If I have peanut butter in the house, I will constantly dip into it. And the chocolate peanut butter from Dreamfields...forget about it! I could eat the jar in about 2 or 3 hours. It's a curse.

It wasn't an article. It was a discussion on one of the other boards. I think it might have been on the main board. A few people responded to the poster saying that we should avoid fiber. I'm not sure if there is a way to do a word search and find the post or not.

hAVE FUN AT THE GAME! GREAT JOB ON EXERCISING ... even though you were sore talk to you Sunday

Hi 1) Am continuing with my eating and not tracking this week 2)18 minutes on the elliptical 162 calories 3) Very sore today could barely finish 18 minutes. 4) 85 ounces of water 5) I took them all 6) Day 4 of exercising I'm not getting my full 30 minutes in but at least I'm doing what I can. 7) Exercising is helping me to stay in my skinny clothes 8) Another baseball game tonight and I had to wash his uniform because we have pictures on Sunday. I won't be posting tomorrow because we're going up to the cabin and I have no computer there. I am going to swim up there if it's warm enough. Talk to you Sunday night. Deb

Britt, I feel you do need to allow yourself a day here and there where you don't worry about what you eat and things like a daughter's birthday would be one of those occasions, I would think, so don't beat yourself up too badly. Just remember what you probably would have eaten before surgery. If it had been me I'm sure I would have hit the 3000 to 4000 calorie mark on a day that included things like birthday cake. To have stayed well under 2000 is great! Now, you're right, time to get back on track I agree that these postings are helpful, it really makes us take stock of what we're eating and doing. I know I was very surprised when I started tracking my food a few months ago at how much I was eating and how much of it was completely useless stuff that just added tons of calories. I will be honest that it took several weeks of journaling my food before I actually made a change. For some reason even though I was looking at the scary numbers everyday it didn't quite sink in and I kept making terrible choices. For me it was when my boyfriend looked at one of my day's entries and I was totally horrified to know that he saw my bad choices. Not only did I know what I ate but I was letting someone else see it too. It did the job and I got serious finally. The most important step was what you said on number 7...you tracked and posted and were honest even though it sucked. That's hard to do!!!!! Okay, I'll quit rambling on and on. Have a great weekend Britt!! Corinna Q