I blogged plenty about delicious vegan food. I made it to 16 posts, or 4/5ths of the 20 post recommendation (please correct me if I have the math wrong. Me + numbers = disaster). I talked about MoFo and veganism to those in my daily life, especially at the new job. My coworkers are FASCINATED by what exactly I can eat, their only example being a girl who is on a raw vegan cleanse to lose a bunch of weight for a trip (and is pretty miserable).
On Halloween, I brought my coworkers cupcakes. Just the basic chocolate cupcakes and fluffy buttercream from VCTOTW, dyed green (I didn't have red to make orange!) and decorated with cute Halloween-y sprinkles. I brought in 12 and took home 2.
I also dressed up this year as Luna Lovegood. My awesome friend Crystal channeled Bellatrix LeStrange.
Ok, on to some serious stuff.
Lately, I've been struggling a lot with my eating habits. It's not something that just appeared in my life, but rather a storm brewing just below the surface finally coming up to wreck the land.
One of the biggest issues is how much I'm eating. I don't want to say I'm binging, because I'm not sure that's what it is, but I've been eating really, really fast, continuing onto a second portion and eating that really fast. Late night trips for toast have also been exacerbating this problem. I've had alot of stomachaches as of late and I'm done. I've been trying to make less food to prevent it and slowing my intake down. I used to take FOREVER to eat a sandwich, now I just inhale my way through it. Not healthy. And those cupcakes I made? I took 12 to work, but had two at my house, before work, without even a thought as to "why am I eating these? Am I hungry?"
Another issue is how much bread I've been eating. I love bread. It's just so easy to have toast in the morning, a sandwich at lunch and a snack (or two) of toasted bread with PB. That's 5 pieces, easy, and I've definitely gone over that in a day. I've been attempting to limit my intake to two pieces a day and I believe it's helping. Please know this is not at attempt at low carb/low gluten intake or anything of the sort. I just don't think overdosing on bread helps anyone.
I think both of these issues of mine are being magnified by stress. I'm in school full time and working half time and I was just "promoted" to bookkeeper at my job. Darlings, I am excellent at AP, but since the old bookkeeper left in August this place is pure chaos. And I have no experience in half of what is being expected of me, so I'm struggling with growing pains.
Wish me luck! Tomorrow I plan on posting about a super special lunch I'm having today.
3 comments:
You have a super cute blog! Luna was always my favorite HP character....
I've been trying to share my vegan ways with my colleagues, too, with mixed results. ;) They're all very curious, but in a "there's no way I'd actually try that" kind of way!
Sounds like emotional eating for sure and since you're stressing, the eating would be in line with that.
Maybe a fast would do you some good? When I'm putting too much emphasis on food or abusing it, I always fast. I just did one a couple months back and food and I are back in a healthy relationship again. The fast helps your health, but it also gives you time to meditate and find out what's going on inside.
Anyhoo- this is my first time on your blog, so I'm going to cruise around and see what else is going on!
Ooh your costume is great!! :D
I think it sounds like emotional eating too or stress eating. I do it sometimes too when I am stressed. When I do, I try to drink a lot of water and carry around a big water bottle with me and set a water goal so I focus on that instead of snacking a lot. Carbs are the devil.
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