Stress eating

If there is one thing I want right now is to be able to exercise patience, resilience and reduce impulsivity.

Like today, I was having a flu and I have lost my sense of taste and smell. But I continued to munch on food anyway. I told myself I was going to have porridge. But I went ahead and ordered fries. Why did I order fries?

In my head, the warm crispy slim fries taste good. I remember when McD's fries tasted good, crispy and salty. They don't make them like this anymore.

So anyway, of course the fries I ordered was not what I remembered it used to be. As I drove back home, I asked myself why I ordered the fries. I did so while munching on the fries. I arrived home and proceeded to finish the fries and had my porridge right then and there in the car.

I was savouring my me-time. Taking care of my son and managing the home had taken a toll on me and the body could hold on no longer. The last time I was this ill was the first covid flu that I had caught and that was terrible.

Was I stress eating then? Quite likely. Although last month when I was home-bound to my son, I was so stressed that I did not eat much and lost weight.