When you're committed, when you're in control, when you're doing what you know is best for your body, when you're making real ground towards a real goal...when you're LOSING, doesn't it just feel so
great?? Doesn't it feel wonderful waking up refreshed and motivated instead of bloated, downhearted and guilty because you were off-plan the day(s) before? Let's burn those great feelings into our brain and use them when we need them. The cliches ARE true ("nothing tastes as good as being thin feels"). When you're tempted, tired, bored (whatever your trigger) embrace the memory of those incredible feelings and use it to combat the desire to overeat.
Anagram is so right. Use the start of a new week as a new start to recapture the glory. The situations that caused the slips and the weight gained during them ARE in the past so forget about them (as Apryl says "you can't uneat what you ate" - just let it go and move on towards what you REALLY want).
After Christmas I started a thread (I forget the title, something like "The write here instead of eating thread"), the point of which was to provide a place to come when the urge to "stray" hit. Let's use it again. Tell a joke, share a poem, post a rant, a movie review, ANYTHING, as long as it takes your mind (and hands) away from food until the craving passes. Who knows, perhaps you'll post a gem that'll help others as well as yourself.
Okay, think I'll wander back into the staff kitchen for that
- after all, surely the donuts have disappeared while I've been typing this