It happened one night...a full-blown binge

It's strange how the harder I try to be "good", and the more I focus on thinking about always doing the right thing with food and exercise, the more obsessed I become with the idea of binging.<br /><br />Yesterday was the culmination of weeks of work stress. There was some marriage stress mixed in there too but I think we've worked through that and are back on pretty solid ground. Things are winding down at work too, finally there's a feeling of calm after weeks and weeks of intense pressure to work faster and harder, along with major stress. <br /><br />So what the hell happened? I don't really know how to explain it other than something just came over me. I've been feeling really hungry lately, but eating very clean, very healthy. Maybe my portions have sometimes been a little on the large side, but I haven't been gaining weight, just holding steady in the the 174-175 range. Not at all where I want to be (135).<br /><br />I shop at a Northwest grocery store, Fred Meyers. It's a large grocery store, sort of a one-stop shopping kind of place. For the last couple of months they've had a big display of caramel frosted yellow cake sitting right by the check-out area. You have to pass it to get in line to check out your groceries. You can't miss this huge display of cake.<br /><br />I have a thing for caramel. I love it. Anything caramel, it's my favorite. I don't really care for chocolate, but I'm in heaven with caramel. I also love yellow cake, hate chocolate cake. So this was a dangerous combination for me. Thick caramel frosting covering a tall two-layer yellow cake. <br /><br />You can buy the cake in a package of two big slices, or 1/2 of the cake, or the entire cake. Every week I would look at this cake and think, no way! Poison for sure. I pass by it and head down the ice cream aisle to buy my sugar-free Skinny Cow sandwiches or the Weight Watcher fudge bars or the Dryers fruit bars (Pomegranate - 70 calories each). Week after week for at least two months.<br /><br />Then yesterday happened. It was Halloween at work since most people work from home on Friday. I dressed up as a vampire in a very uncomfortable wig and lots of makeup (I'm doing it again this weekend so I'll post pictures). By mid-afternoon I felt kind of sick. The giant wig was hot, the hair from the wig was in my face all day and the makeup was itchy. I had only eaten my healthy lunch. I didn't touch the Halloween desserts or candy. I finally called it quits at 3pm and headed home. <br /><br />On my way home I thought about that caramel cake. I thought about going home, ripping off the costume and washing my face and heading back to the store. I also thought about listening to Geneen Roth's "What to do in the middle of binge" CD that was sitting right there in the seat next to me in my car. I made the conscious decision that I just flat out didn't care. To hell with the diet and Geneen Roth (sorry Geneen...it's nothing personal). <br /><br />I did exactly what I had planned. When I got home I changed clothes, washed off all the makeup and headed to Fred Meyers. I bought an entire caramel cake, three pints of Häagen-Dazs, a dozen bakery sugar cookies with pink frosting and a package of vanilla doublestuff Oreos, along with a gallon of 1% milk. <br /><br />I ate 1/3 of the cake. The frosting was so sweet it literally hurt my teeth and it made my stomach hurt. I also ate one pint of the Häagen-Dazs. I had a miserable night. Of course, I ate all of this before my husband got home and I hid the remains. I tossed and turned all night. I had horrible night sweats, something I haven't had in weeks. <br /><br />I broke every one of Geneen Roth's eating guidelines. Again, I just didn't care. <br /><br />This morning was filled with regrets, but I got up and got myself to the gym for forty minutes of cardio. I'm heading back at noon for 40 minutes of strength. <br /><br />When I came home from the gym I took the remaining caramel cake, the unopened Oreos and pink-iced sugar cookies, tore open the packages and dumped everything into a garbage bag. Then I cleaned the cat's litter box dumping the dirty litter on top of the food. I know that's really disgusting, but I've been known to pull things out of the garbage. The contents of the two remaining unopened Häagen-Dazs containers are now down the garbage disposal. <br /><br />I just don't know how I feel about this whole thing. Why did I do that? It made me feel awful. Guilty. Sad. It didn't make anything in my life better. The entire time I was doing it I knew exactly what I was doing. <br /><br />I haven't done anything that extreme for a very long time. Maybe even over a year or more. I've had a pint of ice cream a few times, but I haven't purchased a cake with the intention of eating the entire thing, along with two packages of cookies and three pints of ice cream. What the hell was I thinking? Was I even thinking anything?<br /><br />I guess the difference between yesterday and my past full-blown binges is that I didn't actually eat the entire cake or the any of the cookies or all of the ice cream. In my past I would have continued the binge into today until every morsel was gone. I also would NOT have gone to the gym after a night of binging. <br /><br />Maybe I have changed. Maybe I will be okay. It's just surprising to me how easily I can fall back into old, bad habits. It's disturbing that I seemed to be completely out of control yesterday. <br /><br />Even though I've come a long way, I still have a long way to go...

It happened one night...a full-blown binge

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No Counting Thursday

TGIF!!! And I couldn't be happier!<br /><br />So my dear blog friends, I hope after reading this post you don't abandon me! I pretty much threw "counting points" out the window on Thursday. SHOCK, I know! <br /><br />I started out with a bowl of Reeses Puffs for breakfast, all enjoyed in my Iowa Hawkeye bowl!! <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJUzS6TfbEkYNICJmdRhRw5tDLBzM2cbyHpMxFPwe5kwRkkOYW23IpisYJtMnN65fdnkxz9IJ48LeT1QHTI_bKlFTND-NH5YUzhsZNumrCwgMcQVJ00rw5mpJ4jVJ5Tn1p0_D6-j9xdy4/s1600/DSC09117.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533493369664897826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinJUzS6TfbEkYNICJmdRhRw5tDLBzM2cbyHpMxFPwe5kwRkkOYW23IpisYJtMnN65fdnkxz9IJ48LeT1QHTI_bKlFTND-NH5YUzhsZNumrCwgMcQVJ00rw5mpJ4jVJ5Tn1p0_D6-j9xdy4/s400/DSC09117.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />I felt SO snacky throughout the morning and my first snack was this <span style="font-weight:bold;">yogurt parfait</span>, not bad for only <span style="font-weight:bold;">2 points</span>! (ok so I did count some points!)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFbAy5TcWNVZk6oTagYh8DX-5CxqZ7JY_tfnWFfSNYCnfujstyTVS0TwLWR3BGEkeFfrF4FuYYILAd9fUBayFD-M-DTMeIfancwhVjl6C9f1DiucpL4wOLM7gDavBzuruapecdzOx5Tzv/s1600/DSC09118.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533493353137206130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDFbAy5TcWNVZk6oTagYh8DX-5CxqZ7JY_tfnWFfSNYCnfujstyTVS0TwLWR3BGEkeFfrF4FuYYILAd9fUBayFD-M-DTMeIfancwhVjl6C9f1DiucpL4wOLM7gDavBzuruapecdzOx5Tzv/s400/DSC09118.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />My 2nd snack was some crunchy <span style="font-weight:bold;">carrot sticks</span>!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGhUZg7w3kw2y84RGJz9htuUS48Kq74VJhdrlaJ6RLrUt452nlnHFN-jf2lfuyJdrnYqEttZ4_6gcBY4J4FHcbQLp3bQGBF8agV15HsRqS1NNe5Pka8aKUz47mGqkxu8mTmvMFOVsGpIby/s1600/DSC09119.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533493013709819314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGhUZg7w3kw2y84RGJz9htuUS48Kq74VJhdrlaJ6RLrUt452nlnHFN-jf2lfuyJdrnYqEttZ4_6gcBY4J4FHcbQLp3bQGBF8agV15HsRqS1NNe5Pka8aKUz47mGqkxu8mTmvMFOVsGpIby/s400/DSC09119.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />I ran a few errands on my lunch break today and one included a stop to our local grocery store here in Iowa, <a href="http://www.hy-vee.com/">HyVee</a>. I LOVE their Chinese food and who could resist this deal, I got ALL this food for $5! I only ate 1/2 though and saved the other half for another meal.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNAcB8-rZG3An3U7bZro-x8mbLfMiqCv56G4ODDTILQExbSoO6kTqbLd4VUly5JI5LYqMDPVRyu5y2ra3ucI9QQY5qouRmASubOkuIGLo2qrSd8o2Z7a9N3BWBNc5wU3OldoBeOQAmbcV/s1600/DSC09120.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533493005338152306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUNAcB8-rZG3An3U7bZro-x8mbLfMiqCv56G4ODDTILQExbSoO6kTqbLd4VUly5JI5LYqMDPVRyu5y2ra3ucI9QQY5qouRmASubOkuIGLo2qrSd8o2Z7a9N3BWBNc5wU3OldoBeOQAmbcV/s400/DSC09120.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />I was proud that I only ate half, the "old" Darci would have scarfed that whole plate of food down!<br /><br />The other reason for my HyVee lunch run was to pick up some peanuts & candy corn, I have been craving that sweet & salty combo for a while now! The good part is that I shared with my co-workers so I don't have that entire mix at my house constantly tempting me!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikUCYJju6RAo6wyl-41N4Snc6pP2qrGqNx770nnaI7edoYbCAUSQ4FyICuyDztztCR9x3JibUxpEKBl72Pqhw8ULG4hSsJP40GBl3iI4I_8ngYeR_Kd7uwX8MRnu01ePtcNnq-hthJfSdN/s1600/DSC09121.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533492994439135362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikUCYJju6RAo6wyl-41N4Snc6pP2qrGqNx770nnaI7edoYbCAUSQ4FyICuyDztztCR9x3JibUxpEKBl72Pqhw8ULG4hSsJP40GBl3iI4I_8ngYeR_Kd7uwX8MRnu01ePtcNnq-hthJfSdN/s400/DSC09121.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />After work I spent the rest of my evening with these two cuties, Wendi & Hayden!! I feel like he changes every time I see him, he's getting SO big!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2zg0a97DoZsAtU_fmKvxdz05l8zCSgejx8EVQTKXa-vP18wcHnPz-Z36aYCJRcZUes7hYIT7rVKDNpIgQHvJuJqGg5XbOJ4SbU5nyrhpo9nL-_-f_qImZn447FGGoaiyo-VGN2fSYD-7/s1600/71526_534950574703_210201033_31377794_5111619_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533492990182801810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2zg0a97DoZsAtU_fmKvxdz05l8zCSgejx8EVQTKXa-vP18wcHnPz-Z36aYCJRcZUes7hYIT7rVKDNpIgQHvJuJqGg5XbOJ4SbU5nyrhpo9nL-_-f_qImZn447FGGoaiyo-VGN2fSYD-7/s400/71526_534950574703_210201033_31377794_5111619_n.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" /></a><br />Supper was some of my Mom's delicious homemade potato soup. I ended up having another scoop after this, it was SO good!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7v-J4xVBYndBrCUWa57g6STdWI_hjpxBRGsrmO9BmAA4mOQh8vcn8JClGKm6i10INeRgSy-5yLT0P-7drwaHCS4jeQsvyI7COiXS9DRX0OmcykAHHDBqztM4KojKs16rNSMOWU1NMpWC7/s1600/DSC09122.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533492980119072898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7v-J4xVBYndBrCUWa57g6STdWI_hjpxBRGsrmO9BmAA4mOQh8vcn8JClGKm6i10INeRgSy-5yLT0P-7drwaHCS4jeQsvyI7COiXS9DRX0OmcykAHHDBqztM4KojKs16rNSMOWU1NMpWC7/s400/DSC09122.JPG" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br /><br />Don't worry I'll be right back to counting points tomorrow! We all have those days...right?!?! It's just <span style="font-weight:bold;">important </span>to get right back to plan afterward.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Happy Friday!!! </span>

No Counting Thursday

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Mise à jour des "Chiffres sociaux utiles"

Depuis le 1er septembre 2010, l'allocation aux adultes handicapés a été revalorisée de 2,2 %. Le montant mensuel de base a été porté à 7...

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