I don't know what it IS with me today!! I usually go through my day kind of knowing what I'm going to eat and at what time but today all I could think about was FOOD! and FOOD. and MORE FOOD! It seemed like every time I got up I was walking in the kitchen and totally eating everything in sight. I had breakfast, lunch, dinner, a snack, another snack, ANOTHER snack... and I just finished a snack this minute. What the ****?

But the kicker is that I wrote all of it down. I guess subconsciously if I was going to eat the day away I was going to know the damage. And yes I ate some junk- but I would say 75% of what I had today was stuff I would eat anyway...generally healthy with some crap mixed in. Just a skinny cow here, a single serve bag of popchips there... it just sucked that i wanted to eat. All. Day. Long. And when I just added ALLLLL my food for today- I was at 1600 cals.

ok REALLY what the ****. I have been obsessing and craving and killing myself over food all day long and I only went over 200 measly calories????

today was a weird day....

Maybe your body is hungry?! lol

When I am that hungry, usually a big bowl of Kashi cereal will stave off my hunger for quite a few hours. I bet tomorrow will be ten times better. Every day is such a struggle. When I wasn't watching what I ate for the holidays though, I actually sort of missed counting calories and my workouts. I love having being in control to look forward to every day. I really feel like I have accomplished something by not eating cake by the handfuls.

By the way, how have you lost all the weight?

I am having the same kind of day. Lol! I'm trying not to act on it though. I ended up delving into my weekly points allowance on WW, which I didn't want to do. But at least I stayed OP! I wouldn't worry about the extra 200 calories. Like someone said, you probably needed it!

Corazona, you have the most beautiful profile picture. Hope you don't feel so hungry today but it sounds like you're pretty in control anyway. Good luck.

**update

i feel MUCH better today! i think i wasn't hungry that it was rainy and i was bored and... well, you know the story. i get plenty of nutrition so i just chalked it up to "one of those days"

i wrote myself a nice little 'kick in the butt-get moving' sticky note and put it where i can see it. also planned out my EXACT menu for the whole day and will be eating only that. i don't know if i would even consider yesterday a slip- like i said just one of those days....

thanks surfer chick! and thanks everybody else for the input... i'm so strange sometimes... haha aren't we all though??

I get that way ALL the time. where I eat because I have nothing else better to do, and I let my mind believe that Im hungry when really Im not.
Its getting better tho. lol.
and I have to agree, you are very pretty!

When I was a freshman, my Intro to Psych professor told me that she had dropped a ton of weight. She let me in on HALT - eating out of hunger, anger, loneliness, or being tired. I tack boredom on there, too... although "HALT-B" doesn't have the same ring to it.... But I do tend to eat more when I'm bored...and then I just feel bloated, and still bored!

aw thanks mickey!

everybody is so nice around here!!

(and to be honest, 20lbs isn't a ton of weight but i FEEL really pretty)

drink a milkshake with lots of protein.