Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!! Carla

OK peeps, how are we all? Are we winning against the carb monster? I have finally found a breakfast cereal that I don't dump on - fruit & fibre which is good as it seems to fill me and not give me carb cravings. I had 2 shortbread cookies and 5 bite size chocolate candies again, but dinner was chicken & veg. Didn't actually want to eat it all but knew I needed the protein. So I'm pleased with today. It will be better once all the holiday food is gone.

Yesterday was a step in the positive direction. I ate more carbs (pasta and bread) than I had wanted to, but managed to avoid candy and pastries. I did better on my water. Today will focus on more water and less carbs. I'm going to bring a few frozen dinners (leftovers from Christmas) to work today to avoid the cafeteria. Happy Friday! Diane

I think my problem is my choice of food now rather than the quantity. So I eat candy and carbs instead of protein. That's what I need to work on and then I might start losing again. I'm not sure that my calories are high, just empty. You just have to be so organised and think ahead for protein dont you. Carbs are much more easily accessible, sigh... Mindyou, now my backside is in an office chair all day, that might be a different matter rather than walking around the stores during the holidays! It's amazing how those steps add up isn't it.

sign me up.... ;) today I finished my animal crackers... they are all gone and I am not gonna buy no more. ;) (famous last words) I did okay for breakfast, egg lunch, protein bar snack, tangerine dinner, cream of wheat tummy ache snack, cheese slices snack, potato chips snack, a few spaghetti noodles snack, almond rocha snack, slice of homemade bread with 1 oz of cream cheese but somewhere about 6 pm I got the worse twisted gut ache, I do not know if it was the tea that ripped me a new one or what, but wow, I thought I was going to have to go to the ER it hurt so bad. still pretty tender right now, but tolerable. but I am sticking to it, I will get back on track and drop the extra 5 that I gained during Christmas with all my decadent choices. althought I can not promise anything on Sunday, we are having Christmas Dinner 2.0 for my daughter's family.