Snowwhite100's Journal, 09 March 2019

Snowwhite, just look at your weight chart - Sure, there are little ups and downs, but the MAIN TRAJECTORY is constantlly down. You're doing just fine! Don't beat yourself up - or I'll have to come out there and beat you up myself! 

Consider this a small "speed bump" along your road to success :) 

hang in there.  

Family dinners can be challenging. Bring a dish you love that works with your woe so you can share and have that. Of course, add spaghetti to your plate but try for a smaller amount and fill up on other healthier options if you can. It’s only one meal so enjoy!  

drink lots of water and FLUSH it out! start over on the morning. you might have a hangover but the water will help! Been there! 

Don't beat yourself up. You are honest and just human. The important thing is that you went right back on your food plan the next day. If not the 2 lbs. could have increased to 20. I'm sure we have all had similar experiences with food. For me, I had to learn to be honest with myself. If not I just set myself up for a binge. 

I understand the binge thing and the sweets thing. And eating with your fam that’s tough. Climb right back on that horse and put it behind you. 

Good time to ask yourself, what has worked for you in the previous months? 

Aside from forgiving yourself and moving on, there is a lot of basic and very human diet wisdom that I rely on around food addictions. I've found (and I'm not the originator of this idea) that deprivation is not the way to keep a person eating in a good way. Among other things, I need to feel full, so I make sure I have handy supplies. I eat a lot of carrots and drink water. I also eat a couple of hard-boiled eggs most days and count out little baggies of 21 raw almonds. One more thing I've found to be helpful is to play off one addiction against another. I have a bunch of little addictions, and they're not all food. I like to buy lottery tickets, for example, but I have had to really limit myself because--well, it's stupid and I'd rather save the money and retire happily someday. At any rate, now that I am in an early and kind of strict stage of my weight-loss plan, every day that I stay under my calorie goal I let myself buy a lottery ticket. $1. I don't know why, but it makes a difference in my motivation. It also makes it much easier, somehow, to just get back on the horse after I fall off. The weird thing is that I actually don't end up buying the lottery tickets. I literally walk into the 7-11 and turn around and walk out before I get to the counter. So much of human behavior is about the horizon. And the horizon always recedes. 

That’s why I’m terrified of taking that first bite! I can’t handle moderation right now. Don’t know if I ever will. 

ugh... sadly food addiction is very real. I once got this super mega exercise/diet plan off an infomercial. It worked amazingly, but..... on the 7th day I was literally crying while I ate my breakfast. It was so horribly restrictive that it was not doable for me. It's ok to have a treat here and there. You may have to sacrifice calories from another meal, but sometimes it is really worth it. 

We have all been there. Like all addictions it is easier to have none than just 1. Skip a meal or 2 and drink tons of water. I drink selzer with apple cider vinegar and lemon. It helps curb appetite and desire for sweets. 

Ugggh... I know exactly what you mean. It's terrible. I will do the same thing, feel just awful and then what do I do to try and make myself feel better? I go looking for more food! Like food will help somehow. I hate those days. :(  

Been there, but only recently realized I cannot Touch sugar... just like an alcoholic. I think u have that right. I went half crazy for two days... hunger was over the top... stayed on Keto foods but ate them as though I was starving. Looked back over anything I had done differently, and OMG it was my new liquid vitamins. They apparently added sugar for taste. Just one teaspoon per day with 5grams of sugar set me to binge eating. I know now I cannot Touch sugar, at all. For your spaghetti dinner.. make yourself some foods you really enjoy that are on your program. I use LaCroix drinks to get past problem areas , too. If I am drinking these and eating MY food, while others indulge, it helps me to get past it.  

I have this problem with sugar two. I read about this a lot and It is already proven that sugar is more addictive than cocaine in our brain. So don’t blame your self for it, the food industry spends a crazy amount money on that to keep us addicted and buying more and more. What I did and have been helping in my journey is avoiding buying industrialized food. My main reason is that they use at least 7 different names for sugar and we are keeping our addiction without knowing it. I respect my cravings if I want eat something I eat, no guilty about it. But back on track in the next meal. Don’t have temptation at home. If you want an Ice cream buy a small one eat and get over it. Why torture yourself? My friend is in the same journey and she said to me I have kids I have to have sweets and snacks at home. I questioned her are you sure? Why your kids need to eat bad? Don’t they already attend to a lot of birthdays were they eat bad food? She agreed, and said that use her kids as an excuse to buy potato chips. We have ups and downs, don’t blame yourself if you get out of track go to the gym and eat healthy the next meal. I have sure that you can achieve your goal. Try change sweets for dark chocolate, this helped me too. I am still far away, and my only goal here is helping and saying what is helping me, I know that we already judge ourselves enough. So don’t feel judged by me. Keep going you will achieve your goals. 

What is really sad is I don’t think you enjoyed one mouthful.