Continued struggles/Confessions

I skipped my last two WeightWatchers meetings/weigh ins. The first was partially because I wasn't feeling well and also in part because I knew we were going to have a substitute leader. The second was to avoid seeing what I was pretty sure would have been a gain Tuesday.


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I've been eating like crap again lately. It is out of control. I'm burnt out from work, and not sleeping well/enough (letting myself get sucked into watching TV on HULU/Netflix because "I deserve it" for being stressed and tired). Next week things should start to get more settled at work, but I don't know how to recharge from being burnt out and tired.

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I was feeling really good when I was eating all that fruit, and I just stopped keeping up with it.


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I'm starting to miss the good feelings I would get from exercise. I remember feeling more comfortable in my body, feeling generally healthier..... I need to get the living room cleared out more so that I have space to do exercise DVD. I did get my Gazelle set up in what I think will be a good spot, but I'll just have to wait and see how it works out. 

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I have no idea how to plan out meals during the week in a way that I can actually stick to. Lunches and snacks are hard because I get interupted at work and won't get a chance to eat my morning snack and then lunch time hits and whatever I've packed for lunch isn't appetizing anymore. Sometimes I think that's because by then I'm so over-hungry that my mind plays tricks on me to crave comfort-type foods, but it is hard because at that point the thought of some foods makes me nauseous and if I'm feeling too nauseous I really won't be able to eat certain things. Grrr.....

Breakfast has been a cop-out lately. I've been sticking with cereal and milk most mornings (dinner/takeout leftovers sometimes end up as breakfast on the weekends, but usually only one day).  Been alternating between Post Shredded Wheat in Honey Nut and Kellogg's Frosted Mini Wheats Chocolate Little Bites. The fiber and whole grain help fill me up in the morning, but I'm definitely hungry again in the moring. Of course, technically that's about 3 hours later which is not a bad time to be hungry again, but like I said I struggle with the whole actually eating my snack(s).

Dinners are hard because depending on how I ate at work, sometimes I get home and am absolutely starving. I know that if I prep food over the weekend for some dinners during the week that would help with this, but then I'm still back to the issue of deciding what to have and sticking with that choice when the time comes.

[Because of my food/stomach problems I do honestly sometimes have to change what I'm eating based on what is going to sit well on my stomach based on how it is doing. However, I know that if I can get better at planning my meals and making them more balanced overall my stomach will be happier more of the time which will then have a nice cyclical/domino effect.]

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I think that's all for now...