And then I get home and think about food even more.

And being on this “diet” doesn’t help matter much, because I always have to be thinking about (planning) what I’m going to eat next. And then once I’ve figured it out, I can’t wait until I can eat it.

Remember when you were in school and class was over at 3:45 and it was 3:00 and it seemed like the clock had stopped? Every 2 seconds you’d be looking at the clock wondering why it wasn’t moving any faster.

That’s how I am all day long. I keep looking at the clock saying “is it time to eat yet?”

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I’ve been thinking alot about food lately. I mean, a LOT.

I sit at work all day dreaming about food. I keep wondering what this or that would taste like. I’ll even smell different types of food throughout the day that simply isn’t there.

Like, I’ll smell steak. Or Cheetos. Or cake. Or string cheese. … Weird, huh?

And then I get home and think about food even more.

And being on this “diet” doesn’t help matter much, because I always have to be thinking about (planning) what I’m going to eat next. And then once I’ve figured it out, I can’t wait until I can eat it.

Remember when you were in school and class was over at 3:45 and it was 3:00 and it seemed like the clock had stopped? Every 2 seconds you’d be looking at the clock wondering why it wasn’t moving any faster.

That’s how I am all day long. I keep looking at the clock saying “is it time to eat yet?”

Food is all I can think of.

I even dream in food.

The other night I had a perfectly random dream that had absolutely nothing at all to do with food, but I’ll be darned if the ground wasn’t made of gum drops!

I keep telling myself that everything will be okay and I’ll be normal if I can just stop obsessing over food.

But I can’t get it out of my head.

Like just a few minutes ago I was thinking about what I ate last Saturday and planning what I was going to eat this coming Saturday. Random, huh?

One of the tools in Weight Watchers is to be prepared whenever you’re heading into a social situation where you’ll be eating at a restaurant. They say to either go online or stop by the restaurant before hand so you can see the menu and plan what you’re going to eat so you won’t be side swiped by all of the yumminess on them menu.

Well, I’ve been doing that my whole life! Nothing new there. We’d make a plan to go out to a particular restaurant and my mind would race over the imaginary menu in my head. What would I eat? Man! I’d have it all planned out WAY before I got to the restaurant.

So that was a “tool” I didn’t have to worry about learning.

But now, I still do the same thing, but now I try to think of all the healthy things on the menu. That’s a good thing, right? But I’m still doing the basic same thing, obsessing over food.

I swear, if you guys could see all of the food thoughts that go through my head all day long, every minute of the day, you’d be shocked. Not a minute goes by in my day that I’m not thinking about some sort of food.

So what do I do with that? How can I NOT obsess over food? How can I break my life-long habit of thinking about food my every waking moment?

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