Back From Spring Break!!!

So, today is the first day back from Spring Break and looking back on this past week, I have to say I noticed my eating habits are much better when I'm not in school. Although I didn't go to the gym even once, I ate much healthier and less often than the weeks prior. My only thought as to why this is might be because school stresses me out and causes me to eat a lot of junk food. I hate admitting that my eating habits are directly linked with the amount of stress in my life because that's one thing I have absolutely no control over. I mean, I guess in a hypothetically perfect world, I could "manage" my stress with breathing techniques and scented candles, but that's not real life. Situations always seem to pop up out of nowhere that throw my world upside down. I wonder if there's some way to re-program your eating habits to be correlated with something other than stress... I guess I'll have to Google it! That's all for now.

Another Week of Junkfood!!!

Ok, so even though I would like to lie to look good on my own blog, I just can't do it. I had a terrible week in terms of my diet. I didn't even go to the gym once! I ate pretty much whatever I wanted, including 6 Krispy Kreme doughnuts in about 10 minutes last night. I always do this. I'm always the person that has a million projects going on and never finishes any of them. Why can't I follow through on anything? It's so discouraging and makes me want to quit all together but I know I'll never be happy with the way I am if I do. Plus, it's such a important lifestyle change that I know I'm going to have to do it eventually. I need to get healthy! Well, today I'm making a re-commitment to my diet. I'm eating a cup of fruit right now so I figure I'm of to a good start. Let's see how this week goes.

A Revelation...

So I have to say, this last last week I had a somewhat revelation about my eating habits. I always heard other people say they ate when they felt bad, and I always thought, "that's crazy!" "They don't eat cuz they feel bad, they eat cuz they're hungry!" But no, this last week I saw how closely my eating habits and emotions are intertwined. On Saturday morning my older brother moved to Boston. Although we're both "adults" and I know this is a normal thing to do, I'm still really sad about it. I've never lived more than 20 minutes from him and I can't imagine him not be around for the day-to-day changes in my life. For the couple of days before he left, I noticed myself craving more junk food. I went out and got McDonald's, ate Girlscout cookies, and drank a lot of soda. But, after he left, I completely lost control and stuffed myself with as much fattening food as I could find. It's funny, for the first time I actually noticed how I was eating even when I wasn't hungry. Maybe I was trying to keep myself busy so I didn't have to think about being sad. As soon as I realized what I was doing I stopped, but the damage had already been done. The 4 pounds that I lost from the week before had already been gained back. I'm sad that a whole week's worth of dieting was wasted, but at the same time I'm glad it happened. Now I can start questioning myself and acknowledging why I eat what I eat.