This morning, I had an appointment with a therapist for my teenaged son who (bless his heart) is a dear precious young man who stays out of trouble and is quite intelligent, but he flat-out refuses to do well in school. He doesn't like to do homework. Anyway ... today's appointment was to discuss putting him on ADHD/ADD medication. I am not convinced or thrilled about this, and I am equally as frustrated and angry that he wouldn't simply sit down and get his schoolwork done properly.
The whole morning was painted melancholy for me. By 10:30, I was dropping him off at home and heading off to work. I'd forgotten my lunch, and really really *really* wanted some warm comfort food (refined carbs and fat, preferably from a fast-food restaurant). Success #1: I staved off the mid-morning "I'm mad so I'm going to eat at you!" binge.
I also knew that if I didn't stop at a store on my way to work for something, I would make a terrible lunch choice at the work cafeteria (again, usually resulting in refined carbs and fat). I stopped at a grocery store and picked up a huge southwestern salad to bring to work ... romaine lettuce, tomatoes, red peppers, southwest chicken, roasted-corn salsa, tortilla-chip strips, and dressing. The whole salad had 700 calories, but I dumped out the crunchy tortilla chips immediately, and only used half of the dressing (probably shedding half of those fat calories). Success #2: found a way to make a decent in-a-pinch lunch choice.
It doesn't seem like much, but the fact that I didn't EAT when I was mad is HUGE. And the fact that I found a way to find a decent-enough lunch (and alter it so it was even healthier) made me feel like, no matter what my weigh-in is this week, I made the healthiest choice I could make, given the circumstances.