I didn't login to 3FC yesterday, so I guess I'll post an extra thing today, to make up for it! Hmm...
1. At my workplace - I work at the school library - my boss insists on taking pictures of all of the employees and posting them (with our names) in a common area, presumably so we can all get to know what each other looks like and learn each other's names. When he took our pictures last year, I liked mine well enough and didn't think much of it... But they took new ones this year, and there's about a ~50 lb difference in my pictures from this year to last year--yea! Well they finally got around to posting the new pictures yesterday, and my boss actually told me to make sure I went and looked at them, because he thought mine had turned out really well--and it did! I look so pretty (hehe), and it's 1000x better than last year's. Then later, another girl that I work with said something like "you look so cute in your picture!" That definitely gave me a bit of a boost.
2. I am really sick today, like really REALLY sick--I have the worst sore throat ever, headache, achy muscles (and everything else), fatigued, and just basically feel like absolute junk. All I wanted to when I finished with class/work for the day was crawl into bed with a bag of chips or candy... Because I always turn to food for comfort... But NOT TODAY. I went to get my dinner to-go from the cafeteria, and I sooo wanted to get some fries, or a dessert (cake or a cookie, mmm), or stop by the student convenience store and pick up a bag of Sun Chips... Or even order pizza for myself instead of eating the stupid cafeteria food. It was so hard to resist, because I'm inclined to think "I'm
sick; I can have whatever the h*** I want!" But I just kept telling myself
Eating junk will not make you feel better... It might lift my mood temporarily, but I don't want to encourage my body/mind to have that kind of emotional response to food. So I got a normal, healthy dinner, and I ate as if it were a normal day and I wasn't feeling awful. I think instead of overeating tonight, I'm going to take a bath, or paint my nails, or something comforting that ISN'T unhealthy. I'm so proud of myself--this feels like a big step for me.