Tuesday, March 24, 2015

valmaebel

valmaebel

Marla - I totally get what you're saying about being mean to yourself! Hopefully everything will get done and you'll hVe a chance to breathe!

Yesterday was not a good day food-wise. I ate at chipotle for lunch and actually made some good choices there. But the fact is the food put me in junk food mode I think. When I got home I just snacked on everything! The kids refused to eat what I made...again. I've told them they no longer get afternoon snacks for the next week or two until they start actually eating a little bit of what I make. Hopefully, by being more strict about this, I won't be putting so much food down the disposal because they're refusing to eat it.

Today I was supposed to do a quick run. But I had problems falling asleep last night and felt exhausted when my alarm woke me up. My plan is to do my run tonight. I also plan to make my husband actually help the kids with homework and such while I lift weights so I can actually get my chores and workouts in without running myself ragged.

Have a great day everyone!

FromHereOnOut

Hey all. Looks like two daily threads got crossed yesterday, oops. Basically we're still sick (DH, lil girl, and me) and don't seem to be shaking this thing. School holiday today and tomorrow. Between cold and t.o.m., I've been a bump on a log here. :-( and paying for it calorie-wise and increased eating from being home too much. Nobody's felt like grocery shopping and after I threw together some spinach lasagna the other night out of what was here, our cupboards are now empty. :-( ordered out last night. Family is sending food over tonight to help out. Will be glad when this bug passes and can get back to normal! We did manage to close some tickets for Summer travel, still some things to figure out.

Good luck with the kids val. My lil girl wanted oatmeal this a.m., I triple checked with her before I made it. After one bite, she said she didn't want it and wanted eggs. I said no way and I tried to get her to eat it. Finally told her it'd sit there for lunch and dinner too or until she ate it and I went to lay down (since I hadn't slept all night--thank you t.o.m.). Eventually she ate it. There seems to be some sort of magic to leaving her alone with food, that makes her eventually decide to eat it. Idk how or why, just glad it sometimes works, lol.



Hope y'all are ok!

PinkNinjaLaura

I hadn't even noticed there were 2 threads yesterday. Just went back & checked out the other one.

Sherry I'm sorry you're all still sick! Hope you recover soon.

Val I don't know if this would work for you, but my sister started serving dinner to her kids when they got home from school, so they ate early when they were still hungry. She found when they had a snack after school they weren't hungry for dinner, so she reversed the two - they'd have dinner at 4:00 (or whenever) so she knew they were getting a nutritious meal in, then would have their snack later in the evening when they were hungry.

Had Pilates tonight. I love my Pilates class. Would have been a perfect night to run outside, but we only have Pilates every other week and I already had to miss the last one, so I wasn't willing to miss it again. Most of us in the class are runners so our instructor throws in good hip opening moves and tonight we were doing some ankle mobility stuff. One benefit of a private class is she customizes. I have my bags packed to get up early & run at the gym before work (supposed to start snowing overnight & go into Thursday morning so it's going to be a treadmill day). I have to bring the cats to the vet tomorrow late afternoon and that's traumatic for all 3 of us, so after that I'm going to want to just stay home, not head back out again.

agingwithfitness

Laura I have a friend who lives in Seattle going through a divorce and getting use to living alone again. I keep telling her to give herself time and take it slow and to be extra nice to herself. So that's what I guess I would tell myself.

I told my hubby to do errands alone so I could have day by myself at home to think things out and try to feel my feelings instead of eating them. I did have a lot of thoughts but I still ate wrong today.

I decided tonight that I am going to try for my health to stay off sugar and wine for awhile, not a diet but just for my stomach until I can gain control.

I probably will stumble but I am going to try. Trying to eat intuitive during this time emotionally was too hard because I don't have the control to stop. They say you can eat anything when you are hungry and stop when full.

That works great if your life is going well but right now food and wine are like drugs to me and I can't stop. Lately I have been eating sugary things until I feel sick. If I was a counselor I would say I am making myself feel pain so I don't have to think about all the move stuff.

Meanwhile back in reality, I have to beautify my house even more because pics are being taken next week. It feels like so much to do.

And Laura good advice about kids eating after school, that's when they are hungry.