The holidays are GONE and I am back!!!!

I have missed you ladies and am definitly looking forward to posting with you all again and getting back in the groove of things.

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday, and will have a wonderful new year. I'll see ya around the boards.

I am so glad its OVER
hopefully no more temptation

I am glad it is over too! It is so hard to stay on track with all the holiday temptations!

I'm sad its over cause I love this time of the year, BUT I'm glad there are no more excuses for me to eat like I did yesterday!! I didn't exercise any restraint, and unfortunately my frig is exploding with leftovers!

And boy did I treat myself! I didn't overeat but did allow myself some of whatever I would normally have eaten on a holiday.

I didn't want to get into the mindset that I was being "bad"...that just leads to condemnation and guilt. Guilt leads to bingeing and then I'd be back where I started. I just decided, "I will eat whatever I like".

I found myself making pretty good choices; not having huge helpings, not drowning everything in gravy, really only eating something if it was worth the calories. I actually threw away over half of a piece of pumpkin pie because it was gross (not homemade, frozen store bought..blech). And I limited myself to two glasses of wine instead of drinking a lot. All in all, I think it went well.

I am glad it is over though so I can get back to my "new normal" eating patterns. Too many days like that and I'd be back at 255+.

welcome back!!!

welcome back! I am glad it's over too. I had fun, and ate a lot. So looking forward to 2009!!!

I'm also glad for Christmas to be over. Now, I am already starting to work my resolution for the New Year--to simplify my life and to focus on what is importatant to me--saying no to all else.

Glad you are back--now ONWARD 3FC march!

I think everyone is glad to have the temptations of the holidays over and done with I like the season but sonetimes not the reason, to many parties etc....Anyway now we can all get back on track a little easier

I have to say I'm extremely glad the season is over (well, except for new year's, but I don't have any parties to go to this year.) It'll be nice to be on plan without any of those convenient excuses to fall off.

<waves>

Hey everyone - I'm still here just been busy with the family and such. My eating is meh - I'm not counting calories and my water intake is sucky but I'm 99% sure I'm meeting my goal of not gaining while visiting family. I'm really looking forward to getting back to normal when I get home.

I had a good talk with my sister who is a doctor and she really reaffirmed that weight loss is really about calories in vs calories out. It was cool that so many things we talk about here were things she agreed with.

Anyhow I've missed you guys but been all out of whack with the snow - I ended up driving everyone everywhere.

yay! no more pies, candy filled stockings, turkey, mashed potatoes etc etc. I handled it better than I predicted, but it will be sooo nice to have fewer temptations!

I'm glad all of that food is gone too. I switched plans for the last 4 days and tried to keep under 1800 calories, but went over a few days. I feel lousy stomach-wise and started back on my plan this afternoon.