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Review Last Week: Last week was Chat #328 “Stressed? Take 5!”
Stopped in traffic. Finding out you forgot to pay a bill. Getting a call that the child you just dropped off at school threw up. Stressed now just thinking about it?
If you are alive and breathing you are under some form of stress. From the time you are born someone has stuck a bottle, a cookie, or a high caloric beverage in your mouth to ease stress when it rears its ugly head.
Tomorrow will have enough worry of its own
Even the Bible will tell you to stop worrying about the past, quit anticipating the disaster in the future.
Matthew 6:34
New International Version “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own”
Worrying about the past or stressing about what “might” happen in the future can cause more stress
Stressed spelled backwards spells Desserts
Don’t believe me? Stop for a second and check it out. It’s no wonder that when we feel stressed we are more likely to overeat.
Anchor against the storm
Here we go with the Bible verses again (hey, it’s Sunday and I’m listening to a 2 hour women’s prison ministry while I’m typing). If you are in the middle of the ocean (life) and a storm whips up out of nowhere (again, life) what do you do to keep from being sucked off course (stuck in traffic), flipped upside down (finding that unpaid bill), whirled around again (phone call from school), swallowed by a whale, spit out on shore and left for dead.
Drop.
That.
Anchor.
Today’s anchor is a 5 step breathing and focusing exercise we have discussed before on this WW journey.
- Take a deep breath and name 5 things you can see
- Take a deep breath and name 4 things you can feel
- Take a deep breath and name 3 things you can hear
- Take a deep breath and name 2 things you can smell
- Take one more deep breath and name 1 thing you can taste
How do you feel?
Your homework was #DropThatAnchor. One time this week when stress rears its ugly head do the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 session and let us know how you feel afterwards. If you want to list each item feel free! If not, just tell us how you felt before the anchor and then after. I guarantee a situation already popped in your head while we were talking. Write it down, do your homework and dropping that anchor will be a snap next time! Then type it, snap it, share it however you like, and then tag me for your next cool badge!
- Mindi did her homework by providing the easy to remember order! Eyes, nose, (rub cheek) feel, ears, mouth …. Just a visual reminder of the order but not a magic order
- You have to go check out Mary’s post on the IYHAE Facebook group. “I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worries control me.” it goes on from there…wow
- I had Alyssa practice this in case we ever need it to calm her down. She was soooo cute as she used her eyes, nose, ears, sense of touch, and mouth to give me her answers. She studied everything so hard I feel confident she was relaxed when we got done!
Bravo, you did it!
This Week’s Topic: “5 Queues to Eat More Mindfully”
Have you ever gotten to the bottom of the soggy fries in the bottom of a greasy drive thru bag and thought “why did I even eat that”?
Maybe it was because you paid for it. Maybe your favorite aunt made it just for you. Perhaps you were just busy and didn’t even notice it wasn’t that great until it was gone.
Five Q’s (Queues) that may get in the way of eating mindfully are:
- Can you See the food
- Smelling the food
- The Situation
- How does the food Sound
- Is this food Special
Three Fast Facts from WW:
Give it to Mikey, He’ll eat anything
At times we are all Mikey aren’t we? Sometimes we eat things other people would send back or push away. “Civilians” have a tendency to stop eating when something is the wrong temperature, wasn’t prepared well, isn’t what they asked for, or just doesn’t taste good. Research shows that sometimes we eat food we just really don’t like!
Simon Smells
I know, I know it’s Simon Says. But have you ever just smelled something and suddenly you know you better leave the area or there will be trouble? For that very reason I marketed peppers and onions followed by baked cookies at our fall festival for Casey’s elementary school. Even people who attended thinking they weren’t going to eat ended up buying one or the other (or both). It is a fact that just seeing or smelling a food can make you more likely to eat it.
To Grandma’s House we go
Did just saying we were headed to grandma’s house stir up any special feelings about food? WW nailed this fact, certain situations and the way you remember, think about, dream about a food can prompt you to eat.
This Week’s Homework: #MindYourQs
Your homework for this week is #MindYourQs. Identify one of the five Q’s (which actually all begin with an S but…) made you want something to eat this week and shout it out loud. How did you handle that (or will you handle it next time) and then right it down, do your homework and dropping that anchor will be a snap next time! Then type it, snap it, share it however you like, and then tag me for your next cool badge!
- Tag @ifyouhaveanegg on Instagram
- Tag @ifyouhaveanegg on our Facebook Page
- Tag @Kelly Green Milligan in our Facebook Group
- Tag @ifyouhaveanegg on WW Connect
Extra Credit: Instant Pot Vs. Air Fryer – End of Season Tomatoes
The appliance battle is back at it again! We are putting the Air Fryer and Instant Pot head to head again for “End of Season” tomatoes!
As you all know, my garden has given me an overabundance of tomatoes, and I’m still trying to use them all. But now, the tomatoes are starting to look a little gangly and not very pretty. My mom Vegan Nana always had a solution for these “end of season” tomatoes, so we will be using one of her techniques! But we need to know: is the Instant Pot or the Air Fryer way better?
In my 5 quartz insert for the Instant Pot, I inserted a few gangly tomatoes, cutting the bigger ones to match the size of the smaller ones. I also added a little spritz of olive oil, a little garlic to the top of a few of the tomatoes, and some basil, oregano, and rosemary. Finally I added about 3-4 tbsps of water. That is enough water to make these tomatoes, even though it doesn’t seem like a lot! When the tomatoes burst, they add liquid so it won’t burn. I put them on the pressure cook setting and sealed, set custom on high, and we are only cooking for TWO MINUTES.
I prepped the Air Fryer tomatoes before because I know that one by heart. But what I did for these was fairly similar. I put the tomatoes in the air fryer insert with the same added ingredients as the Instant Pot. Then I set the Air Fryer to 260 degrees for 30ish minutes.
The Air Fryer tomatoes are always delicious, but how did the Instant Pot tomatoes turn out? It was a big surprise! The Instant Pot made it taste slightly different, but they were so yummy! I added them to some of the polenta I had prepared earlier, and it was awesome!
I have to say that this one was a tie! They tasted completely different, but man… they were both delicious!!
Keep watching for more testing, playing, and recipes! I’m so excited and you should be too.
What’s your favorite way to use your Instant Pot? Comment Below!
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