Accountability

I walked to the grocery store at lunchtime! Go me! I did not get a morning walk in this morning. Bad me. (I will say I cannot motivate myself in the morning and the husband has been sleeping in after being up half the night working). I walked to the grocery store because we are out of the twin necessities of trash bags and coffee, and when you have a five month old in diapers you REALLY REALLY need both.

I had also eaten most of my lunch for the day, and I thought I might get hungry. I think part of the problem is that I'm not packing enough for lunch. I mean, I pack what seems like a nice healthy lunch in the morning and then I get to work and enter it into my tracker and realize I still have 23 points to eat for dinner. (See previous post on things to use up points). I also get hungry midafternoon, so I scrounge (see previous post on stepping away from the Starbucks). These are things I need to work on.

Now the accountability part. At the store, in addition to my trashbags (Hefty Cinch Sack) and Coffee (Peet's French Roast), I bought a salad (go me! - cabbage, zucchini, beets, a few chickpeas and balsamic vinegar. And 1 T blue cheese dressing), and a box of Kashi Granola Bars. Individually, the bars are quite good for me. But having a box of granola bars in my office is potentially very very bad. I KNOW I have a tendency to eat what food is available. I KNOW this. And yet I set myself up for failure. (Hey, at least I didn't buy a box of Mallomars). So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to tell you how many granola bars are left in that box every day this week. Right now the box is unopened and there are six bars.

There. Now you know. No more secret eating. Which is a post for another day.