Writing myself to the right weight or something like that...
There are no coincidences.
I've been mentally struggling to be a writer while being a good wife, mother and grandmother. I call myself a wanna-be-writer because I rarely feel inspired to put anything great down on paper. I'm not an "author" - I'm just like so many others who feel drawn to write - about life. Well thanks to a good friend I now have a great reason to write more! In my previous post I shared that I have started a journey to better health - yes, that means I'm trying to lose weight. I recognized a very long time ago that I am an emotional eater. I eat when I'm stressed, angry, fearful, happy, excited, bored - you know, pretty much all the time. If I'm awake, I'm eating. In fact, sometimes when I'm asleep I'm probably eating in my dreams! I love food. I love cooking food. I love feeding people - one person or a crowd of people - it's how I love on them. Food is my love language. The most lively conversations anyone will ever experience with me will be those that center around food, gardening, family and faith - not necessarily in that order. I have a cooking blog. It's not a very well developed blog - neither is this one - but it's my project for being creative with the things I enjoy - food and writing. It just makes sense then that a book that a friend pointed me to caught my attention immediately. I ordered it within minutes of getting her message and reading the reviews. I hope it will inspire a couple of things - 1) I think it will help me be intentional about writing when I wouldn't ordinarily feel like I could or should 2) it will give me another valuable tool to help me step away from poor eating habits.
Update on that journey:
Susan
I've been mentally struggling to be a writer while being a good wife, mother and grandmother. I call myself a wanna-be-writer because I rarely feel inspired to put anything great down on paper. I'm not an "author" - I'm just like so many others who feel drawn to write - about life. Well thanks to a good friend I now have a great reason to write more! In my previous post I shared that I have started a journey to better health - yes, that means I'm trying to lose weight. I recognized a very long time ago that I am an emotional eater. I eat when I'm stressed, angry, fearful, happy, excited, bored - you know, pretty much all the time. If I'm awake, I'm eating. In fact, sometimes when I'm asleep I'm probably eating in my dreams! I love food. I love cooking food. I love feeding people - one person or a crowd of people - it's how I love on them. Food is my love language. The most lively conversations anyone will ever experience with me will be those that center around food, gardening, family and faith - not necessarily in that order. I have a cooking blog. It's not a very well developed blog - neither is this one - but it's my project for being creative with the things I enjoy - food and writing. It just makes sense then that a book that a friend pointed me to caught my attention immediately. I ordered it within minutes of getting her message and reading the reviews. I hope it will inspire a couple of things - 1) I think it will help me be intentional about writing when I wouldn't ordinarily feel like I could or should 2) it will give me another valuable tool to help me step away from poor eating habits.
Update on that journey:
- I've made my goal of 10,000 steps on nearly every day and many days I am well over that goal!
- I have pushed through what I expected to be rough waters - my sugar addiction - and it wasn't so bad really
- I am drinking lots and lots and lots of WATER!!
- I have resumed my morning walking as much as possible. On those days I'm crushing that 10,000 step goal
- I've lost 4 pounds as of this past Monday :-) Weigh-in for me will typically be on Fridays. But I couldn't resist.
- I'm learning to use MyFitnessPal like a champ and I still absolutely love my FitBit!
- Yesterday I modified one of my favorite recipes to meet the macros I am striving for and it had the same great flavor as the less macro-friendly version. WIN!
Susan
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