Best’s Comments (group member since May 29, 2011)

Best’s comments from the Reading Instead of Eating group.

I'd gone to Greek festival and brought home two of each of three kinds of cookie while Hubby was out golfing. My intention was for us to eat them together but after an hour I all I could think about was those damn cookies. For an urge that bad, only a new book will do so I spent some time trying to download a kindle app and purchase a copy of "Thinking Shakespeare" but amazon didn't recognize the kindle. Maybe because I didn't buy one?

I was sorely tempted to use the fact that I had gone to yoga in the morning as a rationalization as to why I could eat a lot of ice cream in the afternoon. Instead I plodded down to the basement, set myself up to do some passive hamstring stretches (because the morning had made it obvious how yoga-inept I am and read in the dark on my iphone. Twenty pages later, all those cravings had lessened enough that ginger lemon tea was all I needed until dinner.

I've been trying to lose the same twenty pound for almost as many years. It's taken me that long to truly believe that there truly other antidotes for anxiety besides Doritos and cherry cordial ice cream.

Two years ago, I lost that 20lbs and gained it all back while I dodged credit card companies and student loans debt while trying to find a job. Now that I have a job, I get anxious about other things because my lesser self really misses those Doritos. Here's hoping that I can convince that part of myself to channel that extra adrenalin in a way that won't necessitate buying a new wardrobe every three months.