Life's little ups and downs

First of all this week started with a "high". On monday evening at 6pm with clothes and shoes on (it all counts) I weighed 179.5#...what this means is that I'm officially just overweight (BMI 29.5)! Wait, this doesn't mean that I'm going to change the name of my blog (haha), it just means I'm one cheeseburger away from being over 180# again.
Let me explain emotional eating. It doesn't mean that you just eat when your sad. It also means you eat when you're happy, or stressed, or bored, etc. The key is to look over your life and see what your triggers are. It could be one or all of these reasons. It doesn't even mean that you "binge" eat either. I personally eat when I'm stressed. I can go through an entire bag of pretzles without even thinking or just grab a hand full of "anything" when walking past the refrigerator all day long. I just told myself I am a "snacker". This process has forced me to look at what can change these "habits". As I stated before I just began to focus on exercise. But it doesn't have to be exercise, it could be reading, art, playing with your kids. Try anything, try everything...whatever will break this path. When you begin to feel yourself walking to the kitchen just "because...", recognize what you are doing and do something different. Ask yourself if you are hungry, chances are you're not.
This week was a tough one..personally, professionally, etc. It just seemed like everytime I turned around there was a new issues. After a really hard day Wednesday, I ran on the treadmill for an hour. Around 3pm today, I began to really crave food because of employee issues. I was walking to Starbucks, looked at the menu and was ready for that caramel latte. But then this time was different, I didn't give into the cravings, I choose a coffee with Splenda instead. I wasn't going to move above that 180# mark!