 Hi friends welcome back to my channel and happy happy Friday. You have no idea how glad that I am that it's Friday. I'm over this week I mentioned that on my Instagram story yesterday. It's been a very long week so I am ready for the weekend. My husband and I are going to spend the entire day the entire day in our yard tomorrow pulling weeds working in the yard mowing spraying weed killer putting down weed and feed in our grass and if you didn't know or you don't watch a lot of my what I eat videos we have almost three acres of yard so it's a lot it's an all-day project and I'm still on the hunt potentially for a laptop so I was thinking that I may stop into Costco as well I'm not sure I just know that I have a lot of yard work to do but I was thinking this morning that's a good thing because it's going to give me extra activity right extra steps so I'm looking forward to that and then Sunday meal prep clean the house do the laundry get ready for the upcoming work week it's been a little crazy at my work the students at my university all graduate over Mother's Day so it's the last couple of weeks of school and I literally feel like all the employees lose their mind the last couple of weeks because I have investigations coming out my ears if you didn't know I'm a human resource manager so I do a lot of the employee relations and those types of things so it's been crazy that may be why I'm over this week potentially so let's talk a little bit about this week as far as ww so overall I had a really good week I had an honest tracking with Jen challenge going on this last week I'm considering doing it again this next week if you're interested in doing the honest tracking with Jen challenge where essentially you are committing to honestly tracking at least five days in the upcoming week good bad indifferent you are committed to honestly tracking your food you have to number one join my facebook group I'll put it right here on the screen and number two you have to use the hashtag honest tracking with Jen and post that on the facebook group for accountability for yourself as well as to be part of the group that is partaking in the honest tracking with Jen challenge so if you're interested in that comment down below let me know because I would love to do another week I felt like it kept me accountable and in fact yesterday I did a little booth in our main building on campus to recruit students and I had two cookies and I had to track those and I said dang cookies like but would I have tracked those before I don't know probably but if I mean I had to honestly track them that was the commitment that I had made so it was a great challenge so if you're interested definitely comment down below let me know that you're interested in maybe doing that again this week so overall my week of food went really well yesterday was a little bit of a challenge I ended up going one smart point over my allowed points for the day that was where those cookies came in darn cookies that's where those came into play so I'm okay with one point over other than that I had a really good week I didn't get to walk at work this week like I had planned just because it was like I said crazy I did do a lot of activity at work however and today I have an appointment on my lunch break so my goal another goal for next week is to start my walking during the work week it'll be much easier during the summer when there's no students so that shouldn't be an issue at all it's just these last couple weeks like I said have been crazy but my food overall has been great this week I stayed on track I drank my water yeah overall I feel like I had a really good week so I'm interested to see what happens when I step on the scale it is starting to become closer to shark week not quite I think next week will be the week prior and that's always a hit and miss week so I'm hoping to have some good results on the scale today so I'm gonna head in for my workshop I'll be back to share not only my weigh-in results with you but a recap on this week's topic so I will see you shortly hey guys I just got out of my ww workshop just pulled into work I have to say that this workshop topic was perfect timing per the usual from ww I get so many and I mean so many comments on my Facebook group comments on my videos direct messages about emotional eating how do you curb emotional eating and guess what that was the topic at this week's ww workshop again perfect timing I thought a lot about emotional eating during the workshop and there are several tips and tricks that ww has for you as far as how to avoid emotional eating and how to veer your emotions into a non food related result so what can you do when you're feeling emotional happy sad lonely bored you name it there's a lot of emotions that we can feel as human beings that lead to eating so I want to share with you some of the tips that ww shared in this week's weekly meeting about how to avoid using your emotions and veering them towards food versus taking those emotions and veering them towards something that won't sabotage your weight loss effort so instead of leaning towards food when we are emotional it doesn't matter the emotion we all lean towards food with different emotions some of us when we're happy some of us when we're sad some of us when we're stressed out or me personally I lean towards food when I'm bored so when I'm sitting at work just plugging away on my computer or when I'm at home watching tv the evenings is the worst for me that is why I have a eating cutoff I do not eat past 6 p.m. now there are times that I'm at work late and I may have to shift that closing the kitchen time a little bit later maybe 6 30 or 7 and that helps me with that boredom at night eating that is where I struggle so there are several tips that I want to share with you to avoid emotional eating so first one is recognize the emotion how are you feeling are you happy are you sad are you bored are you stressed out first identify that feeling and then think about other ways that you can incorporate that feeling into non-food related things such as take a walk if you're bored if you're stressed out go on a walk go outside enjoy that fresh air relieve a little bit of that stress by walking you're going to skip wanting to eat because you're busy walking that definitely works for boredom eating as well and it's a win-win because not only are you not eating but you're also getting outside and you're doing some exercise another thing call a friend pick up the phone call a friend you haven't talked to in a while take your mind off of food and spend it engaging with a friend or a family member that you haven't spoken to in a while or maybe if you are stressed out or sad share that emotion with a friend it always helps perk you up and feel a little bit better another thing you can do is look at old photos from fun adventures that you've had throughout your life trips you've taken events you've attended photos that make you happy photos of your kids photos of you and your spouse photos of your friends your pets look at those photos the things that take away wanting to eat and bring your mind to a happy place another thing you can do is watch a comedy watch a sitcom on tv that makes you laugh that takes those other negative feelings and turns them in to positive feelings watch a movie that's a comedy watch youtube videos that make you laugh or inspire you those are all things that will take your mind off of food and move it into something more productive another thing especially with spring coming and summer right around the corner go outside work in your yard plant some flowers pull some weeds get that little bit of extra activity in but also take your mind off of food so you're not emotionally eating the best advice that I can give you is take whatever emotion you're feeling good or bad and turn it into something that benefits you some sort of activity some sort of something that makes you happy or inspired and you'll be surprised that that food you were craving that chocolate those chips that cake immediately goes away because your mind is focused on something other than food so the last two tips that I want to share with you also take a moment breathe slowly use the headspace app in the w w app take a moment and just breathe go and really think about how you're feeling trust me you guys I do this on a very regular basis at work when I'm losing my mind like I sit at my desk and I close my eyes and I take a deep breath and all of a sudden I'm not so emotional I'm not so angry I'm not so frustrated and it really again takes your mind off of food and puts you in to a different mindset a more positive mindset which is exactly where we need to be and lastly another fun thing that you can do is go ahead and hop on your w w app and browse all of the fun wellness wins think about the things that you want to redeem your points for look at the next category of things give yourself some goals take your mind off of food and shift it into wellness another thing you can do is go and connect hop on my facebook group hop on youtube do things that take your mind off of food and put them into something more positive great tips to stop yourself from emotional eating and another thing you can do that's worked for me close the kitchen stop eating at a certain time brush your teeth choose some gum a lot of times when you're feeling hungry you're dehydrated you just need to drink some water and those feelings of hunger subside so those are my tips for you to avoid emotional eating and move that into something that is more productive something that is more positive and something that will make a better impact on your weight loss so now let's talk about weighing like I mentioned I had overall a really good week I had five days of honest tracking which I was super excited about and when I stepped on the scale today I lost almost an entire pound at point eight I'll take it I'm back to 21 pounds lost so I'm moving in the right direction towards my goal of hitting my 25 pounds lost by the end of May so I'm honestly thrilled with losing almost a pound especially considering I did have cookies yesterday I tracked my cookies but I had cookies cookies are the death of me sweets are the death of me so I take that as a win that I tracked those cookies and moved on and I only ended the day with one point over so again I'm thrilled with my results this week I'm happy I lost I'm right back at that 21 pounds lost about to entering another weight decade and about to hit my 25 pound goal by the end of May so I'm happy I'm thrilled it's a good day to be a WW member I also want to share with you what I discussed a little bit earlier before I went into my workshop and that is having another day of honest tracking so again if you're interested in a five plus day of honestly tracking good bad and different make sure you join my Facebook group not only for this but for fun positivity recipe ideas Vegas meetups meetups in your area just a way to meet some new WW like minded friends so I'm going to post this on my group a little bit later today and let's shoot for another five days of honest tracking who's in who's with me and before I let you go I will of course include a recipe at the end of the video here of the what the recipe on the back of the weekly looks delicious but I also want to remind you guys that today is the last day to order the banana chocolate cream built bars I love them someone at my meeting came up to me today and said how much they love the banana chocolate cream pop those bad boys in the freezer and you have a chocolate covered fair like banana delicious so make sure you hop onto built bar dot com I'm going to link my direct link to 10% off and free shipping down in the description box below and I'm going to put my discount code right here on the screen for you so take advantage of the last day of the chocolate banana cream and let's cross our fingers and toes they make that a permanent flavor but again today's the last day to order I hope that you guys have a wonderful day comment down below let me know how was your week did you gain did you lose how do you feel about the topic of emotional eating and of course are you going to join my five days of honest tracking if you're new make sure you subscribe hit that little notification bell you don't want to miss a minute of the fun exciting WW content that I upload almost every day of the week in fact in may you guys I'm uploading every single day and there are times that you may see two videos in one day so may is going to be a very exciting month so make sure you're subscribed and you're notified every time I upload give this video a thumbs up have a fabulous Friday and I'll see you guys in my next video bye