I know we have been talking about an easter mini goal. So I started a new thread to discuss it. My easter mini goal was 17lbs. I started 2 days ago and have lost a lb. so 16 to go till my easter goal also this doesn't have to be just weight goals it can be exercise, cutting out certain foods, certain amount of water. What ever goal you want for easter

Hey Irish, Switzie6 started a thread called "Easter Challenge", and a bunch of us CCers posted a goal on there...would you like to join us? Sorry, I don't know how to link to another thread yet, but it was just about half down page 1 here at the time of this post.

Cheryl

I am kind of afraid to post a weight loss goal. My body doesn't play fair, and it's discouraging when you're doing well watching what you eat and the scale doesn't show you've worked hard. I have been struggling to eat enough calories without putting myself into danger of a binge. That seems strange, but when I find myself with quite a few calories toward the end of the day, it seems I have a hard time stopping myself from overeating...I guess I'm just weaker at night!

I think my goal will be to try to eat 1300-1500 calories a day, but spread them more evenly throughout the day. I hope that will translate into a weight loss of around 10 pounds. If not...I'll be back to cry on the shoulders of this forum!

Chunkydunkin, maybe this will help. When I make lunch, I go ahead and make a double portion (which would have been one portion for me before, lol), like one chicken breast, lots of veggies, something like that. Before I eat, I cut it in half, and half is for my lunch (my biggest meal). I take the other half, and cut it in half again, and put it in containers (like gladware/tupperware), then put those in the fridge. I normally will have one of those for dinner, then another is available if I have a late-night snack attack. I find that if I have nothing prepared, then I'm more likely to overeat at night or make poorer choices, so it's easiest for me to prepare these early in the day, before I get tired and don't have as much willpower. Maybe you can do something similar? Another idea would be to cook ahead for the whole week and freeze some small portions like that. If I don't eat mine the same day, I can just pop the container in the freezer, and there's a light dinner or snack all ready for another day. They're also handy to pop in a lunch cooler and take along, if I know I'll be out shopping longer than normal, rather than braving the fast food world. You can make anything you like to eat, doesn't have to be chicken, could be a green salad or a sandwich or anything, and just portion it up so you know what the calories are. It helps me to just divide up my calories for the whole day, and just say, "okay, my tea is this much and I don't want to give that up, that leaves me 200 cals for breakfast, 400 for lunch, etc," then I just make sure that meals and snacks stay within that calorie limit every day.

HTH,
Cheryl