Emotional Eating

If you've ever gone to Weight Watchers to lose weight you'll know that there are many a lecture on emotional eating.  We're angry.  We eat.  We're stressed.  We eat.  We're sad.  We eat.

I noticed that not only do I eat bad things when I am emotional, but I neglect good things.

I'm not dieting but have changed my diet for the better.  I have been concentrating on vegetables and fruit.  Organic as much as possible.  I grow my own wheatgrass.  I make a conscious effort to put good foods in my body to help heal myself.

So for the last few weeks I have been stressed.  There are things going on around me that make me sad and angry.  Thankfully, no one in my immediate family is having it too hard so I am thankful for that, however it's close enough to me to make me worry, stress, and mad!!  Then (as I've ranted to you before) there is a lack of customer service out there, nothing is ever easy.  Seems you have to jump through many a hoop to get the slightest thing accomplished.  What happened to the good old days?  I found myself running all over town yesterday and of course, I got behind every single slow person in the city......

It was sunny.  I felt good.  Maybe I should harvest the flat of wheatgrass I grew.  Who knew if you leave it alone too long you've lost the opportunity to get good juice out of it.  I hadn't juiced for a good week.  I pulled out the cukes - slimy.  The celery.  Brown.  That's some dollars down the drain.

No.  I went for easy.  I was stressed.  How can we battle our own demons?  How can we run to the good food when we are mad?  Why does a piece of chocolate look so much better than an orange??

One thing I know is processed food is just easier.  It's gloomy outside, you are sad and angry.  The motivation to get out all the veggies and fill your body with pure nutrition is thrown out the window for a bagel.

So with the sun and warm weather yesterday came a trip to Trader Joe's and a fridge full of fresh veggies.  A new day- a new resolve!!!