Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Day 17: A Nightly Ritual With a Cup of Tea .... or Maybe Wine

In trying to curb my late night eating I have thought long and hard about starting a night time tea drinking ritual to calm down.  I am mainly a stress eater so I figure anything that can bring the stress level down can help with the extra eating.
I'm not sure if it's the extra time it takes to boil the water or the mental block because a cup of tea is just not that exciting or if I'm just too lazy, but I have not been able to even start the habit until tonight.
Much easier and more exciting is a nightly glass of wine ritual.  In my researching Diabetes, I came across a study that said that one glass of wine a day has benefits for the heart and MAY lower blood sugar.  Well I jumped on that bandwagon real quick!  Pouring a glass of wine is so much easier than making a cup of tea! 
But to keep myself to one glass of wine I've started following it with a cup of tea.  Yes, I am starting my tea ritual as a way of stopping myself from drinking too much wine. Whatever works!   I will say this is... it does help with defining an eating cut off time so I stop stuffing my face at night....
Baby Steps 🙊🙈

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