My comfort foods are Ice Cream Cones, Ice Cream Bars and Hershey's Kisses. If I don't buy them I don't eat them, but when I go into the grocery store they just seem to call to me. I tend to eat them in the evening when I am sitting here at the computer.
I like ice cream cones and bars, too! But for more nutritional (?) comfort food, I can settle for White Castle cheeseburgers or Red Baron individual pizzas! I have trouble getting myself to eat responsibly and healthily... There's no one around to "catch" me eating junk!
That is the same with me Marty. I much all day on junk and then when dinner comes I am not hungry.
Today has not been as tough as our Anniversary. I miss him giving me a card and taking me
out to dinner, but food does not appeal to me.
I also eat junk during the day and rarely eat at night.
((((hugs)))) I miss those.
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Good post Deb,
I gained over 2 stone since Richard, I was already about 1.5 stone more than I'd like, consequently my BMI is 33, so I need to deal with it. I have managed to lose 1 stone since Summer of last year, however, I've been so immobile since Richard, and with my feet. I'm hoping that in a couple of months' time I'll be able to walk a lot of it off.
I still don't cook for myself, I really must, it's just so easy to graze and it's just too much effort to put the oven on. I love pasta, but I guess my downfall is just too much of my good food, fruit in large quantities. I do love plain chocolate digestive biscuits.
HOWEVER, I went shopping the day before my op - and I'm ashamed to say that I seemed to go mad and at the side of my bed I've got "healthy" oh yeah, Crisps, a couple of bags of maltesers (with the less fattening centre) only trouble is I have 3 large bags !!!! and a couple of cakes in the fridge - oh yes I even stopped at Starbucks and bought a couple of lemon & poppy seed muffins - lovely - I guess I felt it was my last opportunity to buy treats before being grounded for 6 weeks.
I have noticed, however, that I've gone off certain foods that I'd eaten all my life since Richard, I guess it was the shock of Richard that caused it.
I seem to be craving things from my youth. Which I guess is good because you can't find a lot of them out here. We grew up with frozen custard and it is hard to find as are the breaded tenderloins if you are not in the midwest. Marty, I envy the White Castles. It's probably a good thing we don't have them here. But I do buy bags of Hershey Hugs (the white chocolate ones) and tell myself I will just have a couple at a time. Well, that rarely works.
I try to be good but what else do we have to comfort us? Has anyone else struggled with this and found a replacement mechanism? When I am having a pity party for myself it seems that comforting food is my best friend.
I was about 20 pounds heavier until my husband became ill and I didn't have an appetite for the first few months after he died. Now, there has been a a little too much dipping into the chocolate chips. I try to keep other stuff out of the house. A nice thing to do for myself is to have some veggies cut up and have some hummus. Sometimes, I am just thirsty and eat something fattening instead of having some water.
I watch what I eat now much more closely because I have lost around 97 lbs in the last 2 years. Mostly due to me being freaked out after Dave passed and going to work in animal rescue to occupy my time. The heavy physical activity with the dogs really knocked off my appetite. When I do need some comfort food it's either plain lays potato chips or mint chocolate anything ( cake, ice cream, peppermint patties) And guess what arrived today..my order of girl scout cookies...why Thin Mint of course. LOL
I lost 13 lbs after my husband died and then - I got serious about walking - I had gained a lot feeding him high calorie soft foods. He liked me to eat with him...and the rest is history. I need ot get serious about fats because I was bordeline for cholesterol and I convinced my dr. to let me stop the meds because they gave me leg cramps -- so I am trying very hard...
BUT I did buy a package of Mallomars for my Christmas indulgence - and what wrong with potatoes chips/crisps...potatoes are vegetables??!
It's weird because my reaction to stress used to be to not eat anything. So I should be a stick by now. But now I have gone to the opposite extreme. I too received my girl scout cookies yesterday - Yum! And I see nothing wrong with potatoes - love 'em.
