What does regret taste like? Well, it tastes like over processed chocolate chip cookies.
And I ate THREE of them last night! And I am not beating myself up, that really doesn’t do any good. What I DO want to do is figure out why.
I had already posted and said I didn’t eat them and I was in bed and getting close to sleep and I just had to have them! So I got out of bed, got 4 cookies out of the package, and ate 3 of them. The other I left on my nightstand, a sad, stale reminder of the strength of old habits and the necessity of new ones.
So, new habits to fight this urge for eating unhealthy things -
1. All food is stored downstairs. Normally I keep some snacks upstairs for the kids. No more. Their snacks need to be planned just as much as mine do!
2. No eating after 8 PM. (I realize that there will be special occasions where this will be broken. So this is definitely more of a “guideline” than a rule!)
That should do it! Well, that and remembering that those cookies did not taste nearly as good as I wanted them to.
So today -
Breakfast – the usual
Snack -Protein bar, water
Lunch – grilled chicken wrap, 10 fries
Snack- water
Dinner – tofu veggie stir fry! No matter what the kids say!!
ONCE A WEEK TREAT – Caramel Banana Crunch Ice Cream from ColdStone! I made a decision, got my kids out of the house, and enjoyed a few minutes in the (almost) bearable summer evening. It was wonderful!
OH! And another thing!
I am VERY ANNOYED to discover that my LIGHT yogurt has, as the SECOND ingredient, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!
WHAT!!!???
I will be taking plain low-fat yogurt and adding fruit to it from now on. It just goes to show how very important it is to read the WHOLE label!
