On holidays and eating.

The end of the year seems to be a difficult time for people who struggle with their weight or who are on constant diets. They feel like they shouldn't have a good time so they just add stress and do you know what your body does when it is stressed? Mine likes to help me by turning what I eat into fat...

I did pretty well yesterday in just trying a little bit of everything (and the night before at Tina's party) but I did have to go back for more beef brisket. We made big plates to take home and that saved money and was delicious too.

Today I've convinced Jim to go to the grocery store with me (after I take him out for a quick Mexican lunch) because he's been complaining that there is never anything that he wants to eat in the house. He did eat my Kashi Moroccan curry that I had bought so that's when I knew he really must have been hungry.

He's noticed that because our schedules are different, he won't eat anything until he gets to work and then will put in a hard night and then binge eat when he gets home. It hasn't been so bad this last week because I didn't even go to the grocery store because I knew we would be doing a lot of holiday things.

Mom gave me some great books at Thanksgiving though and I read through the Glucose Revoluation one in the last couple of days which I thought was much more insightful than the G.I. Diet Express one I had picked up. Although a color-coding system is helpful I think the thought of truly limiting yourself against foods tends to set up a very negative method in your head.

I equate that to something Jim's mom said to me about her last two weeks on the Atkin's diet. She said she was very faithful to the diet for two weeks and lost 6 pounds. Then with three days or normal eating all those pounds came back. She said she felt so much better when she just let herself have things like chocolate.

Living is always a struggle and living well is even more difficult but it is worth it! I'm going to keep coming back to something I thought of earlier this year and try and hold everything against it: Eat better, eat less, move more, and relax!