my name is pam cooper an i'm addicted to wheat thin crackers and atkins protein bars.

i decided 3 weeks ago to kick those addictions. I knew that i couldn't do both of them at the same time so i decided that the wheat thin crackers would be the first to do.

i'm sure that some of you are shaking your heads saying wheat thin crackers??? thats an addiction??? yes. to me it is. theres not a whole lot of things that I can eat that aren't going to set off the LBS its doing so very good now that i am also ready to start (dare I say it!!!!) dieting! i am to the point where i can go longer without eating and now its time to pu**** to the 3 hour limit! woo hoooo what an accomplishment!

but the wheat thins were holding me back. i am being brutaly honest here...i was almost up to eating a whole box in a days time. do you knw how many calories those puppies have??? i was so very disapointed in myself when i first realized that i was almost eating a whole box. it ws just from grazing while driving to different customers. i just really did not realize by the time i did it was a bad habit that i coul dnot kick. it had become an addiction.

i had 2 boxes of them in the house and i put my foot down and said once they are gone i am not buying anymore. and i didn't. the first day was the hardest but i made it though and i kept telling myself just do it for 10 minutes then i said hey you did 10 minutes go for an hour and so on until all of a sudden it was a week. now its 3 or 4 can't remember. i'm glad i stopped i do not buy them anymore and i do not eat them at any of the different get togethers that i've gone to.

so now i decided it ws tim eto kick my atkins protein bar addictin. there are 5 bars to a box. they have germongos protein in them. they tastes just wonderful and have 2 grams of sugar plus the ones i like only hav 1 gram of sugar alcohol something that upsets my LBS plus my tummy if i have more than that. the really big thing is that they have chocolate drizzeled on them. the really big down thing is that they are 200 calories each. here comes the truth thingy...i was almost eating a box a day. not only was i haveing an additional 800 to 1000 calories but i was telling myself that its ok cause they have all that protein  in them. who was i kidding?  not to mention that at 8 bucks a pop thats a whole lot of money each week that i could be using towards bills over a months time.

soooooo yesterday i had the last one at 5pm. i plsnned my snacks and meals today for work so the box was filled with good things. i missed that 9am atkins so much. then at 12 i was thinking abut them omg i was so wanting them fortunately it was a busy day an i had so much to do that i didn't get to the point hwere i was thinking about buying at box of them until 3 pm. by that point i had to head back to the office for a meeting an din't have the tim eto stop. i did stop to pivk up milk but walked past the atkins aisle.

here it is almost 10 pm a full day without the one thing that i ate with such joy. that cost me so much money wise. that added way to many extra calories per day. do you think it was keeping me from losing? i'msure it had ahand in it.

so now i have to work at not having a new addiction. the worst thing si kicking one aediction then adding a new one to replace it.

i'm so tired.
Reenie are you proud of me??? of course its only  one day without atkins but he ITS ONE DAY WITHOUT ATKINS! im so proud of myself.