to stay committed...
The Canada Food Guide can help guide us with healthy Eating...
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/myguide-monguide/index-eng.php
...and don't forget that daily Exercise or Activity is required...Pedometer anyone?
And lastly, Drink healthy (low cal beverages)...if we think we are hungry and "crave" something...you may want to try drinking something...it may only be thirst calling out!
So for this month, we all made some more small lifestyle/behavior changes to be completed by next month's Lunch Club (Tuesday, November 18th):
- TC - toning exercises 5 minutes a day (5X/week)
- KL - have 3 to 4 more good conversations in the next month
- KM - 2-3000 steps per day on her pedometer (14,000 steps per week)
- RP - 10 minutes of yoga (3X/week)
- PS - 30 minute walk video (3X/week)
- for myself, I will have finished the script for the upcoming hospital smoking cessation video (last month's commitment helped me finish my book! thanks group! having someone else to answer to can be very empowering and inspiring!)
May peace and joy be with you always!
Dr.P
2 comments:
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Hi Dr. P I keep forgetting to use the pedometer but I have learned I walk a lot more than I thought! I reprogrammed it becasue it was telling me I was walking twice as much as I really was. I will try to remember to use it on my walks. I think I should read some of the books you mention on your site they look very good. I do not think our group knows the link to the Lunch club blog I just discovered it myself by reading an old link/post. Thanks KM
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