STRESSED = DESSERTS spelled backwards

Yeah, I haven’t been documenting so well on the blog (maybe out of shame), but I’ve been eating a lot of sugar of the past week.  I think two things are at play here:

1.  Opportunity:  I bought four boxes of Girl Scout Cookies last week.  They are now gone.

Here’s two of them.

2.  I am a bit stressed.  I don’t think I realized how stressed, until I thought about how much I’ve been munching over the past week.  We are getting busy at work, and I have too much to do.  Trying to fit it into my four day week is a big task. (To top it off Matt has been working five 10 hour days for the last three weeks, too!!)   Why am I only working 4 days per week?  I am taking this little 8 hour test in April (the professional engineering exam), which requires studying 20 hours per week (at least that’s our goal).  I am also getting very nervous about my brother leaving for Afghanistan next week.  Finally, there’s a personal thing that I’m growing very anxious about.  The more I think about it, the more anxious I get.

All of this together is not helping me.  I should take Beckey and Kelly’s advice, and probably write it out.

With so many things “out of my control”, I really should focus on what is in my control.  And one BIG thing should be my food.  I mean, no one is forcing these cookies down my throat . . .

So one announcement: I am going VEGETARIAN for Lent.  My friend Beckey encouraged me to challenge myself, and I think that this could be a good focus for healthy foods for a short amount of time.  One caveat is, that  I will allow myself to eat some fish if we are out at a restaurant.  I rarely if ever eat fish at home, so this could just be a once a week thing.

Vegetarian suggestions?

Okay, onto some food from yesterday:

Southwestern Shepherd’s Pie from the Slow Cooker.  I added broth since I was afraid of too many potatoes not cooking and used different dried chilis, so it’s a bit different than last time.

Eggplant parm & sausage sandwich from my lunch date with Matt (ate half of it for lunch yesterday and half for today).

VEGGIES/FRUITS for yesterday: banana, eggplant, red peppers, sweet potatoes . . didn’t eat a fifth one. ARGH!

And guess what came in the mail?!

I am now allowed to leave the country!  And go on our cruise in two months.

Okay, time to go run a few Valentine’s errands . . .