Whatcha Weigh Monday?!

I had SUCH a fun weekend. I was a liiiiitle afraid to weigh in today.

PS. The Ram restuarant has a SKINNY cocktail menu!

This is our skinny cosmo, skinny lemondrop and skinny mojito! Disclaimer: my friend drank her's fast and said, "I just had to get it over with..." hahaha. i thought mine was good :)

Needless to say I wasn't heartbroken when I woke up to like 5 inches of snow! Maybe that isn't a lot for you? but us here in the Pacific Northwest don't do well driving in the white stuff.

So. after going back to bed for a few minutes (aka I was in bed for TWELVE hours, like I said, I had a VERY fun weekend :) I whipped out my home weight watchers scale and forced myself to step on. I know that this isn't a completely accurate measure since I am weighing on a different scale but whatevs.

dun. dun. dun.

-3.1 pounds

YOU GUYS! My psychologists and everyone have been right. When you don't freak out/obsess over what you eat and just listen to your body, things will fall into place :) that being said, you should all listen to me and obey me hehehe :)

TIP OF THE WEEK:

since my insurance companies and parents have paid a lot of moola for these darn nutrition classes/appointments, I shall share some wisdom I have learned :)

OUR BRAINS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO PROCESS THE "NO" CONCEPT

What does this mean, you ask? I am SOOOO guilty of preparing to go out to Mexican with friends and repeating ALL DAY in my head, "You will not order beef enchiladas, you will not order beef enchiladas."

I get to the restaurant thinking I am all prepared and what do I blab out the second the waiter nears our table, "I'LL HAVE THE BEEF ENCHILADAS!"

This always made me SO mad ummm.. BRAIN, I have been practicing with you ALL day and what do you go and do?

My little smarty-pants psychologist was telling me about how our brain works in images/concepts.

It was thinking about the cheesy, oooeeey, goooey enchiladas all day...

Only problem? My brain wasn't able to process a NO image over that Mexican dish :)

Our brains don't process "nots."

That is also why whenever we are told NOT to mention something or think about something that's all we can do. We are trying to process the image of whatever it may be and a "not" image.

I learned that "not" image doesn't even exist. ha. :)

so instead of thinking about what you are NOT going to do, or NOT going to eat? Think about what you ARE going to enjoy! I should have been conjuring images of beef fajitas all day :)

sounds silly, but try it :)