I've been off the wagon the last few days and have totally and consciously sabotaged myself! What's with that? I'm eating the LA lites like they're chocolate bars - having three and four a day (ummm can you say extra calories????). I haven't weighed or measured in at least four days, haven't gone to the COD to get weighed in since Friday, ate chips/nachos and a bag of cheesies.....

WHAT is going on with me and can someone get Pearl to kick me in the hiney???

On a positive note, I did journal this morning and have been perfectly on track thus far. It is only 10:30 a.m. though .... I want to get one good day under my belt!

Hi Sandy - I think that most of us have experienced this at one time or another, so you are not alone!

And, really - You ARE NOT ALONE! Just remember that! I find that once I get off track, the self loathing that comes with it actually keeps me from getting back on track. It is such a vicious circle. Change your routine to break that circle!

The fact that you have taken the time to do your journal is a good sign. If you save your journals, read through them and see what foods you were eating when you lost the 26 lbs, and then do a menu for the rest of the week. If you don't have to put much thought into preparing your meals, maybe you will be able to stay on plan. When I actually write down my menu for the week, I realize how much food I actually get to eat, I don't feel all that deprived anymore.

PEARL REPORTING FOR DUTY!!!!


Actually it sounds like you're doing enough butt-kicking already! Today is a new day. You took a wrong turn, maybe even several (along with many of us!!!) and this morning you realized you were off your course. So you did that legal YOU-turn and now you're back on course - aiming toward your finish line of achieving your goal. Well done!!! Now that you know what your detour sign was... watch for it and when it starts to show up on the horizon, that's when you need to take a rest stop. Take a walk, come out here to 3FC, take 5 min. and do something nice for someone else like mail a card, make a phone call, write your Sugar a love note, write your child a note telling him/her how proud you are of them. Take a bubble bath, do your nails, but whatever you do - get out of the kitchen and away from the temptation!
Once you get your mind on something else or someone else, the temptation will pass.
As for the lites, I know I could eat a whole box of the caramel delux, but I limit myself to one/day. Sometimes I cut it up into small pieces and "snack" on it instead of eating it in 5 min.
If you STILL want something after that rest break - get back in the driver's seat of YOUR destiny to be thinner and healthier and reach for some carrots, celery, an apple, orange, or even a rice cake. REWARD yourself with something HEALTHY for your body because that really is the kind of reward you deserve! Not the junk - not the calories - not the stuff that makes you kick yourself in the morning. YOU DESERVE THE GOOD STUFF!!!

Now, with all that said - take yourself back to why you did this in the first place! You deserve to be the heatlhiest you can be. Your loved ones deserve to have the healthiest you that you can be. Step up to the plate girlfriend! This is YOUR year! You can do it!! You deserve this!!!

I knew Pearl would come through!

Thank you!!!! You are all right - I need to remember why I am doing this. It's now almost one p.m. and I'm still on track!! Tonight I have to be at the gym for a session with my personal fitness coach so that should take care of my night time snacking time .... one day at a time and remember why I am doing this. I can do this!!!

You folks are awesome!!!

Sandy -- I'm right there with you

I was 85% good (i know, not 100%) last week, went to weigh in expecting at least 1lb loss -- and gained 2.5 -- THERE IS NO WAY I ATE 7000 extra calories!!!

I still have to call and get results of thyroid, but dr's policy is they only call if something is wrong -- if it came back fine, they wouldnt notify you (too many patients I guess).

Of course that started a week long effort of not making good choices. I even tried to do TO again, but never had the juice last night.

I'm thinking of taking a break from the center and just continue with my gym routine and making good healhty choices .. . Its sooo fustrating!!!!

I hope you find your way back .. . hang tight (I too fell off wagon, butmine was with WW 1 point small cakes; I ate the whole box -- my my ... but that was not 7000 calories!!!

Hi Sandy,
I will second what the others have said - you are definately not alone. i think we have all been through this at one point or another. Personally, I think that once you break that vicious cycle, you will be stronger and more dedicated to following through because you have now proven to yourself that you CAN do it! Keep your chin up, and keep on plugging along.

Sandy,
I really understand how you feel, and congrats to you for staying on plan today. It's not a couple days or weeks that make the long run bad, it's months and years of not taking care of ourselves. It really does take a long time to do significant damage. When I am at the grocery store "Cheetos" call my name outloud as I walk by, most of the time I can resist, sometimes I don't. We are human, and we're gonna make mistakes. Most of the time it's because something else is going on and unfortunately food offers comfort to some of us. I try to find other comforting things when that happens, but I don't always succeed. A little prayer always helps me. But sounds like you really are committed to get back on. You're right about one day at a time. Sometimes when I am really struggling, I go "one meal at a time". Then I don't get overwhelmed. You can do it!! Hang in there!!

This sounds really stupid, but when I am having one of those really rough times, I tell myself that just for the next 20 minutes, I am not going to eat anything. I keep doing that in really small increments until it passes, or I am of sane enough mind to make a healthy choice and be satisfied with it.

Cassi- On that note, I"m having a chocolate craving and going to make the brownie cupcake recipe you posted!!!

Oh the cheetohs call! My husband roared at me one day when I truly did a Homer Simpson in the cheesies aisle......I said "mmmmmmmmmm cheeeeezies" and was almost drooling! hehehe

Lori - Good luck. I posted them awhile ago for someone. Let me know how they come out. (And no licking the spoon!)

Cassi- Girl, you know me....the spoon is my friend!!!! I'll let you know how it goes!!!!!!!!!!!

Sandi - I'm glad I'm not the only one that talks to the Cheeto aisle. Mostly I try to avoid it, but sometimes there's something in that dang aisle that I need! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Lori

Lori, they are delicious! Even my boyfriend loved them.