Hi everyone!
Welcome geoblewis! Thanks for the info, will check out the site. I haven't heard of that plan either. IE gets into your head, too. (Tho mine seems to be a steel trap at the moment. lol)
Pattygirl, I think you're right, we are at the same stage in this process. I have been gaining, too. I got on the scale the other day and while I wasn't surprised to see the darn thing go up, it was still a shocker to the old diet mentality. The same panic you mention set in and I was like "I've got to do something about this! Now!" And immediately my mind started to search for ways to control the situation
without going on a diet. I started reaching into all of my diet knowledge stored away in the diet encyclopedia head of mine ... cut out certain foods, eat half of what I would normally eat, get 15 minutes of exercise for each time I eat. Blah! Blah! Blah! And I'm still sitting here trying to figure out how to get a handle on this. My weight has swung within about 13 pounds in both directions since I joined 3FC. I'm on the up end of that 13 pounds right now.
And on that note, yes,
Carol, it does bother me that I'm not losing this weight at a faster pace ... at
any pace for that matter! I think my "revelation" the other day was a short-lived one.
Oh, as far as what food one can't have in the house, I'm still stuck here, too. After my Ah-Ha moment I went out and bought some favorites of mine, Cheeze-Its, potato chips, butter snaps pretzels and some fresh cruler donuts. Ask me if they are still in the house. There's probably about one handful of Cheeze-Its and the same amount of potato chip crumbs left. The pretzels and donuts are gone. Now I did have a little help with all those, but it was mostly me eating it all. Anything with flour or a crunch to it is a major hurdle for me. I thought I could handle all of that in the house after the light bulb went on but, and can you believe this, I still caught myself thinking about the donuts "better enjoy them, who knows when you'll get those again." I gave myself permission to eat and that's exactly what I did. Funny, I did that earlier on with some other favorites and they didn't have that impact on me. But this time it was like "Eat like there's no tomorrow!"
And I'm still sitting here wondering what I can do to fix this!
Carol, wouldn't it be interesting to see Woman's World's profits? Diets sell, that's a cold hard fact! A fact that they've cashed in on!
Have a great one!