Tuesday Ramblings

Well I survived my first night of business communications, wahoo! Granted, I didn't actually have to speak so it wasn't really hard for me to be there. And the professor actually seems pretty great, so maybe the whole class won't be as scary of an experience as I'm expecting. I think a lot of the time I make things a lot worse in my head than they actually are.

I'm having a hungry or rather a stress-hungry day. I find that I'm one of those people who relies heavily on food to get through stressful times. Its a big part of the reason I have gotten as heavy as I have. It's weird because even though I know I'm not actually hungry and that I just want to eat because I'm stressed, I still do it. It's amazing to me how hard that habit is to change. (I realize I just started three sentences in a row with the word Its, but I don't really feel like changing it)

One of the benefits to being gluten free now though is it seriously limits my snack food options, so even when I want to stress eat, I don't eat nearly as much as I used to because the food just isn't as good. Eating gluten free chocolate chip cookies is nothing like eating nestle cookie dough straight from the tube, or uh, eating fully cooked nestle tollhouse cookies.

I've been gluten free for a little over a month now. The whole thing started on a suggestion from my doctor as a possible cause for the migraines I'd been having (at their worst I was getting them 2 times a week, in fact, I took more sick days in 2009 than I did vacation days they were so out of control) We'd tried pretty much everything else and nothing was working, so I decided to try going gluten free. I'm about a month in and have only had one real migraine that I couldn't kick with medicine. For me, that is nothing short of a miracle.

So, for the foreseeable future, this girl will remain on a gluten free diet. It not only helps my health, but it has unexpected benefits of say not being able to stress eat on my favorite foods. I'd imagine this can only do good things for my goal of losing weight!

I'm contemplating going to the gym and am totally wavering. I just don't really enjoy the gym. But I'm not sure anyone really ENJOYS the gym, so sucking it up and going is probably my best option. Or if I don't do that, the least I can do is take a walk around the block. Or dance around my apartment when I get home. I pretty much will take activity anywhere I can get it!