confession time

[ShiningStarr]

Well yesterday I was to make a dinner for a family in my church who has just had a baby. I of course said yes and new what I was going to make. Lasagna. Something I could put together and then they could later cook off when they wanted it. I thought I would then send a salad and it was suggested to send a dessert also. I thought cookies....anyways...the cookies got me. I was ok until they started coming out of the oven and it was time to clean up....it was down hill from there. I sent 2 dozen to the family but had kept a bunch a side (a little over cooked) for my family. Well lets just say my family didn't see them. They were gone by the time anyone got home. Then I thought well ok not good Starr but you odn't have to wait until the morning to get back on plan...do it now... of course i wasn't hungry then so I drank some water and thought about what induction dinner I was going to have....Well Dinner time comes and I make the Fam goulash and still not hungry I decide to skip making ,myself something and take the meal I had prepared to the family. Well I stop at a gas station to fill up and have to go inside...well at the register staring me in the face is a whoopie pie! No not a Wooshie pie...a whoopie pie...now i think this is a Maine New England thing so I will describe....Think two layers of real Moist Chocolate cake with a crazy thick layer of fluffy frosting...about the size of a bakery bagel....basically HEAVEN! Anyways I convince myself it would be ok and got one. I eat it in the car (can't go home with that!!!) and 1/4 of the way through it I realize it doesn't taste as good as I thought it would and throw it away. So that leaves me here....feeling a headache coming on and thinking why why why?? I should have known...I have to be in the right mind set to bake and then I can really only bake things I don't really like. Well I have learned....And tomorrow is a new atkins friendly day!! See you there!!

[Atkid]

Re: confession time

Okay, confession time is over, you know you were bad. Now move on and forward, like you said tomorrow is another day.

[SandyL2002]

Re: confession time

Oh Starr I can relate...Yesterday it was a Granola bar for me.. My daughter bought the nice hard ones.. well they called me all day and once I had 2 packets.. I was thinking.. Well I might as well have a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner.. I didn't though.. I had meatloaf and broccoli.... But this morning I already ate another granola bar AFTER having a legal omelet... GRRR

[ShiningStarr]

Re: confession time

Thanks for the support Sandy! WHy do we do this to ourselves?? Well the great thing is we don't have to wait untill the next day to get started. We just make sure the next thing we put in our mouths is on plan and then we are back into our WOE. We can do this together!! I have already drank 1 quart of water today! I am aiming for 4! Good luck today!

[MorningGlory]

Re: confession time

...I have already drank 1 quart of water today! I am aiming for 4! Good luck today!

See Starr, you're already doing what you gotta do. All the why's in the world won't help you. Congrats on picking yourself up and getting back in the saddle. I see you're also in the New Year/New You Challenge....I am too. I think that'll be a great motivator for all of us, hey?
Have a great day today....you're motivated and on the right track!
MG

[Alexa]

Re: confession time

Starr,

it sounds like you handled this well and learned from it - that is the main thing here, not perfection

I wrote something about toning up the back in the New year New You thread, just in case you miss it in that mammoth thread!

[ShiningStarr]

Re: confession time

Thanks Alexa and Morning~~ I am back on track and feel great about it!! I saw both your post in the challenge thread and really appreciate the support. Your the best!

[partytrouble]

Re: confession time

great job getting back on track starr!!

[Bizzie]

Re: confession time

Tomorrow is a new day, we all have our weak moments.

[MsLynn]

Re: confession time

i am so glad i'm not the only to have had weak moments. i've done good this time around, day 8 and i'm 9 pounds down. WOOOOHOOOO, YAY ME.. just hope i can keep it going.

last board i was on, if someone had a weak day, people were so hate to them.

[dreamof145]

Re: confession time

Congratulations on getting back up and running. Like you said, lesson learned. This is the time to prepare for the next time cookies or moon pies tempt you. What will you do? Drink water until it passes? Take out your journal and look at your amazing measurements as to how many inches you've lost so you won't want to do anything to stop the progress? Do some exercises instead? Turn in to the ADBB and get support? Make the plan now so that you can read and re-read it and if/when the time comes you won't have second thoughts as to what to do.

Don't be down on yourself, this is a learning process....One that we all have to go through and make choices. Train yourself with positive actions to take the place of old 'negative unhealthy food choices'. Those foods will always be jumping out at us from time to time -- but we can change our attitude about them. Substitute foods to satisfy a craving if all else fails.

[Sheepie]

Re: confession time

I eat it in the car (can't go home with that!!!) and 1/4 of the way through it I realize it doesn't taste as good as I thought it would and throw it away.

On the bright side, this was really good. To throw it away after having already tried it. I don't think I could do that. I would have finished it first (even if it didn't taste great) and then vowed to be good afterward. So, lesson learned and time to move forward.