Late Nights at the Office

It's been one of those weeks at the office!  You know the kind...you get into the office at 8 am and all hell breaks loose and you have to stay until 9:30 at night to get caught up.  That's happened TWICE this week.  All the issues are ones outside of my control, too!  Very strange...  In either case, as I've mentioned before I am totally a stress eater.  You may remember my post about eating an entire package of Little Caesars bread sticks on a late work night a few weeks ago.  Last night I was so very tempted to just eat away my stress.  I had some delicious food in the work fridge that a vendor had given me that would've totally satisfied my food cravings.  It also probably had somewhere around 1000+ calories in it.

Om nom nom...

Guess what?

I didn't eat it.  I managed to work till 9:30 without eating any crap food, which at my work place is a miracle!  Within my room I have easy access to Triscuits, cookies, assorted nuts, fruit roll ups, laffy taffy, M&Ms, Reese's, Almond Joys, Gummy Worms, Sour Patch Kids, etc.  The list is never-ending.

This is pretty much what several of our cabinets look like at work...

I was alone in the office and could've chowed down without shame, but I didn't.  I'm so proud that I was able to resist!  I worked through my stress by getting my inbox down to a reasonable level, rather than trying to eat it.  That's a much better solution!

On a different note, I am experiencing a rather frustrating thing.  I've been REALLY good with calories this week and with exercise (yay!).  In fact, if I were to pick a week where I felt that I had been the most diligent with following the lifestyle it would be this week.  However, the scale is not budging.  I'm not sure what is going on.  I'm going to  take my measurements tomorrow and see if those aren't moving either.  I'm hoping that it's just added muscle weight rather than no progress.  Any idea why the scale might not be moving?  For right now I am not letting it bother me too much, but I do hope that I can see signs of improvement for this week whether it's through inches lost or pounds gone.

I'm looking forward to seeing the results of the No Numbers Challenge for many of my blogger friends next week.  I can't believe it has been a month!  I truly see the value of ignoring the scale, especially considering how frustrated it can make us (see above!).  No matter what the numbers show next week, know that I am super impressed with your work and enthusiasm.  Great job!