Stress Eating

These last 2 weeks have been stressful. I mean, STRESSFUL. I was on a site visit for work over 3 days on the west side of the state, which involves leaving extra early in the AM and arriving home late in the PM. I ate semi-reasonably at the site visit. I would have much rather have gone to Wendy's or something cheaper, but I guess if I'm getting reimbursed... but I had no prep time for the menus. I tried to play it safe...! And, of course, I had no time to go to the gym. And, I missed my Weight Watchers meeting that week. Bad idea.

Poor lil car! 2 days after the accident, with tear down started

On day 2 of the site visit, I also had a concert to attend in Detroit. I left the site visit early, made it to an appointment back home, then headed to the show. My friend who was supposed to go with me got *really* sick and couldn't go, so I convinced my pregnant sister that baby needs to learn to rock out- and she came with me. After the show, driving back home, I hit a deer. I take that back. I *obliterated* the deer. My car was quite damaged, but thankfully, I'm alright. The car is now in the shop and won't be done until May 12th at the earliest. My insurance company made me jump through so many hoops when filing the claim, I feel like a trained seal. I was tired. And sore. And now car-less again, for the 2nd time this year.

Have you ever been without a car for a couple of days? It throws your schedule off horribly- instead of going to the gym before going out for the evening, I stayed home. The weather was always "bad", and I wasn't going to bike to the gym in a monsoon. Plus, I was exhausted and had to do my daily work on top of the site visit.

Then it was Easter. I didn't get to visit with the family (no car, remember?) so I sat at home with 2 dogs, felt a little sad since I as alone on a holiday, watched tv, and ate. Instead of the healthy meals I could have cooked, I had macaroni and cheese and some turkey kielbasa. And jelly beans- lots of jelly beans. I don't think my body saw a vegetable at all that day.

I came up with every excuse possible to skip the workouts, stay home, relax - and eat- over the last few weeks. I was crabby, stressed, tired, sore, etc. So I ate. And didn't stop. It was so bad, I was eating chocolate chips from my baking cupboard. I found mini marshmallows- and ate them by the handful. Almonds? Great! Lets mix them in with the marshmallows and chocolate chips. Let's throw some of the mixture on top of the 2 Weight Watchers frozen sundaes I combined as one large dessert. Bet some jelly beans would taste great on there too...

You see how it went.

Last week, I made it to my Wednesday meeting - and discovered I gained 2 lbs. OK, that's manageable. I was only .6 away from my next 5% goal (WOO!), but now I'm 2.6 lbs. You think that would have whooped me into shape and put me back on program. Nope.

I was then dealing with more work stuff, my sister's baby shower, my dog acting like it was the end of the world because we couldn't go to the park (she jumped in friend's cars when they came to visit, thinking she would get to go to the park), being at everyone's driving schedules... so I ate some more. I did go to the gym twice, though, so that's a positive step...?

Trish had this amazing idea to make homemade peanut butter eggs (recipe at Confessions of a Cookbook Queen) and Cadbury eggs. Great idea in theory, but now I have 2 huge containers of chocolately awesomeness. I mean, the recipes were *dead on.* When I bit into a half of a peanut butter egg last night while watching the Wings game, after having Wendy's for dinner (chicken nuggets and fries), and after having 2 pieces of cake at the baby shower (each kind was different! I had to try both!) I almost vomited. My heart was racing, I think I was sweating, and I felt horrible. That was the last straw.

While the chocolate eggs are still in my fridge, they will be brought with me to trivia tonight and to the boy's house tomorrow night. Then to work. The Robin's Eggs I got from the baby shower are in the work break room. I have fruit and healthy food all over the place again in my house. And, to make it all better- I get my (free) rental car today. I've mapped out my week in terms of healthy meals and workouts, so there won't be any large surprises.

I've got this 2.6 lbs -- well, more like 3.5 lbs, I'm sure-- but I can do this! As long as you pick yourself back up and put yourself back on the wagon... the past is the past. Time to look forward. Long story short, GAME ON.