Congratulations to everyone on their Valentine's Day Challenge successes!

WOO HOO!! WAY TO GO!

Apparently, I love to eat more than I love myself. I ended the challenge by GAINING FIVE POUNDS!!!

It's not surprising since I fell off the wagon, not in big ways, but little ways almost every day the last two weeks. I think I got really disappointed in myself and let it get into my head. And I got into sugar and couldn't get off...not lots of sugar, but enough to mess with my head and my body.

So, we'll see where I go from here. I hope it's right back on Atkins. I just want to eat everything in sight...whether I even like it or not. I just want to eat. The biggest change I made was eating flaxseed muffins every day thinking it would be a good thing. Maybe it wasn't? Anybody had a hard fall during eating one minute muffins regularly for two weeks?

I think the muffins can cause you to overeat. I'm going through something similar, I got like 5 bags of sugar-free candy and my free shipment of Atkins bars on Valentine's Day. Yesterday it took everything in me to stop myself from devouring half of it! I'm trying to limit myself to 1-2 pieces per week, but since it tastes exactly like the "real" thing it's hard to do that. Last night I put it in a box and closed it and today the cravings aren't so bad. Maybe it's because putting it in the box mentally "sealed" it off?

Maybe you should try only eating 1-2 muffins a week, like I'm doing with the sugar-free candy. You've been on Atkins for a long time and made great progress without them, so you can go without them again. Try to think of them like a treat. I try not to eat them too much either...I worry about them stalling me.

Whenever I'm faced with something like this, I try to remember what's most important to me. Sure the Atkins bars and sugar-free candy are good, but what is more important? Good food or my weight loss? Obviously if I didn't care about my weight loss I'd just be eating a lot of the real sugar candy instead of limiting myself to a few pieces of the sugar-free. If eating too much of the sugar-free candy will affect my weight loss (just like the real candy would), isn't that counterproductive? Thinking of it like that gives me the power to try limit it to a very rare treat instead of an every day indulgence. I'm still working on it. It's tough.

You can do it Sandy. The Easter challenge is your challenge! Plus, it's one of the only Atkins friendly holidays (boiled eggs)! :lol:

Thank you, Linsy, for the encouragement. I'm trying hard to dust myself off and get it again. You're probably right about the flaxseed muffins; I don't love them, but they're so handy and they keep things moving along nicely. I hate to give that up. But if they're intensifying or triggering cravings, I have to do without for sure.

I didn't quite meet my goal, but I still love myself :lol: Congrats to everyone who did!