So.... I don't believe in "confessions" because I no longer believe in "good foods" , "bad foods" or being punitive with myself. That's a HUGE paradigm shift from 100 pounds ago.

Now, I try to make good choices. That includes dessert - but really only if it's chocolate. It just isn't worth it to me calorie wise otherwise. I'm not a salt person at all, so chips and stuff like that doesn't tempt me.

I split a peice of chocolate cake at a restaurant last night. The night before I split a dessert with two other people at girls night out, and I had two martinis.

I don't see these things as bad, or as sabotaging anymore. I simply see desserts as part of my 90% healthy eating lifestyle, and plan for them with the rest of my meals and exercise accordingly. It's all about portions for me, and making sure that I'm eating it because I want to be eating it, I've thought about it, and it fits into my plan and not to fill some sort of emotional need that can be met elsewhere.

It's a much healthier emotional attitude all the way around for me, and I've been successful at it!

I also try to balance calories weekly as opposed to daily. So; I may have a day where I do two protein shakes and then fish and roasted veggies for dinner, and then one day where I'm eating out and have dessert. I've found that it equals out in the end.

Now that I'm happy with how I look, a nd am told all the time how pretty I am (YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!) I'm not in any big hurry to register a certain number of pounds lost in a week/month.

I'm committed to continue eating this way for the rest of my life (what a concept - Gosh did that take me a long time to internalize) Since my body is still losing weight with how I'm eating, I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing. Wherever my body chooses to stop losing - here - in five pounds - in ten/twenty that's what I'll maintain.

I'm always so proud of myself when I make good decisions!

So this is an antisocial confession: I still can't believe I chose to do this:

Last night we were at an event, and there was this huge buffet, and I asked if I could order off the menu (read: a quantity of food that does, indeed run out!!!) and they said no. Well; screw them. So my best friend, boyfriend and I left the group and got a table instead. Then, I was able to have a salad, have some protein in the form of tilapia (way better than the fettucine alfredo that was being offered) and have the dessert that I wanted. The truth is, I would have eaten that stuff on the buffet had I been a part of it - I honestly can't control the food once it's there. So I've found the key for m e is in controlling my enviornment.

Be kind to yourselves!! Two cookies does not destroy your progress. Each decision you make either moves you forward, keeps you in the same place, or reverses your progress. Strive to have most of your decisions move you forward!


Hard and fast rule: I don't bring any negative food choices into my home. For anyone. At anytime. Regardless of who makes it or sends it. I trash everything before it even makes it through the front door if people insist on sending me home with it. That also means I never bring home doggie bags from anyplace either.

Actually I think that rule helps keep me on track more than anything else =)

Yuppiegirl~you made a good decision. One that was right for you. Your confession could have been that you overindulged in the buffet! WTG!

I think a lot of us view this confession area as a place to unload. Like we plan and plan and plan and suddenly we're thrown for a loop and our plans go down the drain. Then we have to confess. As for chocolate, it is often part of my daily plan, too! (I think a lot of us plan in certain treats so we don't feel deprived.)

Believe me when I tell you th at that buffet at that particular italian restaurant should have had strobe lights in orange on it with a man in front of the line holding a "DANGER PROCEED WITH CAUTION" sign.

:cb:

:rofl: :sumo: :rofl:

Shouldn't all buffets be labeled as such?

I'm with you. I figure that from a health standpoint, coffee beats a brownie any day.

There was an article in Cooking Light this month (March 2007) that said that caffeine and coffee are not as bad for you as we've all been led to believe. According to the article, caffeine is not dehydrating or a diurectic. Coffee just makes people have to pee more because they drink a lot of it. Caffeine may even help prevent Parkinson Disease in addition the benefits we're all already aware of (i.e., makes people more alert and in a better mood, controls headaches, increases brainpower, and improves athletic performance). In studies, people consuming caffeine scored better on tests and responded better to persuasive arguments. Coffee, whether caffeinated or regular, may protect against heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Coffee is a rich source of chlorogenic acid, an antioxident believed to lower blood sugar by modulating the release of glucose form the liver.

So I plan on continuing to drink my coffee and I think I may have this article laminated for future reference.

:coffee2: :cofdate: :coffee:

Me too Chinese buffet for lunch, pizza for supper, Dairy Queen for dessert ... oh and left over pizza while talking on the phone late.

Oh well. Serves me right for having to post on this thread - there I was, sashaying along in my own eating clean smugness when I was hit over the head by a packet of biscuits which somehow then fell into my mouth. All of them. I feel like total cr*p today - I suppose that would be the sugar.

Now then, have to query really why I had the cookies in the house in the first place. New mantra - Sugar is the devil, sugar is the devil, sugar is the devil. Probably won't see 149 this week which I was desperate to do. Hey ho, onto the elliptical it is.

bad girl...
 

I am soooooo tired of salads! My confession is that I nearly fell into my previous routine of vastly restricting my calories instead of eating healthy to lose weight. By lunch, I caught myself and started being mindful of what I ate.

Darn! I've been good all month and now I have to post to this forum because last night I had too many glasses of wine and ended up eating a piece of calorie laiden carrot cake.

Well I decided I needed a treat last night and I wouldn't feel bad about it. And it's just that I do kinda feel a little bad. I had a strawberry blizzard from dairy queen...it was so good though. I won't let it get/bring me down...still pushing forward and it's a new week.

Let's see, creme brulee and a Kahulah and cream for dessert on Friday. A brownie at lunch Saturday and French fries on Saturday night. No birthday cake yet.....doubt I'll be getting one!

Am spending a week with a pal in Washington, DC, and m diet has pretty much gone out the window beyond the galaxies. For the first part of the week, I did pretty good with what I ate, but in the latter part, I just started drinking sodas, eating rich desserts, you name it. And this is all despite the fact that I must have walked miles this week going around to museums and the like. My pants are getting tighter now...sighs...back onto the treadmill I go....

I had been really bad this week; tuesday I had 3 slices of pizza, very thin crust and mostly veggies in it, but still, I felt sick the hole night. Friday I went for a carl's jr chicken sandwich, I didn't eat the fries or soda though... and yesterday I had beef paddy in a bun with some barbeque sauce, and to top it off had 9 kisses. ugh.... at least i have walked everyday this week and acording to fit day have managed to keep my calories under 1400 we'll see what the scale has to say on wednesday...

I was fairly terrible all weekend, as we were spending the weekend with the in-laws and constantly going to dinner, picking up breakfast, etc.

I don't even want to list my indiscretions, though I will say I enjoyed it all and tried not to beat myself up too much!!

I'm getting back on track starting NOW.

The confession is that I'm not going to go to the gym today because I have a paper due in three hours and it's not done yet!! And I have a dentist appt. and play rehearsal and the day is just too busy for the gym. I am upset about it but it's my fault for putting off this paper ...
Ughhh I need to get cracking, if I finish in time maybe I can go for a jog outside and get some air. That would make me feel better about today.

Okay, I wasn't going to write this down because since it was my treat meal I wasn't going to feel guilty about it, but it was over the top, so...

Friday for lunch I had:
-Big Bacon Classic burger from Wendy's
-Medium fries
-1/3 medium coke
-2 chocolate chip cookies from Tim Horton's
-Large double cream, double sugar coffee from Tim Horton's

And I enjoyed every bite. Maybe too much.

Okay here is my confession....

After a fun fun fun night out with the girls on Friday night- way to much drinking involed I had a Quarter Pounder w/cheese!!!!!!! from McDonalds-I just love them. But, I did have just that and water!!!!!!

Gosh! that felt good to get out!!!!!:smug:

Well here it goes....my first confession...although had I know about this place I'd have had many. It all started last Wednesday...I had been doing GREAT and then I crashed....can't exactly remember what I ate Wednesday afternoon...but basically everything that I didn't want to eat...fruit roll-ups, granola bars...everything. Then...

Thursday: Tim Hortons, french vanilla smoothie and 3 mini-cinnamon rolls, follwed by a trip to a cheese factory...and then to the Hershey Chocolate Factory...where I loaded up on $40 worth of bad stuff...and proceeded to eat it all weekend long.

Friday:...more of the bad stuff...enough that I didn't eat supper but continued to gorge.

Saturday night we had pizza and fried chicken...which I ate again on Sunday.

...now today is Monday and back into the LIGHT....my lack of water and poor habits caused a gain of 6.6 lbs since Thursday morning...back on track today and hopefully for the remainder of the week.

Thanks for this thread.

Lou

Confession: I haven't worked out in a week!

Here's what I've been eating lately: a loaf of bread and several slices of cheese, macaroni and cheese, crab cake, chocolate eclairs... and the list goes on. I haven't been eating ANY vegetables except for potatoes fried in oil. Sigh. Gotta get back on track starting tomorrow.

Three white flour tortillas with grated full fat cheddar cheese ... microwaved until they were melted and gooey. I think some changes at work are bothering me more than I'd anticipated.

Two margaritas and too many chips with salsa. The dinner was OP--6 jumbo shrimp in adobo sauce (over spinach fettucini which I ate sparingly) and about 2-3 cups of steamed vegetables. Oh, yummy!

Just ate a cup of rasberries and a cookie with rasberry jam filling.
SOOO GOOD.

That's the worst I've been in the past three days ... so maybe it will be okay ... I'm just worried, because I only just moved my ticker down to 115 today, and I don't want to spin out of control and have to move it up again.

Augh.

I didn't stop at my 1 glass of wine last night.......gained a pound from that.

Ugh.

This entire week has been bad news. Bad food. No exercise. So I think it's going to be like that until Sunday, since my brother is visiting.

I plan to just try and not overeat on the bad food. To eat until I am full, that's my goal.

We must belong to the same club :cheers:

Yes, I have noticed this in the past!!!

Is there a club meeting tonight? I had one... :cheers:... I should have a capital "L" on my forehead...

Last night was pretty much pathological. It's no bloody wonder I'm wide awake at 3!

You want confessions? Here's a confession!

Breakfast - 10am, feeling sick from running the night before
musli with apple and soya milk
one chocolate

Lunch
chicken bites
yoghurt, pecans and cranberries
a bar of nougat
half a danish pastry
3 chocolates

Snack
banana
2 ryvitas

@ home
blackberry tart snack cake thing & tea in bath

tea
scrambled eggs (3) on a whole wheat bun
1/4 tub of chocolate and ginger ice cream
bite of chocolate biscuit (it tasted rank so I threw the rest out)
kettle chips
blackcurrant tart snack cake
2 slices soreen malt loaf with butter
ginger oatcake biscuit

(fortunately there wasn't much food in the house....)

Oh yeah, and I didn't go to the gym or kickboxing because I was so tired, which is why I did this. That and DH wasn't home, not that it's his fault, but I do tend to eat a lot in secret "because I can!" I am one screwed up crazy chick :crazy:

Ate nachos last night because my friends ordered them and they were there. I wasn't even hungry and they weren't even good ... but I had so many ...
Ughhhh. Gross. I wish I had only eaten one.

Gym today, though.

Talk about "L"!!! My 1 glass actually turned into 3 last night! I shouldn't have stopped at the grocery store after work.......

Allison, funny you should say that... I had half a bottle with hubby and then had some cashews :faint: ... I went for a long run this morning trying to compensate for that :rolleyes:

I was actually good. I haven't gotten into the nuts (cashews are my favorite!!) for a few days now. Instead, it was cheese. I was making chicken enchiladas for dinner and somehow that grated Monterey Jack cheese kept sneaking into my mouth!!!

I haven't cheated yet but my son has some Krispy Kreme Donuts in the pantry that are kinda killing me. He's a rail so he can eat whatever he wants. The other day I had to cover them up with a dish rag so that I didn't see them everytime I went into the pantry....:dizzy:

Auuughh today was terrible and yet so very very delicious.
Breakfast and lunch were fine, but ... dinner was fish and chips, then I had some grapes, four chocolate-covered strawberries, two cookies, and about 6 oz. of whole milk.

Mmmm ... how could I resist such wonderful party food? Hopefully my being good for the rest of the day will save me.

chips
cashews
chinese food
martinis
:faint:

Putting my walnuts and almonds in little individual baggies did not work.

Geez all I do lately is confess - never seems to be to report a scale victory.

We're putting the floor down in our kitchen - it is backbreaking labour.

So I had.....Pizza
Chinese food
Wine

I feel and look huge today - yikes.
Won't have a kitchen for another 2 weeks - wish me luck on staying OP

-S

Pizza for dinner.