Level 3: Mushroom, Mushroom... A SNAAAAAKE! [3/27/22 | 250.2 lbs]

Behavior chains.

General Notes

Yesterday was... rough. I have a habit of things going pretty well in terms of eating until late in the day. Then I finish dinner, and still feel a bit hungry, and just have this habit and urge to binge on junk. Sometimes I ignore it, sometimes it abates, sometimes I deal with it moderately.

Yesterday, I got pizza (~500 cal) and a bag of Hershey drops (1,050 cal). That's an entire extra day's worth of eating shoved into the evening time. 

A delicious offender.

I saw the title of the next Noom article in my list: "Break Down Your Bad Habits." Hopefully that will help.

That said, I also had a wonderful dinner and want to share that. A poke bowl!

Brown rice, raw tuna, crab salad, avocado, cucumber, little crispy things too.

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Daily Article Notes

Relevant notes from my daily set of Noom articles.

• Bad habits are caused by "behavior chains":
• 1) Trigger: an environmental, biological, mental, emotional, or social cue that starts the chain off.
• 2) Thoughts: mental reactions caused by the trigger.
• 3) Actions: the physical step of putting the thought into practice
• 4) Consequences 
• physical
• psychological
• emotional
• So let's look at this in the context of what happened yesterday, and many, many prior days. The scenario where I finish eating, meet my nutritional and calorie goals, and then have the urge to binge.
• Core triggers: Procrastination, the sense of "I should be DONE," and proximity (being close the store where I go buy the junk food).
• The main thought: "It sounds so good and satisfying, and I can't resist."

We'll continue exploring this later. This is a good starting point.