Non-abstinent day

I started out abstinent with breakfast, but messed up the rest of the day. Breakfast 2 pieces french toast (made with 12-grain bread) with margarine & light syrup 3/4 cup grapefruit juice 1 cup skim milk 1 cup hazelnut coffee 20 oz. water Mid-Morning Goof 9 cookies and one piece of cake 1 cup coffee Lunch (At Steak N Shake) Frisco Melt sandwich Lots of tiny french fries Cup of chili with crackers Milk Water Dinner (At Anthe's Restaurant) Chicken Parmesan Spaghetti with tomato sauce Kidney bean salad 2 rolls with butter Cup of chili with crackers (left part of it) 1 glass milk 3 glasses water 2 cups decaf 1 large slice ice cream birthday cake (left part of it) I will start over being abstinent tomorrow.  I will keep away from cookies at church, from now on.  This started me on the road to non-abstinent eating today. Denise Phares/kitties4

ACK!  You just reminded me I forgot about the stuff I ate at church today :( I was out all day, and ended up eating a wendy's single cheeseburger for lunch(no fries at least), and I had pizza for dinner(2 small slices(instead of half of the whole pie!)  I thought I had blown it, but when I entered my foods on fitday, I was below my maximum amount of calories.  I overdid the sodium(shocking!) - and didn't have all my nutritional requirements, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. Now I gotta go back and enter 3 little brownies, and some cheese and crackers......  Thanks for reminding me(really) Tomorrow is another day :) 

Church potlucks - great food, dangerous on a plan! Gotta get back on the horse, kitties!

Hey Kitty!! It's okay.  We don't have to be "perfect" to be successful.  Move on and write this day off.  I'm in WW too and on Flex.  My Baby niece had a birthday party - I ate 8 Italian multi- sprinkled cookies - opened the 2 boxes just so that I could take the only 4 that came in each of those boxes.  I wonder if each box had 8, would I have ate 16?  I'm crazy like that.  And I soooooooooooooooooo enjoyed every single one of those cookies - they were intoxicating and can I say . . . so worth it ;-)!   Anyways, that episode threw me off course. Even though I cooked some beautiful and incredibly healthy food to bring with me the morning of the party I just did a free for all and . . . I didn't track the whole week. When I went to WW I said I know I gained - I even almost talked myself out of  going (torchured my self actually) , but I said "no way!"  I said no way because that is the first step to me  losing sight of my ultimate goal.  I give up and end up even further from my goal than where I began. Well guess what?  I lost!!!  I lost 1.4lbs with not giving much of myself  - without dedication.  This week so far, I'm eating really healthy and jotting down every single morsel that enters my mouth.  I'm moving and exercising as much as I can.  I'm loving me and I am down  a total of 7.2 lbs after 2 weigh-ins. Kitty I think that abstinence can get a bit tricky.  OA is a blessing, but  "good and bad" has always been a running theme in my life.  I used to feel so bad when I lost my abstinence - so guilty.  I can't do that to myself.  WW is cool because you get your assigned points and then you get the extra 35 to play with.  You don't fail because you go over your points for the day, you just take from the 35. The CORE plan doesn't seem like the right plan for you right now.  You seem to be attracted to so many non-Core foods.  So why not make it easier on yourself?  If you want a cookie or two or an extra fruit just use your points. All the best to you, Leila