Thursday, August 1, 2013

My idea of marketing -- is begging

Yeah, I know I have been HORRIBLE at blogging here. Work is crazy, life is crazy (how crazy is life? read about it here). Meanwhile I have been blogging for work here. I have to admit it's nice to blog for work, I feel like it's part of patient education which is one of the most favortist part of my position. I love talking to our patients about what to expect, how to take care of themselves and giving them encouragement.  The center's blog is an extension of that.  Our latest entry was about Mindful Eating. Have any of you thought of Mindful Eating? Our counselor talked about it at our support group and it makes so much sense. I think as over weight/obese people we sometimes feel like we aren't allowed to enjoy our food -- it's a guilty pleasure -- a lot of us (me included) call pictures of decadent desserts "food porn" porn....Mindful Eating gives us permission to enjoy our food, be in the presence of it and by doing so we end up eating less because we've used all our senses. So really more art than porn. Even before this subject came up I would notice our registered dietician would eat her lunch on a plate (a real one, not a paper one) in the kitchen.  I eat my lunch out of a baggie at my desk which is hardly a way to connect with food, enjoy it with my senses and get any kind of satisfaction. It can also be messy

Hmmmmm....

She's also got a great body and is super healthy.

Me, not so much.

Now, I know that's not the ONLY reason she looks the way she does, there's hard work and genetics involved -- but it's one of her tools.

I like how Mindful Eating helps establish a relationship with food, rather than trying to brush food under the rug and make it a dirty little secret.  We all need food, we should be allowed to enjoy it. If you want to read more about how it works...click here I also included other sites.

So, yeah, blogging for work = fun. Not blogging at home = big frowny-face.

We had a marketing meeting yesterday and I heard a lot of "Tracey needs to...." (ok, not a lot, maybe once or twice -- it's not really about me -- sigh, as much as I think it should be) -- so I said, "Tracey's a nurse, Tracey doesn't know much about marketing).  Looks like Tracey needs to get it together and figure out marketing really quickly.  I spent the wee hours of this morning trolling Facebook pages to "like" and now I'm going to try my version of marketing which is begging....please please like our center's FaceBook page. I do most of the updates and I post informative, inspirational and sometimes funny information so it won't be too painful to like us.

Okay -- August -- I will be better about blogging.

I promise...well sort of...

8 comments:

  1. I like you!!! And I liked your page. :) Good luck with the marketing stuff, I know it can be tough.

    Mindful eating is something I definitely struggle with, and I know I enjoy my food way more when I pay attention to it. Thanks for the reminder!

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    1. I like you too -- and you're always an inspiration!

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  2. I will have to give more thought to this Mindful Eating. I have read about it before so I get the idea. I have never practiced. I often eat in front of the TV so I'm distracted. Probably why I got to 270 in the first place. : )
    Thanks for sharing with us. I love the idea of food art rather than pr0n. : )

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    1. yes...i do the mindless eating in front of the tv too and i've been doing it more and more lately which is probably a bad thing a year after surgery -- i so need to get back into the mindful eating thing.

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  3. I think I actually enjoy my food much more now than I did prior to surgery...I used to eat so fast I'm not even sure I tasted the food. Now that I have to chew food so long it has made me realize that some of the things I used to eat I really don't like all that much :)

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    1. isn't that funny -- food i thought I'd miss i don't find as enjoyable now...except cheetos...i can still down cheetos no problem

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  4. Begging works - Liked the page! Mindful eating blows my mind - ha! I'll have to focus on that more. Good to see you back blogging!

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    1. thank you thank you :D I have to focus on it more too!

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