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That is good advice samanthaMacG . I think I will try eating an apple before I start my walk at nights as they are supposed to be an energy boosting fruit.

Today was a good day for eating and I think for walking lol . My youngest woke up 3 times while I was doing my walk so I kept having to go see her for a bit and the treadmill resets itself back to 0 if it has been stopped for too long so everytime I came back it was at starting again so I don't actually know how long or far I walked tonight when all added together but I at least got on it so I figure that is the main thing . I still want chocolate so much though I wish that craving would at least lessen . I feel like I probably will always fight that one but is it always going to be such a daily struggle not to eat it ? I haven't really set weekly or monthly weigh in goals as of yet . Just kind of that I want to lose about 70 pounds ,but I have been it will keep you more on track if you set little ones so I figure it should be obtainable to be officially under 200 pounds by mid March .
 
So the local spca does a cupcake fundraiser every year and I help by baking cupcakes so i have been baking today and I didn't actually eat a cupcake and then this evening I was mixing up all my icing so I can decorate when the kids go to bed so I decided I needed to taste the icing to make sure it turned out OK . I tried it and then tried it again and then one more time just to make sure it was for sure OK .....alright I really only needed to taste it once and really wish I only did because yes it was sweet and delicious but I feel sick now ! I guess I have been doing pretty good with my eating lately and all I drink is water and green tea so this was like wow sugar ! I am not worried about eating a cupcake now when I am up late decorating because I just feel gross . Hoping to score a walk before I start to ice for the night though and drink a lot more water . I feel that is the best I can do to make this nauseous feeling go away .
 
Had friends over for dinner tonight ,it was fun and I maybe ate a little too much of the meat because it was so tasty but I didn't even glance at the rice and didn't really want it so that was good . Did fine when we did dessert and later when the kids all wanted a snack with their movie I didn't feel the need to grab any too . It was a good day I am just tired now ( socializing exhausts me lol) so no walk tonight just going to try and pull the kitchen together enough that I feel we can function in it for breakfast tomorrow .

One friend that was over is very supportive weight wise because she has been there she was 250 pounds and my husband helped her lose 90 pounds and she looks so good now and you can tell just feels so much better and happier all the time . So it was good seeing her and what she has accomplished .

I must be messing up somewhere in my daily diet that I am not registering because the last couple days the scale isn't going down it has started to creep back up ! I don't feel I am eating too badly so my next guess would be portion size is maybe a little too big still. So tomorrow I will try and work on that .

I also am getting tired of drinking the green tea as I don't actually really like any hot beverage. I don't drink coffee or tea normally and where I do like hot chocolate I don't ever feel the need to have one I just took up the green tea for the health benefits and I did find that because I always seemed to have a cup on the go that it helped while I was cutting down snacking and cutting out sugar . So I think I will take a break from it now for a few days and just see if I start grabbing a snack again because I don't have my tea on the go . Then I will take back up tea drinking but if I don't then it will be nice to have break from it and just get back to only water all day .
 
Ahhh what is wrong with me ! Why can't i just eat properly ? I did so good at supper , it was a very yummy pasta casserole with white cheddar and sausages and .....I didn't have any . I made a great little chicken salad for myself . Doing well right ? Except then late tonight when I got hungry I went to get yogurt from the fridge only to not be strong enough to not eat the damn delicious casserole !! I am feeling very mad at myself tonight . I was on the right track with diet this time around and it feels like it is slipping away . I am not saying I am giving up I will still try to be on track tomorrow but it is starting to feel like no matter how much I try I will always screw up by the night . Well here is hoping tomorrow I pull it together a bit .
 
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Don´t scold yourself; your body is already feeling deprived and telling it it´s not trying hard enough won´t make it easier. Sitting next to people eating delicious things while you have a "little salad", great or otherwise, isn´t easy. Maybe try measuring out a small portion of the delicious stuff other people are having and supplement it with an extra side of veggies. The only way to do this long-term without going crazy is by giving your body not only what it needs but also at least a bit of what it wants.
 
You have kicked yourself while you're down. You've addressed what you're doing wrong. You've made a promise (or a hope) that you'll do better tomorrow but let's get brutally real for a moment - how?

If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail.

It's great that you've addressed what is wrong with your diet and WHEN you're overeating but how are you going to fix this?

1) Put the casserole at the back and fill up the fridge with veggies to grab.
2) Make a cut-off time for food. Mine is 7pm. If I'm hungry, I'll eat before then but after, no.
3) Drink water with fruit infused instead (having a water bottle in your hand seems to make a HUGE difference for a lot of people).
4) Tell your partner/friends the struggle you're having and see if they can go for a walk/go to the gym/do something with you to avoid food.
5) Earlier bedtime. Tired = less control.
6) Don't leave an entire bowl of leftovers in the fridge - partition it into smaller containers. You are statistically more likely to eat less if it's in smaller containers.
7) Freeze the leftovers.
8) Lock the fridge (even 2 magnets and a piece of paper attached to the door and side of the fridge that says "This door is locked because you aren't actually hungry" can be enough to mentally reset your brain to not binge).
9) Get a different evening routine going to avoid the binges.


So BEFORE this happens again, what's your plan?
 
It was the hardest thing for me to break and I kept saying "I'll do better tomorrow" but I had to actually take action and make a plan - not just a goal. It's horrible when you keep feeling like you failed - a lot easier that first week you realize you succeeded!
 
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