What is your mantra?

Mine is borrowed from Rocky: hunger is not an emergency. 

I had been treating it like one all my life. 

Same here . I have told myself this for 2 nights in a row.... As aunt flow has paid a visit and I do fine until about an hour after supper .... 

My only mantra is, 'eat less than what you're able to burn'.
Has worked wonders for me.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I like this one, too, and need to work on this. Not just with weight loss, but with life in general. 

 "be selective, not automatic".    I like that.  Thank you.

I've been tempted to go with "nothing tastes as good as thin feels," but it's a notorious quip among the pro-ana crowd and I just don't want to go there.

My cycling mantra is "it doesn't matter if you're slow, it just matters that you go at all." I think it works pretty well for food as well-- a reminder that one choice won't make or break my health, but every step counts.

This often helps me "It's only ___ minutes or hours until my next meal."

Giving me perspective that I will eat my next meal in __1__ hour, helps me.  I can wait one hour to eat.

I usually make myself ice tea, hot tea or drink a glass of water and keep my hands busy doing something.

Penny

"The scale don't lie and neither do I, stop putting food in your mouth"