Hey Chicks!!

Well I won’t get into it, but I have a lot to deal with in my life right now. Today was just one of those days that really got to me – I have a headache and feel like my insides are being squished (sounds weird but that’s how stress makes me feel!)

Like most Chicks with a few pounds to lose, I am an emotional eater. God, how I would love to be one of those Chicks that can’t eat when stressed…I’d be a twig!!! Anyway, I am trying not to eat away my emotions. Instead I had 12 cups of tea today – total caffeine overload (and dairy too!) then after a fight with the bf and another stressful evening yelling at 2 year olds (there are lots of hugs and giggles too – but my time with the twins is never stress-free!) I ended up eating a few spoonfuls of almond butter and I made myself this old box of sugar-free chocolate pudding I found in the cupboard. Well I don’t know what the heck they put in that box o’ pudding, but after not consuming a packaged food in a week and a half I feel all spinny and weird. After reading the package I am not surprised due to all the chemicals in there. You probably don’t realize how much food additives effect you until you get that crap out of your body.

This month I have also blogged about food labels, and there have been some great FB tips posted, and I should take FIT CHICKS advice. This particular pudding is marketed as a Lite product. It is low in calories and fat and looking at the nutritional info doesn’t seem so bad….until you look at the ingredients! Ready for this….cocoa, glucose solids (aka sugar), palm kernel oil (aka processed fats), fructose (aka sugar), modified palm oil (aka trans fats)….then there are a total of 13 chemicals!!!

No wonder I feel like crap after eating this – it makes me really angry that people are buying these foods thinking they are healthy and doing a good thing for themselves. Grrrrr!

Anyway, rant over. Here are my eats for today –

brekkie – 2 eggs and turkey sausage
snack – smoked oysters, apple and almond butter
lunch – salad topped with grilled scallops, goat cheese, walnuts, and red pepper drizzled with olive oil
dinner – crappy pudding, too much almond butter, some bites of my girls’ omelettes.

I need to refocus and re-commit to my goals. This tea drinking is getting out of control again, so is this almond butter addiction!

I need to find something to relieve my stress besides food 🙂