Holding steady

I'm holding steady at 170 i do not want to be 170 i want to be 15soemthing. I'll take 159. the lowest i'd been was 157. the highest in the past 5 months was 174. i'd lost 5 pounds in the past 2 weeks then have gained back a pound. i havne't change that muchof waht i've been doing other than not entering food eaten on fitday.com. thats a great site i've just been busy, distracted, looking at career choices, relationships, life yada yada yada. add it all up and add to it the battle of the cookies. the cookies won twice but i came throug strong and threw out a box of them that i'd just bought, opened, and eaten 6 of. stood there and went WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? I made sure that when I threw them away I opened the package and dumped them in the same garbage bag as the dirty cat litter! not taking any chances on getting weak! the cat littler would hold me back! i can not get the image out of my head that i am fat. at 5' 7 & 1/2" i'm not fat. I'm still wearing my size 10's though they are getting tight. i want to get back into my size 8 again when they were loose. so these are my affermations. I will lose the extra pounds and get to the 150's I will keep working at it. I will work extra hard at not buying or eating cookies. cookies are the enemy. Ban cookies! If you think about whats so good about cookies? NO DON'TTHINK ABOUT COOKIES! Just paint me blue and stick me on sesame street the cookie monster lives in CT.

OK Pammie, let's look at this cookie situation.... I'm just playing Devil's Advocate and throwing out ideas so take them for what they're worth. The Great Connecticut Battle of Snackwells seems to have been going on forever. The Crackwells (yes, I did say Crackwells) have a hold and you have a love/hate relationship going on. Swapping out other things like carrots and broccoli hasn't worked. How about swapping out with another cookie that is low sugar, but maybe you don't like as well, maybe Ginger Snaps, then wean yourself off the Ginger Snaps. Sort of the same thing as a Methadone treatment for Heroin addicts. (It's my personal opinion that there is Crack in Starbucks coffee as well as Snackwells.) Go back to counting on Fitday and count the treatment cookie. Just cut back a little every day or every few days. I'm going to have to follow this same process with popcorn. I had a rice cake last night. I'm not sure whether I ate the rice cake or the cardboard box, but at least it took away the popcorn craving. Hugs, Connie

Yup I know about that starbuck addiction big time!! Now that I have the NEW car I am not eating in it ( like I should have been, anyway) but the Van I always did. So the new thinking has worked so far I have lost 4 lbs in a week & so far it has stayed gone. I have cut back to Starbuck's only a couple times aweek instead of everyday. Hopefully by next week I will be down to just once a week. Too @#$%^ expensive to have a Starbuck's addiction or Jack's which is a restaurant that does better frapp's than starbuck & gives us locals a 10% discount. With car payments now Have to cut the expense & the calories at the same time. Connie has some good thoughts as long as her dogs are not trying to kill her!! Hee-Hee Ladybig Marilyn

Your right Connie, this snackwell cookie thing is an addiction. i thought about doing the other cookie and working down from it but you know what? the snackwells were what i went to after no sugar cookie fix. so i think what i do is become addicted to any particule thing that fits my fancy. too bad its not carrots but then i'd be orange. unfortunately cookie addictions are an acceptable adiction. thats to other people who do not understand the whole adicton thing. i need to go cold turkey. turn away from them and dont look back. i gave up sugar since surgery and pepsi too. now i dont' miss those. so i need to just keep away from the snackwells. just avoid the cookie ailse totally. maybe even get the kid in produce to run down for my fat free saltines. thank god i only get a box of those every 6 months! i feel the same about dunkin donuts coffee