Day 2, Blame it on the ....

I thought it would be good to take a step back and look at when and why I ate.  Was I hungry, bored, upset, angry, tired, eating out of habit, or avoiding some other emotion?  The morning started out with beef jerky in the car.  I was so hungry.  I then ate the tuna sandwich that my husband made for my lunch.  Still felt like I was starving.  And THEN I remembered there was a McDonald's on my way to the freeway.  I just wanted to feel satisfied.  As I had done so many other occasions, I stopped at that cursed establishment of convenience. I ordered two sausage burritos.  I ate one burrito and saved the other for lunch as I NEEDED to replace my lunch sandwich. 


So, the day drones on and it gets to be lunch time and I ate my second burrito, another beef jerky stick and a small brownie.  Looking back on it, I ate because it was lunch time, not because I was actually hungry. 


Here is the kicker, I was out on an emergency assignment case and felt nauseated....my brilliant solution - EAT.  Small chili from Wendy's.  "Oh, well, maybe I really was hungry," I thought.  No STUPID!  You are bored and ate out of emotion.  I then thought that it must be that one day out of my monthly cycle... Blame it on the hormones, that is effective avoidance for ya! 


I came home and wanted more than anything to get rid of the stress of my day with Mexican food and a pitcher of margaritas.  But I resisted; I came home and prepared a makeshift stir-fry with bowtie pasta.  I opted for the 64 calorie beer as the beverage.  On the surface, it sounds like I had a victory, right?!  Until I tell you that I had a chocolate chip cookie in the car on my drive home and the only reason I didn't go out for Mexican was that my husband didn't answer his phone when I called him three times on my drive home.


Oh well, Blame it on the.........