I'm really anxious at the moment. So much to do and so little time; the kids are back at school next week- thank god for that! I'm trying to eat in response to stomach hunger but I just need 'something' to calm me down, food isn't really helping but it's there so I keep going back to it. It doesn't help that I haven't been able to decide what I feel like eating. I spent the morning going around a supermarket with just one child, so I had plenty of opportunity to find out what i felt like eating. I was really hungry too. I felt a bit guilty at having DH take time off work to stay at home and look after the 3 others but he did go out with his mates last night while i stayed home carving pumpkins!

Actually, I'm really stressed about uniforms as well as other things. I know those of you without children will be thinking uniforms, UNIFORMS, the silly cow has definitely lost it. Let me tell you right now, when you have kids you don't have to look after/ wash/ care for the rugrats but all the paraphernalia that comes with them! Anyhow, we have two uniforms we need for a Saturday, two for a Monday and one for a Friday ( this is between two kids)- also we need enough school uniform for them both to last a week. Bearing in mind these items of clothing only have to go from washing basket to machine to clothes horse to drawers, you'd have thought it would be hard to lose anything- but you'd be wrong! Every week I find something has been misplaced and it drives me mad. Today it's the T shirt for Saturday's drama class thats disappeared- Arrrrrggggggh!

Tonight it was Halloween so lots of food available, all lying around in front of me. I was pretty good actually and managed to talk to myself a few times and ask myself if food was really what I wanted ( of course it wasn't). And now we are safely home, I have no desire to raid the kids trick or treat bags or polish off the left over sweets and I've told my DH I won't be needing dinner tonight either.

So it wasn't a hopeless day when alls said or done.
I'm re-reading 'Overcoming overeating' atm and was reading the bit about moving your hunger ledger from eating more from mouth hunger to eating more from stomach hunger. Last month I would have said I was still eating more from mouth hunger- now it's swung to more from the other. There has been progress.