Feel Better When You've Finished Eating Than When You Started

Round 2!

Two posts this week! I'm starting to get the hang of this again and it feels nice!

So yesterday started off with a loooooong overdue nutrition appointment. Even though I've been seeing these people for months now, the drive there always creates a little bit of anxiety for me. My fear is that I'll sit down, get comfortable, and then not have anything to say. Well, I could have easily put that fear to rest this week because almost as soon as my butt hit the couch I was spewing anecdote after anecdote recalling my past few weeks.

It honestly occurred to me for a moment, "Maybe I should take a breath and let her talk for a while..... She looks like she wants to say something..... Oops, I just interrupted her again." But then I reminded myself I paid for this time, so she can just sit there and focus on gas exchange because I clearly needed to vent.

We talked about how I feel like I'm finally at the height of my weight gain and how hopefully now that it has leveled off I might start to see it go down again. (Fingers, toes, eyes crossed on this one!)

We talked about how I'm starting to feel more comfortable examining how eating certain foods make me feel physically. I told her it's been a miracle that I've passed up the opportunity to get pizza on a few occasions, just because I knew that afterwards I would feel bloated, puffy, and even headache-y(?) It's my blog, I'll invent words if I want to. To this she gave me this nugget of advice, that the goal of eating is to feel better when you are finished than when you started.

Brilliant! Someone should pay her for this stuff, oh wait...

This led to our my next conversation about how I've finally gotten over my greek yogurt aversion. After limiting myself to plain non-fat for so long, even just the thought of it previously brought some stomach acid to the back of my throat. (Too much?) Well somehow, I kind of just woke up one morning with a craving and bam! Here we are again choosing this fine fellow for an almost daily snack. However, --watch your calorie counters explode with this one-- I have decided that full fat, vanilla flavoured* is the way to go! (*Just trying out the alternate spelling of this word for fun. Sorry Brits, it just feels wrong.)

Anyhow, top that sucker with some microwaved frozen berries and granola...... it's basically dessert. Old me would have freaked about the idea of full fat dairy, let alone additional toppings, i.e. calories. So I was actually completely relieved when she said that herself and another nutritionist in their practice have themselves recently made the switch back to full fat dairy. Because fat tastes good! And, I guess the research she's been reading has suggested that even saturated fats aren't as damaging as previously thought.

Who cares??? Argue that all day if you want, I personally just leave the science to my husband. All I know is tastes good and I feel good afterwards.

So we talked about this and much more but I think I'll leave it at that for today. I'm going to go try to vacuum off the thick layer of earth my dogs have brought into the house. I should just give up and have dirt floors.

Peace!

What foods have been making you feel good lately?

Spring Ramblings

Hello Forkers! I'm not entirely sure I like the sound of that but oh well, it works for now.

Well, the seasons have literally changed since I updated this bad boy and I'm not exactly excited about it. Breezy short shorts and skin revealing summer clothes aren't necessarily the types of things I feel like prancing around in these days. I'm honestly dreading it very much and it's been giving me some anxiety thinking about how I'm going to make it through these next few months without a huge sweatshirt to hide behind. Also, cleaning out my closet, as I have been doing, has drastically limited the selection of things I have to wear right now.

However, instead of letting it get to me, I've focused instead on the fact that I get to buy new clothes. So, my plan to brave this steamy season is to utilize A-frame knee length skirts and cardigans with t-shirts. Sounds good, right?

Also, today I ate this brie for breakfast after an exhausting, post night shift grocery shopping session and I just have to say I love him! It felt like such a treat and satisfied the craving I have for something savory after I get home from work. Yay cheese!

Then, my Ulta order came in! I've been on the fence about getting the Anastasia Brow Wiz for months and I finally took the plunge and bought it. I also ordered the Benefit Gimme Brow because I just needed it wanted to try it. Brows galore!

Honestly, I've been super obsessed with drawing my eyebrows in super dark and straight lately. It's no coincidence that I developed this preference after Zack and I binge watched all three seasons of Game of Thrones. I pretty much only pay attention to the scenes with Daenerys in them, I mean......Emilia Clark. Enough said.
So this is my best attempt.

Before brows

After brows!

I've even considered repurchasing these colored contacts I used to buy from this super sketchy strip mall I used to go to in college, and was about two clicks away from ordering a blonde wig online a few days ago, just to make the transformation complete.

Who doesn't like a good dress up session?
Just me??
Cool.

Anyways, that's all my weirdness lately. If you've made it to the end of this post, scattered as it was, I applaud you and hope you found this to be a awesome use of your time.

I'll try to get back to some of the "meatier" stuff later this week, or maybe not. Let me know if you like these fluffier posts. I kinda think they might be nice to lighten it up and add some balance to the blog. After all finding balance is the ultimate goal here!

What are you up to this weekend?