Skinny Saturday Report

Not. a. good. week.

I don’t know what happened! I was doing okay! I even survived a weekend at my parents without going completely bonkers on the junk food. But somewhere around Monday, things just started to get crazy overwhelming, and I never recovered. Once my schedule started to feel out of control, my eating just went the same direction. It was total and complete emotional eating. I was tired and crazy alllllll week. Most days, I wasn’t even sure what day of the week I was on. I was running on fumes, totally in “just survive” mode, and instead of giving my body what it actually needed (health-full foods and rest), I gave it what I thought would help it run “for just a little bit longer…”

It’s like my body would say, “I’m so tired. Please let me rest!” And then I’d turn around and say, “just eat another cookie (or 10)– that should get you through a few more hours… here, have some ice cream too.”

I’m not even sure what my official weight is for this week! I forgot to weigh in yesterday (you can see how focused on my weight loss goals I was this week, hmph!). But I weighed in twice during the week (in the afternoon, after meals, so this won’t be totally accurate, but… whatevs. It’s an approximation anyway, right?), and I was back at 183.6. So I’m putting myself at 183 for my weight for this week, and call it good.

Anyway. Something’s not working for me. I’m open to suggestions. What kinds of things to you do to overcome emotional junk-food eating? Sometimes, I even find that I have a hard time after workouts with this. All the endorphins have put me in a great mood, and it’s like I want to celebrate feeling so good with food! Counter-productive much? So it’s not just the negative emotions (boredom, frustration, chaos) that make me want to dive into the cookie jar. It’s the good ones too! Help!!

Oh– and no recipe today, sorry! It’s been that sort of a week…

But I will tell you about a good snack that I really enjoyed this week: I have a hard time eating fruit. It’s not that I don’t like fruit, it’s just that I’m a lot more picky about my fruit than I am vegetables (which is why most of my fruit ends up in a smoothie). Fruit has to be just right. Meaning: in season, sweet, crisp, not mushy at all. So this week, in an effort to help me eat some of our apples, I drizzled 1 tbsp. of semi-sweet chocolate over top of apple slices. It was plenty of sweet, disguised the imperfections of the apple, and was only 2 points! Loved it

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