For one reason or another, I ate way too much yesterday. I think perhaps I was ‘stress-eating’ again. I’ve decided that what stress eating does is fill the stomach to the state in which you feel ‘safe and secure’, and then, to keep that feeling, you keep eating, picking and grazing through the day, never really satisfied. Unfortunately, I didn’t realise what I was doing until late in the evening after I’d pretty much already had way too much.
To explain, for lunch I ate a huge salad followed by an apple, and then several Cruskits with a tin of ‘curried tuna. For dinner, I went *well* overboard mixing *two* frozen meals together, and after I’d eaten that, I followed up with an apple, a small cake and then some yoghurt and strawberries. My weight rose from 150.9 to 152.3. Ok, apart from the small cake, the food wasn’t all unhealthy. Eating an additional frozen meal was idiotic, but at least I managed not to divert *too* far from the ‘golden path’.
Obviously, some of it will be digested and dumped, and of course, some was water (not enough!!). Still, it was way too much. Still, now I know (or think) I understand what happened, I’ll try to be careful if I get stressed again and make a real effort to haul myself back into line. After all, if the hope for the operation falls through, I’ll still need to keep to the regime in order to keep losing weight… even if it *is* “the long way round”.
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