Oprah, chocolate, stress and etc

I'm thinking about weight a lot because of Oprah's recent confessions about her weight. Oprah is so freaking open and vulnerable, it really makes me feel awful because I wish I was that way, too.

I was getting annoyed with my hubby today (we were having a stressful time trying to get a stray cat, who we had brought in overnight to recover after we got him "fixed" yesterday to leave and go back outside, and I didn't think he was handling it properly and was really impatient. Then I had to clean up the bathroom, where the cat had been staying, and was getting even more annoyed. Then I go out to ask him something, and what do I do? Eat four hershey kisses. Why? Was I craving chocolate? Not particularly. Was I hungry? Not really. Was I bored? Yeah. Was I stressed out? Yes.

So I'm a stress eater. But it's so ingrained in me. "Comfort food" is more than just warm shepherd's pie. It's anything. It's Doritos. It's cereal. Chocolate. Little Debbie's brownies.

I gotta figure out other healthy things to do so I don't grab the damn hershey kisses all the time. Still, four isn't that bad. They have 25 calories each. So that was 100 calories of stress reduction.

Maybe I could rock out on guitar hero instead. But it takes so loooong to load and set up. Something faster. I'll have to think.

All in all, it wasn't that bad today. I had:

cereal (quaker oatmeal squares - cold, but loads of fiber)
chicken salad sandwich
cole slaw
small amount of strawberry shortcake

teriyaki chicken, rice and veggies

four pieces of chocolate
cereal
a few doritos

And I worked out for 35 minutes on the elliptical machine. Not too shabby, so say I.