I totally love to eat when I am stressed, upset, and/or unhappy. Today has been a stressful and unhappy day - blah. Work is stressing me big time but I am sticking to my plan, staying in my WW point range and I am drinking a ton of water to try and fight my cravings. I am also trying to remember that food will not help me feel better mentally. Some times, after a super stressful day, I really just want to go home and enjoy my favorite dinner of chips and salsa with grated cheddar cheese mixed in. (It is so freaken good but it is such fat kid meal - it should not even be called a meal.) But a jar of salsa, a block of cheese and a bag of chips later and I have not only eaten until I am sick but I have eaten like 3 days worth of calories. In one sitting! Mentally I might not even feel better and even more times I feel like shit because well I just ate a jar of salsa, a block of cheese and a fucking bag of chips. Even if I snack on something healthy that fills me up, I still want the chips/cheese/salsa heart attack snack.
So why is comfort food so damn comforting? And why does our body, ok well our mind, crave this junk?? And what can be done to over come it? UGH.
I will ponder this tonight during my Body by Bethanny that I did not get around to doing last night because I decided to be lazy instead. Epiphany(!!!): I bet if I worked out last night I would not be feeling this way today!! I will stop worrying about this now and work out my stress from the day during my work out tonight. I hope you all have the strength to focus on your future ridiculously hot bodies and walk past the cheese/ice cream/chip/cookie aisle tonight at the store.
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