home ALL day... distract me from food!
 

hey everyone...

i'm off work all this week to rest my ankle that is home to a torn ligament. i work at a hardware store with the concrete floor, so i needed a break from all the standing and walking around.

the problem is, i'm now sitting at home all day with all this food in front of me to snack on. i've got a plate with some carrots, broccoli, celery and light ranch dressing in front of me and i'm trying to limit my snacking to that, but there is a candy dish of hershey kisses over on the coffee table and tons of yummy leftover food in my fridge that suddenly seems like ambrosia!

i have a chatroom created here: http://tinychat.com/3fc (all you need is to enter the ID you want to use to get in) for live chat distraction...

and i'll be checking back frequently because message boards always distract me.

veggies and water, not chocolate and soda. *focus!*

You can do it!

If you're able, I'd toss the chocolate up into a cabinet for the day. Out of sight out of mind.

haha. except for hubby will be like "wait, where'd it go?" as soon as he gets home... it's a test of my will power.

mental yoga?

Really good book always does the trick for me! And Abigail glass of water when the munchies strike!

i've got a merry gentry book by laurell k hamilton sitting next to me too! i've read the anita blake series, and a friend of mine gave me her set of the merry books.

Yay chat! I'm there!

Sounds to me like you need to get your hands busy, k0nfyo0zed --- knitting, embroidery, sketching, writing letters, planning a garden on paper, cleaning out a drawer, blogging, putting together your personalized cookbook from online recipes, crank up some tunes and sit-dance .... It's really hard for a person who is normally active like you to just sit! :hyper: LOL

I love the book idea --- and in fact, have read a lot of the Anita Blake books and at least 2 of the Merry series --- but for me, reading and noshing are very strongly linked. My most mindless eating takes place while I read. If you don't have that problem, then losing yourself in the problems of a Sidhe princess might be the perfect solution.

Don't forget your water. And I hope your ankle improves rapidly.

:book2:

thank you! i used to crochet... but i've forgotten how :(

and i used to make bead jewelry... but i don't have the materials.

so i'm chatting and drinking water lol

also, this will be dessert later this week:

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Tiramisu-Parfaits

nomnomnom.

thank you to everyone who distracted me today :D it was a success!

tomorrow, i will need it all over again :)

Very creative starting a chat room! I need to try that! Sometimes I just need someone to talk me through it. : ) I would have a VERY hard time with Hershey anything in the room. Good girl!!

I'll try and pop in again tomorrow to say "hi" :)
PS: I got a 6 mile walk after I left chat! And I did, technically, beat the rain! (got dark but never actually rained lol)

alright ladies. i've kept myself busy til now...

and now i'm ready to sit down and nosh! got my water, just had some yogurt and a fiber plus bar... got some kale chips...

i don't need to snack on anything else!

remember: chat is here! http://tinychat.com/3fc

I'm gonna pop on!

Mandy -- You are not going to thank me for this later, but try this word association game. You just enter guesses for any word related to the words that you have already revealed. It's fun, helps pass time and is completely maddening. I've spent waaaay too much time on this in the past. I think I was working on this when I was pregnant in the period between when I finished working and when I had the baby. Anyway, enjoy!

angie that game is nuts. i love word association games :D