The best thing that you can do for yourself is to step back and breathe for a second. You need to let it go. As long as you feel guilty, you will continue to feed that emotion. Last night was only a 200 calorie blip, but looked what it turned into! When we don't stay OP, the best thing that we can do is forgive ourselves, we are all human and we are NOT perfect. The next thing is we move on and put it behind us! Don't beat yourself up, learn from it and let it go!! And know that we all go through this at some point!

I'm a huge fan of Dr. Melina Jampolis (partially because I've gone to hear her speak at Elephant Pharmacy a couple of times and I really liked what she had to say). She is known as FitTV's "Diet Doctor"...anyway... She has a list of basic weightloss principles in her book ("The No Time to Lose Diet") and one of those is: "Ditch the all-or-nothing mentality." In her most recent talk I attended, Dr. Jampolis mentioned she had met Dr. Oz earlier in the day, and he asked her what she felt was the one most important bit of advice that she gives to her weight loss patients, and she told him it was to "ditch the all-or-nothing" attitude.

Reading a couple of posts here from people who are upset with what they ate last night or yesterday, it reminded me of that saying. So when I have an off meal or an off day, I get back on track as soon as I can and remind myself that it's not "all-or-nothing"...it's do the best we can as often as possible. So don't beat yourself up, just get back on track and carry on because NONE of us are going to be 100% perfect with what we eat or our exercising, etc.

So do you go at night, then? Do you work, too? Math after working all day wpuld be like --->

Someone is giving me FREE Duran Duran tix plus FREE tix in the best buffet in San Diego (Valley View Casino). Ordinarily, this would make me want to flip out and binge or make me avoid the buffet entirely because it's too hard to "point" all of the foods on WW. Now, I'm just going to eat a salad first and not totally gorge myself with the rest. My new mantra is, "It's *just* food". Hopefully, the scale will still show a loss tomorrow, but if not, this is life. At least I will be OP!

Edit: I'm not on WW anymore - I do Weigh Down

afternoon team!


I am on my way over to check out the artichoke thread - I would LOVE to try them!

Finished Final #2 last night...it was for Accounting. 1 more final to go for History and I'll be done for the semester! Halfway through my final (it was online.... and timed, so once you hit the "take test" button, the clock began) - tornado sirens started going off. I was more mad that my final was being interrupted. So, I turned the computer off, hoping that would stop the timer. It didn't. We didn't have to take cover, the storm didn't come through this neighborhood - so I was able to finish my final with about 10 minutes to spare before the timer ran out. Typical Oklahoma!

Any of you ladies doing anything special for Mothers Day? Any of you men doing anything special for the ladies in your life on Mothers Day?

Have a great day!

Cheree - Thanks for the reminder of kickin the all or nothing metality to the curb. Just take it one day at a time!

Irish fairy - Pick yourself back up and get right back on the horse!! As has been said before - we all have our slip ups occassionally. We have to forgive ourselves and go forward. I know you can do it. I am the queen of self torture when I go off plan so if I can learn not to beat myself up quite as badly as I have in the past, I know you can. I still beat myself up but just not to the degree as I have before. I'm still learning this whole forgiveness thing and go forward. Baby steps I suppose.

hey guys! Just checking in... i had an Off Plan day yesterday so i am cutting my calories by like 56/day to make up for it for the rest of the week... i also did 40 mins on the treadmill today.... that was 4:45 of running this time... it's AWESOME! i can't believe i'm running now... i NEVER thought i'd be able to run

hope everyone is doing well!!! *hugs* to you all

Julz: I would have been FREAKING OUT if that were me. I know you are relieved you got that taken care of. Good luck with final #2.


Well, I did pretty good today. No eating off plan, healthy snack, healthy meals, enough water, exercised, everything was good. Here's to a good tomorrow, too!

I'm back in town and recovering from helping a friend do some major spring cleaning and redecorating. I'm struggling big time food wise. I need to get a grip. I'm sorry I'm letting you guys down on that front. I did start exercising again today thank goodness. Don't get me wrong, this weekend was a big workout considering we worked from morning till night. If my eating would have been better it would have made a difference poundage wise I'm sure.

Oh well, I can't go back, only forward. I tried to catch up on posting in the workout challenges. I'll try to check out the healthy eating thread tomorrow.

Have a great day everybody.

Amen to that! =) That's a great mind set...which I just started adopting that mindset this week. I'm very hard on myself and well...whenever I either didn't lose at least 1 lb or was bad at eating, I'd get mad at myself, get depressed, and all. But OH WELL, I'm doing this for long run and I can't keep doing that to myself, you know? We can't go back, only forward. And in a year or two, we will be all looking back and smile. =)

Morning Girls! Sorry I haven't posted this week been soooo busy at work and having some personal issues at home. I have worked out all week but eating hasn't been very good. Pretty much I have been eating what I want because I am such an emotional eater.

I walked every night for an hour though so I am hoping that balanced out all the junk I ate this week.

Hope everyone else had a great week.

Hello ladies, just checking with you all as my weekend starts. Fridays and Saturdays seem to be really hard for me foodwise, because my schedule differs so much from a work day. But I'm working on planning out my weekend food.

Also, this week I've started trying to work out 45 minutes a day instead of 30, but I'm listening to my body. Sometimes it's done at 30, sometimes it can go for an hour. In addition, I've decided to try jogging. This is really hard for me - yesterday I made it around the block, jogging for 8 seconds or so and then walking until I "recovered". I'm going to keep at it, because I know it's something I need to train myself to do.

I hope you all have lovely weekends!

I LOVE this! Amen and amen to that! That's a great attitude to have about it. I once heard the quote "you don't drown by falling in the water - you drown by staying there" and I loved that.

Thanks for the good luck! I think I was just more frustrated cause this stupid mean evil tornado was threatening to mess up my final that I worked so hard studying for...lol (which I found out I got a 90% on to you mr. tornado). I got a 92% on my first final in math. So, I have one more final to take either today or tormorrow for history and I'll be done for the semster!

Hey Black Team!

Sorry, I'm trying to keep up, but I'm usually so exhausted by the time I get home in the evenings, I don't want to turn my computer back on.

I'm down 2 more pounds. I'm sort of disappointed. I know it's great, but I want MORE, which is really sad. Since I've started, I've averaged almost 2 pounds per week---and that's exactly where I should be. I know I didn't put the weight on in a month, but I sure would like to lose it in a month!

I've been good staying on plan & exercising. This weekend will be really busy. I'm going to a crawfish boil tomorrow & then I'm driving to my parents on Sunday for Mother's Day. I'm hoping to stay on plan as much as possible this weekend.

Have a great weekend & Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!!!