Day 3 of EAT HEALTHY!!
Didn’t I just get done saying I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions?
Yeah, well I don’t. Seriously. It just so happens, that Jan. 1 was on a Sunday this year. I do grocery shopping on Saturdays. Sunday is the perfect day to start making more healthy food choices, in an effort to maintain healthy eating habits. So it just worked out that way, really. All I really want to do every day is EAT HEALTHY!
ANY-way, today is day 3 and I think I’m actually going to make it to bedtime without binge eating anything. WOO! Sunday’s binge: garlic bread. Monday’s binge: popcorn. Aha - see how much better my binge of choice got in JUST ONE DAY?!
Today’s binge: NOTHING! I get to have one more snack later tonight if I feel like it. I must admit though, I was on the verge of a binge. I had just finished dinner and apparently the simple act of EATING seems to trigger a need to binge for me. I was rifling through the kitchen, trying to find the lowest calorie sweet I could find that would satisfy the urge. I had one of the kiddo’s packages of Mother’s frosted cookies in one hand, debating between that and a Skippy peanut butter fudge snack bar. Cookies: 210 calories, Snack Bar: 190.
Instead, I picked up the phone and used my mouth for talking instead of stuffing. Also a big drink of water helped, too. I got her voicemail and my message was something along the lines of: “Ok, I’m about to binge here, even though I just ate dinner and I am not hungry, I am only wanting to EAT EAT EAT so I’m just calling you now so I can hopefully avoid that. Talk to you later!”
I’m thinking from now on I will be staying on track - that it just took a couple days to settle in. In that case, I’d be happy to see a couple pounds gone by Sunday morning’s weight check.
Only now, after eating dinner and feeling full, do I realize I went in to the grocery store tonight with an empty stomach and allowed kiddo to choose all kinds of cookies and CRAP to pack in his lunches. Granted, there are crackers included in there but I really could have done way better. Lucky for me, he is the picture of a healthy, strong and well-proportioned child, who loves fruits and vegetables as well as sweets. Very Lucky for me. Honestly if he were an overweight child I would be shit out of luck when it came to trying to help him; I can’t even help myself. Yet.
