I have been diagnosed with IEB and I will not let it beat me!!! PLEASE READ THIS!!!

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Sometimes I have no trouble staring down that piece of cake or that extra helping of pasta. Sometimes nothing and no one can stop me.

How often do you feel like you are so hungry that you could eat everything in sight? I feel that way every night when I get off work. Then, as I contemplate what I will gorge myself on, I stop and think…If I still feel this way when I get home I will go back out and grab whatever I want. (Living in the country tends to make you think twice before just “running” out for anything)!

Usually by the time I get home the craving is over and I am fine with my normal dinner and I am all the better for it.

What about the times when my cravings or my wants for sugar or horrible food gets in the way of my reason and I gorge myself anyway? Well I have come to know these binges as irrational eating binges or IEB’s It’s my technical term for this weird behavior, you can pronounce it by the letters or just sound it out…”IIIEEEBBBS” This is a new word and I will be using it a lot this week as it is my birthday week and I know there will be party’s involved.

More about my birthday later in the week…

So when I feel the IEB’s coming on what am I supposed to do? Call a friend? Give in and eat? Beat myself with a stick? I call it IEB for a reason. Irrational behavior cannot just be stopped, it must be reasoned with and usually the best way for me to reason with anyone, is either through typing out a post or by a song. As it turns out, reasoning with me is not that easy. After all, reasoning is basically finding a reason for something and using it to convince someone into a behavior, right? RIGHT! I know my reason for being on my Journey and I fight the IEB’s with that reason every day!!!

I have to keep myself in check all of the time. I have to keep my four key Journey ingredients protected all day every day or I will fall. Notice I said fall not fail.

Until now I have been referring to my journey in three parts, mental, physical and spiritual. I have, as of this week, added Professional to the groups because so much of my stress and my time and my energy are used up in my professional life which has now taken on a much bigger role. (Thank you Jesus)

Work seems to keep me energized, it keeps me going and it keeps my clarity crisp and refined, when I leave work I shut down most of my senses and that’s when my IEB’s kick in. It is very important that we realize what sets off our triggers and when we need the most support. If we don’t keep a firm grasp, mentally on all of life’s challenges we will give in and IEB all over the place and on every key group of our Journey and we will fall and find it really hard to get back up.

So after reading this long and winded essay, most of you are probably still looking for the point. Well, my point is this: There are times when we are all irrational and times when we all have to reason with ourselves. Don’t let food be your murder weapon after a rough day. Don’t let “unwinding” turn into unraveling, and most of all, learn what YOU are all about and figure out that being in control means commitment, and that commitment needs a reason to exist, use that reason to solve poor rationale. Then go out and live your life outside of the fear that you are not in control of your journey! That’s all guys! Have a great Monday and don’t give in to the IEB’s!!!