NUTS!

[sophie'sChoice 269]

I have let the holiday stress get to me and I'm really disappointed in myself. Work is stressful and all the extra activities in the evenings has me so busy I'm not organized anymore and very fatigued. I always have nuts as my snack in the evening and now I have realized that I'm consuming way too many. I'm grazing!! YIKES! I'm eating on the run almost every day because of necessity. And we won't even go into all the extra food at all the events (I've been doing well in that regard).

The buck stops here. I have no nuts in the house as of today. If I can't control them I can't have them. Getting rid of the ones at work as well. I brought hummus today for my snack. I'm hoping that when the holidays are over and things go back to a "normal busy" I won't struggle as much with wanting to graze. I want to go back to a few months ago when I had to remind myself to eat. Mindful eating is what I'm going to practice.

Just wanted to get this out there. I know what to do, I just have to be mindful and DO IT! (I wish it were as easy as it sounds).

Oh....and I bought myself an elliptical...it gets delivered next friday. Merry Christmas to me!!! I'm very psyched about this! You would all have gotten a chuckle if you could have seen me at Sears. They had about a dozen ellipticals on the floor. This 300 pounder was on every one! Then I narrowed it down to 3 and got back on each of them a couple of times. By the time I had made my decision I was WORN OUT! LOL But I'm excited. I consider it an investment in my health and my future. Take home message...NO MORE NUTS! NO MORE GRAZING!

[bobbyswife 862]

You're still in that "golden year". Don't lose the faith! Stay the course! You've got this. Get back to basics, we are all rooting for you!

[tiredmama 138]

Good for you for recognizing the problem- most of us have foods we just can't keep around because they are too tempting. For me, it's junky candy like twizzlers- once I allow myself to eat one, I can't stop thinking about them. Much easier for me to ban them from my house!