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Tuesday....I weighed myself because I needed to know where I was at. I gained 4 pounds :-/ pfft. Well Tuesday, Wed. and Thurs. I have been to the gym working my ass off for an hour. Which I plan on doing the same thing today. I want that 4 pounds to come back off! Damnit! lol. Geez. And usually I will go out to eat on Fridays with my parents...but I am not going tonight because I know if I do...I will eat. And I mean eat bad things. Oh I want to go so bad lol. But I will stay away go tnning...maybe to the mall then to the gym and workout for an hour or so. I wanted to be outta the 250's Now i am at 260! Ot I was on Tuesday...tomorrow will tell.  I mean come on!  PATIENCE! <--- I do not have that.

aww now don't even be trippin over that. Do your best...i think exercise can make your body retain water...my body has done that lots to me...kinf of build up the water weight, then suddenly as it came, it's gone.  keep a game face on, my girlie.

It's almost as if I can not win the battle with myself. I can't follow any diet for more than like 2 days. I can exercise everyday no problem because i enjoy the gym. But i can not win the battle with the food addiction.

I hear you!  My battle is with food.  Once I get into the groove of exercising I am good, but I have to cut back on the food and eat healthy in order to lose.  That's just the way my body is.  What I am working on now is my food addiction.  I tend to look at it more like rehab now.  I just can't be trusted too much with food and it will probably be a while before I can be.  Although, I will admit that I have gone to a restaurant twice in the last two week, but last night I could not finish my meal.  I decided to let myself have a (reasonable size) burger and fries at a sit down place.  I ate about 2/3 of the burger and maybe 2/3-3/4 of the fries and gave the rest to my dad b/c he wished he had ordered a double instead, LOL.  My mom had a teriyaki chicken breast with broccoli and baked potato and I almost wished I had ordered that but I wanted the burger and I try to make a decision before I get to the restaurant and stick with the choice that I have planned.  (I try to always have a set plan before I get there)  I still will not trust myself with fast food restaurants though and don't know if I will any more-even healthier choices.  It's too easy for me to slip into old habits. Knowing that you have a moderation problem with food is a huge step.  For a long time (several years ago) I fooled myself into thinking that as long as I did enough exercise to make up for it that I would be ok.  I'm not discounting exercise in the least-it is vital to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.  It doesn't really solve the real problem which will not go away on its own.  You will find a program that works for you, I have faith in you! b:)

Thanks. :) I really can not be trusted with food. I need to go home and throw everything away that is in my fridge and what not. Everything that is bad for me needs to go into the trash! And I just can't go out to eat for a long time I think. I just have to ALWAYS be doing something or  I will eat. Like tonight I will keep myself busy maybe stay over here at work for a couple of hours, then tan, then to the gym...then maybe watch a movie with no food in the house! And then sleep. BAM...as long as I am always doing something I wont eat. *sigh* Hopefully I will find my way soon! lol

I have stopped keeping foods in the house that I know for me are the most difficult to avoid.  It just makes it easier, why suffer.  I don't eat out much anymore.  If my mind is where it needs to be motivation wise then I can handle it about once a week.  I really don't even recommend that, but that's what I've been doing.  If my mindset changes to where I am overindulging too much, I will eliminate even that.  It 's harder to make the right choices, not overeat and you're not sure if your choices are really as low cal as you might think.  Based on most studies they are quite fattening.  I don't want to undo the hard work that I put in all week.  It's just easier at home, especially at this phase where I'm trying to lose and not just maintain.   I do think it's important to learn how to make wise choices and to practice portion control when we are in different situations.  It's unrealistic to think that we can just always avoid them.  If you cheat enough that you don't lose then you get discouraged and next thing you know you are back to old habits.  Success encourages more success.  Don't sweat your weight fluctuation just give it a couple days and then weigh again.  My weight does that about once a week for whatever reason, then goes back down.  Good luck and have a great weekend! Brenda

you have a date tonight, right??? I also have huge food issues and cannot be trusted.  This is why I shop for my food and then as soon as I get home I portion it out.  When I get up in the AM I pack my lunchbox with all the things I will need through the day... when I get home from work I just reach in the fridge for a dinner to heat up.  If I dont have EVERYTHING pre portioned and pre-meaused I will go crazy and eat! eat! eat! When I come home on Saturday I make all my meals for the week ahead.  It is the only thing that keeps me on track.  If I am left to make decisions on the fly they will not be good ones. Yes people think I am a little strange for bringing my own food with me wherever I go.  They think I am strange for eating every 2 hours like some overgrown infant...  but it works for ME.  I need this level of control.  I hope that someday I will be able to relax a little but if this is what it takes to be thinner and healtier for life I am willing to do it. I eat things I like, I eat a reasonable amount, I eat every 2 hours hungry or not, I have a treat every evening, I don't exercise or eat much veg (working on veg - will exercise someday...LOL) and I am in control of myself where food is involved. Maybe you could try not depending on a "diet" and instead just eat things you like and track it in fitday or thedailyplate like a madwoman.  Once you can see, in an objective way, what you are really eating maybe you could start making some real and difinitive changes for life. You are so lucky to be working on this while you are young.  I wish that I had made changes long before now.

No, no date tonight it is next Saturday. Which it was really supposed to be the 22nd Two weeks from tomorrow but we moved it up lol.  Thank you both Brenda and Violamom. Soon I will figure it out. I really need to be like in a rehab center lol. No joke either. Because I am highly capable of driving to a fast food place no matter what. I need to be put in a place for like a whole month where I can't go anywhere and someone makes my meals for me and I exercise like 2 hours out of the day....and only water is allowed to drink lol. SERIOUSLY! I mean come on then maybe after a month of that I would have my self channeled. :)

Trust me I know all about addiction to fast food! Brenda

How did you stop it?