Okay, it's official...I have issues

I do not enjoy dieting on the weekends. I associate food with my mood. DH and I are both feeling this way today. We've wanted to sit in front of the TV and eat whatever we want. 90% of the time, I can do this, but sometimes I just want full fat food with lots of calories. I want to look at a menu and eat whatever I want. I don't want to think about the calories or the points or anything. This is really going to be a life-long battle, isn't it? Every stinkin' day. I promise not to whine often...I told myself that the island should be free of that. I'll be better tomorrow, I promise!

It's not issues--it's called being Normal. What about one free day each week? Lots of successful healthy people have a free day every week. The Body for Life guy even suggests this. I have a friend that has lost and kept off over 200# on WW (the only successful person I know) and after she weighs in on Wednesday--she eats whatever she wants that day and that day only. So if she wants a dinner of nachos and ice cream that's what she has.

Wow, great mind DO think alike!

That sounds like a good idea. I can't do too much damage eating limited portions. Problem is I weight in on Mondays, making a weekend pig-out difficult. What is bothering me is that not being able to eat what I want is depressing me. I would like to disassociate my happiness with food. The 2 really shouldn't be connected.

I think Tonya's idea is a great one. I am going to incorporate it into my schedule and see if it helps me.

I think we need a "free" day weekly. We can never eat the amount of foods that we did before, but we can splurge occasionally. Today I am pouring down cran-grape juice in the hopes that the weirdness I have been having is kidney related. Of course I haven't been getting all my water in either. Traveling throws me off bigtime, and I need to get back to normal before I leave for Ireland next Saturday. I have whined all week, so it's your turn now.

Everyone is entitled to 24 hours of whining. I guess that today was your day. I hope that tomorrow will be a better day for you.

Whine away - Life sucks! At least it does when you are a chronically obese person (the term I use to describe myself) and you have to eat carefully for the rest of your life! And.....LIFE IS WONDERFUL!!! With this awesome tool our doctors gave us, we can look normal and live normal lives! And......LIFE SUCKS! I still want to eat like an unbanded person! And....LIFE IS WONDERFUL!!! I get to buy cute clothes and exercise and do whatever I want - except eat..... What a conondrum we live, eh?

Nancy, I can totally relate to this post. When I had to go on that low carb, low tyramine, no beef, eat cardboard only diet in 1999 (prescribed by my GI doctor to get me healthy and well GIwise), I adopted this philosophy and it worked for me. I would have monthly check-ups to be weighed and my blood work done for my Avandia. That day after my doctor's appointment until the same time the next day (24 full hrs), I would eat three meals that I had been craving. This let me blow off my steam and regenerate for the next 30 days. You just have to be careful not to let yourself go longer than the prescribed amount of time. Even now, I plan a meal, or two, sometimes, during my week that has higher carbs or ends in a small bite or two of dessert. Many times, I will make the dessert in band ways, but I won't totally alter it. Make Sense? This is about learning to live with food in our lives and no longer being controled by the monster inside of our brains that shrieks, "EAT, EAT, EAT"!!! Now, my monster is alive and well; by the grace of God, it is tamer, but it is still there. I can relate to everything that you have said. Probably why it has been such a hard week for me due to all the rain and cold. The perfect conditions for clicking on the tube and eating and watchig TV.

Hey Nancy , I put myself back on sparkpeople yesterday, and followed and tracked my eating... I watched the clock all day, waiting for my next "feeding", I was in denial, but I have been grazing all day long, and didn't realize it till I didn't allow myself to yesterday. I was a starving mess. Yes it will be life long, because we get so much pleasure from food.