Mama Isabella's Journal, 16 March 2017

Every day is a new beginning. Best wishes. 

Thank you so much for the encouragement Jeannieselby, it helps a lot! oxo 

Jeannieselby how are you going today? 

Not giving up is WINNING!!!! Your attitude is AWESOME and you WILL see a change! 

Gokona, I love and am so thankful for the encouragement. I am learning now how to make time for me and not forgetting to take care of me as well as my family!! I think that is a hard lesson to learn when you are a wife, mama and a carer as well. oxo 

Good work. One thing I find helpful is to see junk food (shop bought biscuits/chips/take away food) as a ploy to sell me something to make someone else rich while not caring if it kills me (like cigarettes), rather than as a treat. Not sure if that would work for you, but when I look at chocolate this way, it makes it far less tempting. Good luck.  

And PS: If you're in Southern Australia, raspberries, strawberries and blueberries are a great sweet treat and cheaper per kilo than chocolate (especially at the moment). Dates are great too, I find they satisfy my sweet tooth but I can't eat as many as I could chocolate biscuits. Hope some of that is helpful.  

Such good advice here. Thankyou. 

Berries are fine, dates are worse than (some) chocolate. Stick to berries, avoid dates. WAAAY too many carbs, over 75%! No dates! 

that can be a good thing that they have many carbs, you need to fill your macros, thats the key to everything, if you need more carbs things such as dates are a good thing to eat to get what your body needs without earing food that contain empty carbs(junk food) 

good on you. if at first u dont succeed try try again.