Nightly Gathering

Open Thread Post 106 - Food

I have always had a sweet tooth and I love chocolate the most. The older I get, the more I know it is important to eat healthily. And I really like healthy food, too. I love a good chef salad, I love asparagus in the hot air fryer, I like almost everything actually.

For those who don't know me, I'm a pretty normal weight, although I never weigh myself. I go by how my clothes fit, and if I feel a snugness, I'll work harder by not giving in to temptation as much and hiking instead of walking. I'm also pretty good at intermittent fasting, where 3 - 4 days a week, I have no problem not eating between 6 at night and 11 the next morning.

So sometimes, even though I feel like I'm overeating, it's probably an acceptable number of calories for that day. It's just crammed into 6 or 7 hours.

But although it may have always been true that I've eaten emotionally and I just didn't name it as such, now I KNOW that I'm eating to make myself feel better. I am at a lower level of feeling good/happy, so even that very temporary hit is doing something to make me feel normal for those moments.

I think this is what I ate today, starting at 1030, after not eating since 530 yesterday.

I had a sausage patty and a handful of dry roasted almonds. Took the 45 minute walk.

Had a wedge of Monterey Jack cheese.

Had a bowl of grape nuts flakes cereal

Had 2 “cuties”

Had a 1/2 handful of almonds

Had some baby carrots with ranch dressing

Had some asparagus

Had a few slices of pork loin

Had 2 egg rolls

Had 2 frozen bananas with chocolate covering.

Writing it out it doesn't seem so bad today until I got to the bananas & chocolate!

I think we've eaten any remaining junk food from what I bought on Friday. Hopefully I'll be able to stick to healthy foods for the rest of the week.

Open Thread is to write about anything you'd like, or feel free to write about if you are an emotional eater and how you handle it.