Jill,

I can TOTALLY relate to those feelings!! I, too have had those feelings. I then have to remind myself that if I eat more than I should that I WILL pay for it later and is it REALLY worth it??? Nope....

I DO NOT want to go back to where I started. I was not a happy person and you can so see that in my before picture!

((HUGS))
Beth

OMG Jill, I can so relate to this, not today, but I have had that same feeling about not being able to finish all that is on my plate. . .  I want to continue to have that sensation of my tastebuds bursting with flavor and then there is the component that I was never allowed to leave anything on my plate. . .  however, like you, my sane brain (when it is sane that is), tells me this is wonderful and that the old way of life is what led me to where I was once and where I began to go when my scale numbers started moving in the wrong direction. . .  this past weekend at my son's beach house, he was showing Sami pictures from when she was little and other things, one of the pictures he came across was of me taken in his house as it was being built, I think it was in the Summer of 2005, which would be two years before my surgery, well the reality of what I looked like in that picture and the idea that I, at that time, thought I looked great, was really tellling, as well as helped me with where I'm at today. . .  anyway, I get it and our addictive minds are just so distorted when it comes to food, but doesn't it feel good when you have that clarity to say, Not today, today I will do what I know is the right thing for me. . .

Hugs, L

1 - ham/egg/cheese eng muffin, hash browns
2 - none
3 - egg salad sandwich on wheat
4 - none
5 - I think we're going Italian tonight.
6 - corn flakes with strawberries/blueberries.

Stopping when the pouch says STOP!

Lynn that would be awesome!!!  Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow then.

Laureen,

I am REALLY gonna try to come to this one!!

Beth