Thursday, March 10, 2016
FromHereOnOut
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Well, I wasn't able to embed, but anyway...really liked what this guy had to say in the video.
I need to reAd the last few days. Sorry I went missing, but lil girl and I caught a particularly nasty cold. Sh s back to school finally today, but I'm just now in the middle of the worst of it. Son woke with sore throat, so I guess he could be next. Really wish I had DH or some family who could just come load the dishwasher and throw together some chicken soup. Oh well, I'll survive. Of course I got the usual double whammy of a cold plus t.o.m. (Happens every time. Ugh)0 -
The blerch got me yesterday but I will triumph today! DO YOU HEAR ME BLERCH!?0
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I'm with you all on loving food! I do emotionally eat...but a lot of it is just I LOVE good food. I did learn that being purposeful in enjoying food was a good deterrent for over eating for me. I don't eat junk food that tastes like cardboard if I'm eating for taste. I still enjoy the delicious desserts, but if I eat slowly and focus on enjoying every bite then I get full faster and eat less. I need to get back to that.
Had a fantastic time sailing! We're hoping to take my parents and the kids on the boat in a couple of weeks. It was relaxing and wonderful. I called my dad to check with him about my throat. He's almost positive that we had strep throat...but that it also seems to have resolved itself and that if I went in, they probably wouldn't find anything at this point. It has to be at its peak for the swab to work since they never seem to do the swab right. So rather than spend $50 to have some MA make me feel like an idiot, he'll just bring me some antibiotics on Saturday if I still am running a low grade fever and sore throat. Works for me. Not excercise this week though because of it and I'm getting antsy! Agh!
Today I'm shopping at Costco and heading to church to prep some stuff. Tonight I'm trying a new recipe that's spicy Asian chicken with Brussels sprouts. We'll see how it turns out!
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Val in my perfect world I get back to eating purposefully, just like you described. Skip that stuff that isn't worth it. Savor the stuff that is.
I'm about a week into my cold and I'm trying to accept that it's just not ever going away. It started in my chest and is now migrating into my head too. That's my usual MO. Still coughing, but not as much, and I don't have as much chest pressure but it's still there too.
My quads are still sore from Monday's workout but they're getting better anyway. I've got a 3 mile run tonight and if I'm still sore I am going to cut it short, and Jason can always modify the workout tonight if necessary so he's not beating up my legs more than they already are.0 -
I attest to exercise changing your brain. Yesterday i was feeling ansy like wanting to scream over nothing? I forced myself to get out on trail and even then took over half a hour to start feeling normal, i went for extra long walk but was ok when i got home.
Part of what started my bored behavior was college thing got cancelled because of weather. It was windy about 20-30 mph all day and why it took me until afternoon to talk myself outside.
Going to do yoga at home and a hike later on the new trail in woods we found. No rain and almost no wind today.
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I read back and it's like you're all reading my mind!!!
First, welcome back April!
val and Laura, I hope you get on the mends. The sickness we got here was of the "razors in your throat, while drowning in your own mucus" variety. It hit hard and fast. I'm still struggling. Embarrassed myself so bad today when I took my son to anew martial arts gym (told him I was too sick, but he begged)... And got literally choked up talking to the instructor about maybe signing him up...like red faced and teary-eyed and couldn't speak or cough or anything. It was awful I should've never left the house. Must remember to pick up cough drops.
I relate to both the emotional eating and the "food is delicious". The thing with me is that ALL food is delicious. I can overeat literally anything. If...IF...I use it to my advantage, I just wash up some fresh mushrooms and abuse them instead of cookies. But often I'm too busy, the mushrooms sit in their container and I grab convenience foods (which means my kids after school cookies, or every last morsel of leftovers from dinner...even if it wasn't that great). And a couple nights ago, when I was completely stuffed from dinner, my little monster of a cat drove me to the brink of sanity (don't ask), and I tore into my kids after-school chips. Dammit! But one technique that has worked with me in the past, and may help you Marla, is allowing myself to have whatever I want, as much as I want...LATER. There's some kind of magic in telling yourself that you "can always have it later". First, you get rid of that shortage-mentality that drives us fast-eaters (that's me! eat it all and eat it fast b fore one of my kids wants it, lol) and second, you let the moment of emotion/craving/whatever-catalyst pass. You soothe yourself with the thought of having it later...so much that, you don't even have to have it! Try it. It works for awhile anyway.
Well, tomorrow is (I think) a last costume day for the kids for the season. If I can just make it through tomorrow, maybe I can feel better over the weekend. I haven't been pushing them too hard on the chores front either, but bless'em for getting themselves ready, fed, and making their own lunches this morning while I soothed myself in a hot shower. Son got dinner started tonight too. Lil girl got her Dr bag out to fix me up.
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