Whew. What a week. Here’s what I learned about myself this week: I like to eat sugar when I’m stressed.
Monday, Meghan was on a two-hour delay for school. The meant my blog-working time was cut from the normal 2 1/2 hours while Luke is at school to about an hour. Then during that hour, WordPress was barely working, I had an issue with one of my plug-ins (some do-ditty that lets you print my recipes), and basically got a day behind on everything.
So Monday’s post didn’t get published until Tuesday. Not the end of the world. But Tuesday was a snow day for both kids and everything snowballed (pun intended) and I just felt frazzled and behind on life. Writing it all down makes it seem petty; I know there are bigger problems in the world than having a pile of dirty laundry on the floor, but I felt stressed and I hate that feeling.
I wanted a piece of chocolate cake; I’m not going to lie. I don’t think I even knew that about myself. This challenge is helping me see that I do turn to sweets when I’m feeling anxious/stressed/frazzled/chaotic.
This time, though, I didn’t. I did eat one too many dates stuffed with almond butter. But still. I didn’t eat the chocolate cake I wanted to run out to the store and buy immediately.
I’m not sure if I would have resisted the urge to eat sugar this week without this challenge. I’m so glad we are doing this together. I can see that my brain needs some reprogramming and I think that’s exactly what is happening.
How was your week? Fill us in on how it went in the comment section!
Pretty good week. I did realize going out to eat or eating at a friends makes knowing if you are eating sugar a lot harder. I am pretty sure I had sugar in a salad dressing and spaghetti sauce but really what are you going to do about that. So I really didn’t sweat that part of it. I’m actually feeling really good and glad to see that I can even do oatmeal and pancakes with no honey or syrup just good fruit. The next two weeks will be harder as I try to cut out all the honey and syrup too. I do have two big events this up coming week. My work party and my husbands work party that will be hard. Not eating the obvious sweets will be a little easier maybe my husbands party is always fancy and so yummy. but whether the other stuff has sugar we won’t know.
“I’m actually feeling really good and glad to see that I can even do oatmeal and pancakes with no honey or syrup just good fruit.” That’s what this is all about! Glad to hear it. 🙂