Small Victory

I'm psyched and wanted to share!

I worked out instead of eating!

I finally reviewed Weight Watchers new week 3 materials. It's an eating personality profile. My top problem? Emotional eating. Not really a surprise. I know I eat when I'm upset, sad, stressed, or bored. But, for the first time, I really paid attention to the ideas for avoiding emotional eating. The key: substitute? If you're still hungry in 15 minutes, then you can eat.

Yesterday morning, trudging through too much boring reading, I had the urge to grab a 3 mustketeers out of my stash. I recognized it as boredom, so I stopped. I looked up some desk work out moves and did 15 minutes of strength training at my desk. And when I was done, I wasn't hungry. (Thirsty, but not hungry.) I repeated the process this morning.

So, now I have a first step defense against boredom hunger at work. Yeah!