you've got a will of steel, not to eat that ice cream! you're right about eating healthy to keep your energy up when stress hits. just got to implant that as an action in my brain! yesterday was extreme stress and i went into extreme coping mode. which for me is being a control freak and nothing will stand in my way! i had 3 toast with butter and jam plus two packets of sainsburys basics crisps for breakfast(mmm, healthy(!)) then didn't eat again until tea, when i had two wholemeal pitta with houmous and pasta salad, the second one had gherkins and spicy tomato chutney in it. then i had half a crumpet with butter and jam, it would have been a whole one but my daughter wanted the other half. its funny cos i ate half in the kitchen so i could eat it in peace, but felt like i should leave half so that if she wanted some then she could have that and i wouldn't have to make another one, how lazy is that! then i ate lots of jaffa cakes, which i had bought earlier to assist me in keeping me tolerant in the evening. then i had a cup of coffee while i was reading her some stories, which didn't really work cos i was still falling asleep while reading the stories! but i did make it through the day without getting annoyed which is my main aim when its an extreme stress day, apart from once when trying to get her to get her clothes on!
so heres to a slightly less stressful day i hope and slightly more considered eating!
i find that my cravings when stressed are fatty, carby foods, followed by sugary foods, but apparantly that is due to cortisol rising in the body which makes you crave those things. so all i have to do instead, is when those cravings hit is to calm down so the cortisol goes out of my body. and naturally increase the seretonin rather than with sugary fatty snacks.
but when times get tough i find it almost imossible to ignore the cravings!
so thats my next challenge. deal with stress in a non food way.
