Feeling overwhelmed? Like—you just don’t want to do anything but veg out? You’re not alone sisters … today, I started out with a healthy half of a tuna salad sandwich for lunch (on whole grain bread, of course) and ended the meal with a slice of yummy French toast! (Also made from whole grain bread, but with a generous topping of sugar and a side helping of strawberry jam!) OMG! It was good, and this meal enabled me to carry on with the rest of my afternoon’s work. How many other meals can get you going like that?
Guilt? Not one single, little, tiny bit! Sometimes you just gotta go with your gut—literally! If your head is telling you to have that low-fat spinach salad with tuna, and a no-calorie dressing, but your dependable little tummy is insisting “NO! Not gonna happen—I very badly need that slice of French toast!” Honey, go with the gut! On your deathbed, you are NOT going to remember that lonely little slice of cucumber on the side, but you are definitely going to remember the French toast! Trust me on this …
But girls, how do we get to this point? C’mon … we just had two glasses of that incredible Pinot Noir with dinner last night, our favorite basketball team FINALLY won a game, and we got that report done … how wrong could our world be that we absolutely have to combine the tuna salad with French toast for lunch? And, simultaneously, we are already planning what wine will go best with the Chinese takeout that we are planning for tonight? AA, here we come?
Nah … sometimes we just overload, and yeah, the emotional eating impulse kicks into gear. If it happens every day, or even every other day, then ummm … there might be a problem here, Houston. But, if like most women, it’s just once in a while, when we’ve been super overloaded and over-stressed, then HELL! Go with it! Enjoy yourself, do a few extra weights, dance a couple of disco songs while you’re doing the dishes, and most important of all, fugettaboutit! Not the end of the world—don’t do your daily weigh-in the next day (What are you, masochistic?), and enjoy the heck outta that French toast—you can’t eat it when you’re dead!
