Dana -- not only did you save yourself by taking a "pause", I've just read your post and it saved me -- thank you :D

I logged all my fit day today and went over what I would have liked by 200 calories and my husband just bought a bunch of junk food for tomorrow so I was so tempted to hit some of it. Thank you for your post and to everyone after --- my day is not ruined -- I still ate about 2,000 calories less than I was before I started eating better, so today is not a failure, it was a learning experience. Every once in a while I need to be reminded that even a bad day has some good qualities. And a bad day now is still probably 110% better than what a "normal" day used to be.

For me, it's important to put food in it's true perspective. For many of us, food is the best thing in the world we can think of, and the worst. We give it too much importance, and base our self-worth on whether we've been "bad" or "good," when we've really been neither.

Only in compulsive and addictive behaviors - do we "give up" and go on a bender when we fail to be perfect. In other goals we can let it go, so we need to learn to with our eating and other health goals. I mean, we wouldn't stop doing the dishes or never do laundry or clean the house again, because we'd had one day when we didn't quite accomplish everything we'd intended.