Way to go everyone :D

To anyone who either had a smidge of a gain or wanted to lose more: Put it behind you and focus on the habits. We've got two months to add in great habits -and- it'll show as we go along! :yes: :hug:

Well said, Lovely :)


Right now I'm at the garage and there's a huuuge bunch of caramilk chocolate bar (my favorite) eyeing me (okay, I'm eyeing them). My car won't be ready for like 1 hour. I want a bar so bad! LOL

Ouch! >_<

Sometimes if I'm stuck in a situation like that, I tell myself "Lovely, that's not an option. You're not having <insert item>, and there's no choice in the matter."

Surprisingly enough, just telling myself that it's not an option makes it easier to just say no, and move on about my day.

Don't worry, I finally resisted.

They told me I need to put about 700$ on my car, so I'll put the 2$ of the chocolat bar on that bill. Yay, just 698$ to pay. :(

Boooo to car bills.

But HURRAY for resisting! :yay:

with that car bills, at least I know I don't tend to binge in response to despair. LOL

THREE pounds. Its exciting to post this on 3 challenges! I counted calories and dually tracked WWPP and came up short of points daily. My leader said "what did you do different" and I said less points. She said continue but she'd like me not to dip below 24 daily. Well, I'll continue and see how it works out. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE.

Turbo - Congrats on resisting the temptation! Sorry about the car bill! That's a lot...what's wrong if I might ask?

124chicksinger - Congrats on your weight loss! How many points below are you going a day?

For most of us that struggled with pms/tom this week (and there seemed to be quite a few of us) - How do you keep your struggles in check? The week before my tom starts I go up I kid u not 10 pounds!!! and I can't help but eat almost everything in sight. But two days after tom starts and appetite goes away I am back down at least 10 pounds if not more. I have got to figure out some way to get on track and stay on track 100% no matter what.

I've heard a number of ways that people deal with TOM struggles.

One that sticks out in my mind is to thoroughly & completely plan every meal and morsel of food that you will consume ahead of time for those two days.

You can plan to eat a little more. Or to keep yourself strict, you can simply tell yourself "It's not on the list. It's not an option. There's no choice in the matter."

Planning out three meals and a couple snacks for two days is not actually that difficult, and would only take about 10 minutes. So you keep that piece of paper with you for the two days and stick to what's on it no matter what.

For the car bill, well, many things were wrong. *sigh* They had to change completely my front breaks, complete clean up of the breaks on le back, change the blocked air filter and changes a supposed to be keaking front pipe gasket. All that on a 3 years old car that I got new. And that's the third time I have to do some mecanics on it (change a fan strap last christmas and the water pomp 1 year ago) :(

Oh and of course, my 3 years warrante stoped at the end of August :D


For the TOMS, I work out a bit more. It really helps my tummy pain and helps the gaining part too. I also try to watch carefully for sodium during this week :S

Thanks for the advice but I think I should restate my problem lol. I wish it was two days of issues or after tom started but it's not LOL. It's the WHOLE week before tom that I become a human vacuum! I'll just take the advice and spread it out to the the whole week, so again thanks.

Turbo - Wow that is a lot of problems for a 3 year old new car lol.

Lovely - I like the idea of planning and saying if it's not there I can't eat. Hopefully that will work but with two little ones sometimes I have to roll with the punches lol.

I started taking Cinnamon plus chromium today to help with my appetite. Since I have PCOS it is supposed to help regulate my blood sugar, KMFX!

Hey All. Just checking in. Not much new with me. Was up 1/2 pound today. That could be anything. I feel bloated and like I have a little extra water on me. So we'll see if I can get rid of it. Been drinking more water today and will do so again tomorrow. Time will tell.

124chick - Yea for 3 pounds!!! Maybe you've found what works for you. I know WW wants you to think that their program is the "be all" of them but you have to find what works for you and your body.

Turbo - That's a lot to have to do to a car that is only 3 years old. Hopefully this is the last of it and you'll have a perfect car for the winter months.

Lovely - I like your idea of not having "options" on certain foods. I think I'll try that this week and see how I do. My willpower is not so great so perhaps this will help.

I hope you all have a great evening. I'll check back tomorrow.

@PageLynn, 6 points less daily on average, no WP or AP. Not sure for how long I'll do this....today starts week 2 of this experiment. I'd like to see the pounds continue to drop, but I don't want to harm my body either. 1200 calories was my target last week, and this week I've given myself a ceiling of 1400. I plan out my meals as best I can, basically eat the same foods I was on the full 29 points, just less, while at the same time "listening" to my hunger and satisfaction level. This tweak definitely worked last week; I look forward to this week.

Good Morning. Just a quick check in. I made a WW recipe Peach Cobbler yesterday. I ate one piece and it must be a trigger food. All I wanted to do was eat yesterday. And not eat the healthy stuff. I wanted the sweet stuff. So I'm gonna pitch it today and get it out of my house!!! Live and learn I guess.

Have a good day ladies. I'll be back later.

Good for you choosing to pitch it!

This reminds me of the "Stoplight" approach.

Green foods, yellow foods, and red foods.

Green foods are generally healthy foods that you have no problems controlling, eating in moderation and dealing with on a daily basis.

Yellow foods are foods that you can still handle as long as they are closely monitored and measured out.

Red foods, however, are foods you cannot trust yourself with. Foods that honestly should not be kept in the house. This does not mean you cannot eat them every once in a while if you go out to eat or something, but they are not allowed to be kept in your house, because if left alone with them... we might eat the whole container!

One of my leaders used to talk about her big trigger food. Cookies. Cookies no matter the kind, if they were in her house she'd eat the whole sleeve or the whole box or what-have-you. She had to decide that cookies were Red Foods, and were not allowed in her house.

She did allow herself to go out and buy a gourmet cookie if she wanted it, but she couldn't bring that cookie home. She couldn't buy a box, because there was NO moderation for her if she brought them home.

She had to accept that her version of moderation was to only enjoy a cookie as a special treat, and NOT in her house.

I tend to like this philosophy. Why tempt myself with foods that I can't moderate? It's not "never eat this, again, in your life", because I can still have x food if I plan properly for it, but rather "don't put any unnecessary pressure on yourself by keeping tempting foods out of the house!"

So, in a long-winded way, good for you for deciding to toss a food away that was just a trigger!