DAY 23 BIG CHEAT

Well, it's going quite well, but I did cheat big time today.
I was feeling very hungry, and the kids talked me into making cookies...I ate a bunch of batter. I mean, I didn't pig-out and eat the whole batch or anything, but a couple cookies worth! GASP!
I guess the moral of today's lesson is that you can't let yourself get too hungry. I noticed that today, which i pretty much have skipped lunch 2 days in a row, I started craving foods again. You know when you are so hungry you don't care what you eat? You could eat the worst thing off the BK menu and it sounds good? So that is the lesson here today.
I think the kids are my weakness. It's hardest denying them the wonders of sweets. I do my best to limit them, but Sawyer was begging for days to make cookies. For those of you who know Sawyer, it's rare that he wants to do something with us, so when he asks, it's hard to say no because it's so unusual and we don't want to discourage him. So I snuck some batter. I'm not gonna lie, it tasted good, but it was the first time in weeks that I felt yucky-full after eating. That full sensation that is like, "Uhgh, I shouldn't have eaten that". So in the end not really worth it, but it was good.

I bagged up the cookies in a bunch of separate bags for the freezer so they only have a couple out at a time. I had been doing so well, but the last day or 2 have been falling in a rut, and not wanting to branch out in my eating to eat enough. So I haven't been eating much lunch. A few weeks ago I was really starting to venture out to lots of new foods, but this week it was very routine, and if I couldn't think of anything to make I just go without. You get used to being hungry. I shouldn't have to be, and need to be expanding my diet again. Like more of the yogurt, milk, kefir.

I am also kind of tired of running to the store because we are always out of something. I need to work on just making lists all the time, and also not buying tons of stuff each time that I don't really need.

It seems like we've been at this a while, but it's only been 3 weeks so I remind myself I can't expect perfection at this point. I need to keep trying new recipes, new places to shop, etc.

I am looking forward to Monday, my friend and I are going to go to Ann Arbor to check out Trader Joes, a whole foods big box store. Hope to find good deals and more variety, especially things like goat milk products, more sprouted grain products (I want to find torillas and pizza crust), and hope they have bulk foods so I can purchase the whole grains to grind myself.