Stress vs Peace

I used to belong to several singing groups. One of my favorite songs has this line in it... "There is peace in the midst of a storm tossed life"
This week has been crazy. Stress and fading faith in mankind has assaulted me. Not only that but trying to not binge eat during this time.
I am glad to say that I did make a lot of healthy choices even if I did over eat a few times. My worst was about 20 deep fried tater tots with fry sauce.
BUT what is cool about all this is that I made a conscious effort not to binge eat and was aware of my normal reaction and how it is different this time.
In order to handle the stress and deal with the people my sense of humor, my dependence on Him (the Lord) did give me some peace. I have a long ways to go but it was great to know that I am getting stronger every day.
Here is wishing you each peace in the midst of this storm tossed life.

Weigh-in tomorrow

I am worried about weighing in tomorrow. I am hoping the scales have started to move. I know I am down clothes sizes but I am weird as I want to see the scale moving on down!

Aching Feet

My feet are aching along with my ankles. I think it is time I bought some really good exercise shoes. Traci suggested "Runners Corner" so tomorrow I will go shell out money for good shoes. Never thought I would exercise enough to have to pay more than $10 bucks for a pair of shoes. Kinda exciting.

Eating more for less

Since I am a vegetarian I have to use a lot of tofu and egg whites for protein. Unfortunately I love carbs and fruits better. SO I need to get a bit more creative with my recipes so I can get full instead of using all my servings/calories that my body needs on carbs.

Seriously! Answers Required.

Serious discussion here folks..... I hate people who can loose weight! (Not really - I am excited for all who are loosing - I am just frustrated)

I talked to a lady today who is my age. She said she got a trainer and by working out and eating healthy she has lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks. WHAT IS UP FOLKS??? I am not doing that. I may joke about my food and how "bad" I am being but I am doing pretty good. I have cut out a lot of foods that I used to eat and I eat a lot less so..... why is my scale just creeping down ounce by ounce? Do you know how many ounces are in a lb? Then many of my friends are on the HGH Diet and are loosing tons of weight. It is so tempting not to join them.................... Ok I vented

I Have Returned!

St. George is HOT! Yuck!

Nice thing about heat is that you are not very hungry.

I left for St. George on Thursday. I ate healthy Thursday and Friday and Saturday until about noon. It was downhill from there. Several reasons - I overate around 3 pm and for some reason felt like I had blown it so continued bad eating the rest of the day. Today is not so bad. I drank a lot of cold coffee drinks on the way home because I was trying to stay awake. So I will eat healthier the rest of the day.

I exercised Friday and will exercise tonight. That way I only missed one of my regular exercise days (Thursday).

Back to reality tomorrow - it was good to spend several days with my mom and her friends in St George.

Food Diary

So.... todays food (so far)

BREAKFAST

Oatmeal

Boiled Egg (just the white part)

1/4 cup frozen grapes

LUNCH

1/2 cup bananna squash

1 cup Cottage cheese

1 1/2 cup raw brocclli, carrots, califlower, sunflower seeds and black beans

SNACK

2 Morningstar Spicy Bean Patties

NOW - lets see what tonight brings...

Be strong Michelle - you can do it - you can do - you can do it!!!