Week Six Thursday

Finally, finally today life started to balance and settle and be happy.  Thank goodness.  The down side was that I didn't eat breakfast and my morning snack.  I ate lunch- the rest of the Hawaiian chicken mixture with two corn tortillas.  Then, because I was feeling energetic and it wasn't raining yet, I did a lap around the school.  It was fun to get outside and to end upon the playground with the kids.  I taught a class and then had an afternoon prep and used ten minutes of it to do a walk around the neighborhood.  It was really nice to get out.  I think I'm realizing that my sanity depends on spending time outside.  It is therapy time for me.

After school, I had an afternoon snack of 1 cup of grapes and 1 cup of cottage cheese.

When Paul was heading home, he stopped at the store and asked if I needed anything.  I requested a snickers bar.  I love my sweetie, but he brought me home a king size snickers and a package of red vines.   I should have had half of the candy bar and maybe three pieces of the licorice.  I was stupid and ate it all.  I'm kicking myself for it now.  The past couple days the treats haven't bothered me.  I haven't been able to deal with things very well and it has been all I could do to just get through.  Today, though, was different.  I was feeling great, in good head space, but didn't have self control.

Paul and I didn't start dinner right away, so I grabbed one and a half peanut butter sandwiches with the peanut butter just loaded on.  I think I need to clear the house of peanut butter.  I crave it all the time and it's hard for me to control my portions on.  I thought it would be easier now that I've switched to all-natural peanut butter, but now I'm used to it and the portion sizes are climbing again.

For dinner, I had two beef tacos.  Throughout the evening, I had 10 glasses of water.  My pedometer steps now are at 10,709 for the day.