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Originally Posted by TXMary2
Thanks everyone. I am on track today and plan on doing a little exercise.
Robin, I may eventually have to take that road, but I am afraid to have "off limit" food for fear that I will obsess over them. I have done that before. I honestly believe that if I wasn't pmsing I would have been ok with the first serving I doled out for myself. Mentally I am better off right now because of the little slip - otherwise I might still be thinking about eating.
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That's the thing Mary. I tried the *moderation* route for years, decades in fact. And man, it just wasn't happening. Ask any alcoholic if it does indeed work.
As far as pmsing - well that happens once a month!! That could really put a stall in your weight loss. That yo - yo affect. Lose 4 lbs, gain 5, lose 3 gain 4. Nuh-uh. I was done being fat. For me - I feared for my life and the life of my children's mom. I couldn't take that chance any more. I was a walking time bomb.
For me, and yes we're all different, once I made them off limits, that was it. It wasn't restrictive as I always feared it would be, but it was FREEING. All of a sudden *those foods* no longer held power over me. They were no longer an option, no longer on my radar screen. I no longer had to think about them. Was it easy? Nope, it took a couple of hard weeks. But it doesn't compare to the hard of being super morbidly obese.
And yes, I gave up (very strict initially, brought them back in under controlled circumstances now that I'm in maintenance) a bunch of *those foods*, but I found much tastier, healthier, BETTER ones. AMAZING how ones tastes and desires change.
The key for me was to MAKE CERTAIN, that I had healthy DELICIOUS options ALWAYS available. Cause' then it was like, "okay, you're not eating this, but at least you get to eat THAT." And THAT is pretty darn fabulous again, once you get into it and allow your tastes to change. That's why it was very important to me to be creative and and find healthy, yet
yummy foods... And of course there's the planning. I plan out my meals and snacks when I'm rational and reasonable and have a clear head, not when my emotions take over. I've also discovered that it's okay to say no to oneself. Ha. Who would have thought that control and discipline would feel so darn wonderful??
Yes, we've all got to figure out what works best for us - and what doesn't. What works best for us and what we're WILLING to MAKE work.
Luckily, we get to change it up if we see that something isn't just right for us.