Breaking Bad Habits

I work from home. I’m a freelance writer and I do website design. What that means is I spend a lot of my day sitting at my desk. One of my biggest challenges has been to eat at the kitchen table, rather than my desk. It’s so easy to make something and bring it back to where I’m working.

I started challenging myself to eat at the table back in September, and still here I am in February, catching myself bringing food to my desk at times, not even thinking about it. Sometimes I’m aware what I’m doing, other times, I’m so engrossed in my project, I just grab something and come back to what I’m doing.

That’s not being mindful, if I just eat and keep working. I’m supposed to stop, and think about the food that I’m eating, not work on a design or write an article.

In the case of a smoothie, it goes down like a drink, and I keep my water at my desk, but I have to remember it’s a meal. I tell myself that I’ll sit at the table next time, and sometimes I just don’t. I don’t want to be distracted from a thought process. The problem is, I’m not recognizing I’m eating when I go to my desk. It’s a daily struggle with me, and I’m winning this battle more times than not these days, though I can’t say I’ve conquered this. I truly haven’t.

What patterns are you having a difficult time with?