9/21 Something to think about...

[Billie]

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the moment it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

We all have some similarities with food challenges, however we meet and face our challenges all differently. I was wondering if I could ask today, how you face challenges, food or personal, whatever they maybe. Are you the kind that barrel through them and crash afterwards? Are you thoughtful and contemplative? Do you wring your hands with frustration? How do you face your challenges? Especially how do you face food challenges? How do you feel after you have gotten through a challenge successfully?

Food for thought today and sharing your expertise at handling challenges on this plan.

Have a great day!

[cmcole]

How I handle challenges really depends on my mindset at the time.

[gitfiddle]

All of the above. The more serious it is the more likely I am to draw on what inner strength God gives me. Little things are more likely to evoke frustration because I handle them on the surface.

If I can put my WOE in the "serious" category, which it is, but I mean more serious than anything else I'm facing at the moment, I manage it well. My feeling afterwards is upbeat. When I'm in "frustration" mode and angry, hurt, scared (mostly boils down to angry) then I have great difficulty.

[hawk]

I feel it is always a choice with me . So the thinking comes into play. When I over carb myself, my brain gets like an addict and gets ravenous and then it is hard to think. When I stay very close to 20 carbs, I have less brain problems and can be rational and think things through.I take protien shakes in a can with me to get me through some of the times I cannot get to food so I don't get the brain thing going (shakey, iratable,fuzzy thinking) and then grab anything I can find without thinking.
The monkey tends to hop back on my back if I don't think things through.