You're missing the point!!!!!!!

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You're missing the point!!!!!!! Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:21 AM PDT Well...maybe not you personally -- but there are a lot of you out there missing my point!  We can't keep doing what we're doing and expect different results! Making healthful choices is a good thing.  I jus****ched a video (from a site I love but an not going to link because it made me so mad!)  with a dietitian talking about stress eating, how it can derail a healthy diet, and how to surround yourself with healthy options -- so you can stress eat healthy foods!!!??? Does anyone really think stress eating healthy foods is the answer to this issue??? How about putting all that energy into managing your stress more effectively? Has anyone ever (EVER!) solved a stressful problem by eating?  Unless your stressful problem was malnutrition the answer is NO.  Food is not the answer to stress.  And I am going to throw out there that I bet stress eating increases your stress level after you recover from the food coma (which was the whole point of stress eating anyway -- to numb yourself to the discomfort you were feeling in the first place). Solve your stress problems.  Go for a walk.  A walk will literally and measurabley decrease the muscular tension you feel.  You blood pressure will be lower when you get back -- literally, measurably lower!!  Use the walk time to notice what's going on around you -- the whole world is spinning by, how does your stressful situation stack up against that?  Gain some perspective.  Move.  Let your stress be a catalyst to positive health behavior change!  Get out of the kitchen.  Put on your shoes.  No excuses....I know you don't want to.  Do it anyway.

This is what I need to do but my stress eating is late at night, and after I've already walked/exercise and don't want to go outside in the dark and cold by myself. Just have to figure out why I stress eat at night and stop.

I'm an eater at night too, never was too bad until I started working the 3-11pm shift, by the time I got home I was hungry! I try to just drink something like my prune juice and apple sauce mixed together. That holds me til morning when I get up.

Hey Debbie!!

Love, love, love to walk.....so glad for the wonderful March weather!! Down 16 pounds now.....weeeeeeeeeee!!

Back to basics works ladies!

Hugs and love....connie d

Wow Connie, 16 pounds is great!! You go girl, I'm so proud of you. Hugs Debbie