That aside. Yesterday was pretty good. I had to change up my food a bit from what I planned. I forgot that when you start exercising (or in my case restart exercising) that your appetite increases until your body adjusts. And, wow, did I jump start my exercise. I changed up my walking a bit. I wanted to get more steps so I decided that when I get up, after I get my coffee, I would walk our entire street and then every 45 minutes after that I would do the lap around the property. Our street is a cul-de-sac on both ends. I'm not sure how clear that is, but basically, it's a decent size oval. It is about 1500 steps to round the whole street. That's a decent start to the day. And, by the end of the day, I had just over 8,000 steps. That's so cool to me. I was sore and tired by the end of the day, which will definitely help my sleep. I have just learned that rubbing Frankincense essential oil on sore muscles helps ease the soreness. It worked great. And that walk helps me wake up as well. I've cut my coffee back to 2 cups in the morning and I still have to take sleep meds because of my insomnia (maybe getting back in shape will allow me to stop doing that) so I'm always groggy when I get up. The walk helped that immensely.
As far s my 24 hour plan for my food, as I said I changed it up a bit. Instead of having my yogurt for dinner, I had a second helping of enchilada casserole. I was just starving by the time dinner came around. I was still hungry after that and I succumbed to a small bag of M&M's. While, on the one hand, I'm disappointed with myself, I'm cutting myself a little slack because I was legitimately hungry. I should have had cherries or melon as planned but I didn't. That's on me.
There was also a change in my ability to obtain junk food. The little neighborhood convenience store burned down yesterday afternoon. It's about two blocks from my house so it made it far to easy to succumb to evening snacking. It's terrible (thankfully, no one was hurt) and I feel so badly for the family that owned the store. It will make it almost impossible to give in to snacks in the evening because the next closest store for junk food was about 10 minutes from the house by car and we're less likely to go that far in the evening. I do hope that they're going to be okay and that they have insurance. I'm sad for all of those that lost their income yesterday.
Okay. My food plan for today is:
Breakfast: Shakeology
Lunch: Yogurt with berries, GF granola and chia seeds
Dinner: GF pasta with meat sauce and broccoli
Snack (if needed) cherries or melon
Day 5 of the Emotional Eating 30 Day Journal Challenge
How can I invest in myself, my health and my joy this year?
I like that these questions make me really think about what I want.
I believe I can accomplish all three by learning to make smarter choices with not only food, but my job and how I interact with my family. My family has been through a really tough 2 years and that contributed to my weight gain. I don't talk about this very much because it's a tough topic for me. A little over 2 years ago, we discovered my son had a VERY serious drug addiction problem that stemmed from an injury and snowballed into the worst thing a parent can ever go through. We were in California at the time and we sold everything we had as fast as possible to move back to Louisiana where he was living. I was terrified I was going to lose my only child (even though he's an adult - that's still my kid). We fought for the 2 years after getting back here to save him and I am very thankful that we were finally able to get him sober and working toward rebuilding his life. I ate my way through it. I remember clearly sitting on the couch and eating out of a half gallon container of ice cream. I kept gaining and gaining and I was upset about my weight but just wouldn't do what it would take to correct that behavior. Even though we're on out way out of that horror, I still have knee jerk reactions to certain things my son does because for those 2 years it only meant a bad thing. I need to "rewire" how I think about it because that will only help to make my family healthy and whole again.
Anyway, enough of that. I hope you all have a wonderful day and always remember...Once you choose hope, anything's possible. 💓
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