It's really not hard!! :o

Hehe when we were first dating, my now-husband used to do what he thought was the right thing and give me fancy chocolates for special occasions. When we were young, it was supermarket chocolates. As we got older, he graduated to more expensive stuff.

I'd graciously try to choke down a piece or two but inside I was going, "Ewww, patooey!" I'd put it in the fridge, let it sit a week or two, then sneak it into the trash on collection day. Felt guilty, but hey, it really didn't appeal to me.

When I do eat chocolate, I'm more than happy with a simple chocolate Kiss or two ((waves at LLV)) or half a handful of semi-sweet chocloate chips.

By the way, turns out, the now-husband actually is the chocoholic! Whenever I do buy a package of Kisses, he'll swoop them up and empty it out in one sitting! But even he can't stomach the fancy stuff :lol: And I finally told him what I was doing with them, so he's stopped buying them. Now I get flowers and spa certificates!

Wow! This seems like a hot topic and just emphasizes that we're all different. When I joined WW, they wanted you to buy the trackers that looked like a checkbook. I even bought an electronic calculator. Now I keep a simple dollar store notebook on the table where I eat most of my meals. I tried not writing it down. Didn't work for me. I lost 43 lbs. originally and 25 creeped back over 2 years. I'm back on track because I'm writing it all down again. I guess the maintenance was the hardest for this lifer. I need to realize that writing things down keeps me accountable to me for the rest of my life. That will keep me healthy anyway. If I stray, I gain. Whatever you do and whatever you discover about yourself you need to realize that many people can tell you what to do and offer advice. You need to know what works for you. Good luck and remember it's all about a healthy lifestyle. :)

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HIJACKED!

Sorry, Snowflake! And thanks, Sue, for getting it back on track!

I'm happy with my chocolate sugar-free pudding cups :)

Aww, there's nothing wrong with going off-track once in a while. That's how we learn about each other :)

I use Nutridiary to keep track of my calories. Some days it's a real pain in the neck and I don't feel like doing it, but every time I stop writing down what I eat I start gaining.

Like it or not, this is the only thing that works for me. I pretty much know what calories are in everything by heart now, so I should be able to do it without a food diary, but somehow writing it down is making it "real" to me and I makes me acknowlege what I'm eating and be truthful about it. Without a food diary I kid myself that 'a little bit of this and a little bit of that won't hurt'.

I don't record my exercise, though, as I do the same thing all the time - 3 times a week at curves and walking on the other days.

Great thread - I just wanted to toss in another vote for the "If I don't write it down, the weight creeps back" camp....We ARE all different - that's half the fun of 3FC....:D

I don't track and never have. BUT I'm not ruling it out in the future if my weight loss stalls at a level I don't want to be at or I start regaining what I've lost. I might have lost faster if I'd tracked, but I didn't need to so I haven't done. I tried fitday once and really didn't get on with it (partly because it's set up for US foods/measurements), and haven't done anything since. It really does vary from person to person.

I journalled my food intake at the beginning, on paper. I don't get on with fitday either, and am also in the UK.

After a while I found journalling my food intake was giving me a really difficult relationship with food, rather than helping. Not only was I obsessing about what I ate, but also obsessing about writing it down, having my diary with me, etc etc.

So I stopped. And the weight continued to go. But I go back to journalling during plateaus or recovering from holidays etc.

It's one of those things that if it works for you and holds you accountable, it's fabulous, but if it hinders you, then ditch it.

Not only are all our bodies different, but so are our brains!!!

Exactly my reaction to it! You said what I have been trying to say! It drives me up a wall and makes me focus waaaaaay too much on food!

Same thing for me joining a "program" such as WW or Prism, etc... I do much better setting my own plan and working toward rewards I set for myself rather than details of what I can and can't have.

But as you said, not only are our bodies different, but ya likewise our brains!

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