Just an Author Trying to Get Healthy in a Fast Food World

I am pretty sure that I threw my back out yesterday. I don't know what I could've done. Except, I just started while I was walking (I get my steps while watching television) I was taking larger steps, working harder and raising my heart rate in the process. Maybe that's what did it, I dunno...but I can't do much of anything at the moment. So my plan to start exercising more has hit a snag today. Sadly. I'm hoping I can take care of this on my own. I used to have a chiropractor but he has since stopped practicing. Here's hoping I feel better tomorrow or the next day. Trying to eat right. Funny how hard that is to do when you aren't feeling well. Feeling bad has me wanting comfort foods...which is never good. (I love bread and salty snacks...) I just forced myself to eat carrots and PB since I was snacky. At least I avoided the comfort foods, lol. Now to keep it up for the rest of the day, gah! I better just count those calories closely and stay within my numb...

Hope you all are doing well, but how are you coping with trying to stay home? I had a really bad food week. I realized why I don't "stock up" on food like I used to before I adopted trying to eat healthy. My freezer was always full of boxed frozen items (chicken nuggets, waffles, pierogies, steakums, etc), and the panty boxed processed crap (mashed potatoes, stuffing, cookies). Well, we stopped buying a lot of that. A normal shopping trip now is us buying fresh ground meat and chicken breasts, fresh veggies and fruit, frozen broccoli and cauliflower (nothing with sauce on it). What I have in my freezer and panty now makes me anxious and I don't like it. SO MANY CARBS. Ugh... I just can't. And the stress has me buying a few pieces of chocolate and treats that I wouldn't normally. I was so scared to step on the scale this morning, because pandemic or no pandemic, it is still Friday, and Friday is weigh in day. I didn't gain a single pound from last w...