• I want to eat whenever I am done with a long day. When I’m tired. When I’m feeling stressed or run down. Sitting down with my laptop on the couch to watch some TV in the evening is a trigger.
• I used a big plate tonight and ate more than I needed. I will continue to use the smaller plates. They are much more suited to the volume I need and don’t lead me astray so easily.
• I want to eat when I have a lot on my mind. Watched the RNC tonight to hear Palin’s speech. I am very troubled by the amount of sniping and hateful comments made by both sides of this thing. I want to keep an open mind about this election. I want to keep out of the muck-throwing that people tend to do when discussing politics. It would be so easy to soften the edges of things with a bit of comforting food…
• I’m starting to learn that the temptations do, in fact, end. The more quickly I get to “no, I’m not going to eat now” instead of hmmmming and hawwwwing over the rationalizations that inevitably appear, the more quickly I get through the intense cravings and to the “other side” of the temptation – out into peace that the battle is over and I made the right choice.

I’m up too late tonight, which means I will be that much less capable tomorrow. Not that I am ever the one with the power in this situation…but when I have not had sleep, I let things slide because I’m too tired to fight. Going now.