I need a kick in the pants

I have been doing beautifully for 4 months with a new food plan and working out constantly. Now, these last two days, I started grazing. I haven't done that in ages. I know it's wrong. I haven't had any "not allowed" foods, but I am having too many episodes of and extra 40 or 50 or 100 calories here and there. Please be brutal with me. I can't stop now. Just because I feel a little bit better, I can't get sloppy with my eating habits. Somebody set me straight. Laurel

Hi Laurel, Okay. I don't believe that me yelling at you is going to help you at all. I will just give you some pearls of knowledge that I have acquired over the past 8 months. I wait to feel full before I eat. I don't eat just because it's there. In the past when we have gone to dinner and I have not truly been hungry I have felt guilty for eating when I wasn't hungry. I know that I needed to eat, and at that particular time as well, but for some reason without feeling hunger I didn't want to eat. I also tend to have a huge conversation with myself before eating anything. I ask if I need it, if I want it, would it be worth it, and whether or not it's something I would regret later. I am so tired after the conversation that I forgot where I started. As far as feeling good, just ask yourself if you don't want to feel even better. Think about your goal weight and how you want to get there so badly. After all those things going through your mind I can almost guarantee you don't want to eat!! Don't be ashamed, just readopt the good habits and ditch the bad ones. Donna

WHY YOU LITTLE FOOD CHIPPY!!! Is that strong enough? I don't know you, but won't let me stop me in giving my opinion.. What's going on different in your life? Are you bored, having relationship probs, trouble at work, whatever? Change it up!!! Fool around with some new recipes that still contain the right kinds and amounts of foods. Try a new form of exercise (speed ice skating, downhill, Oh sorry, the Olympics must have been on far too long). Seriously, I know that repetition or stress are what throws me off track. Take a good look at your daily routine, see when it is that you're grazing, and try to plan either something else to do or something you can snack on that's not all that bad. And anyway, 40, 50 or 100 extra calories a day can be burned off with a little more exercise, you're really not doing that badly. It's the behavior that you want to nip in the bud. Wish I could be more helpful. (((((HUGS))))) Holly

Laurel, I am new here so I have not lost very much. But your post brought something to mind that my father used to say. He was a person that exercised his whole life and he was very successful at keeping his weight down. Once I mentioned to him that I had not exercised for a couple of days (at that time I actually exercised regularly) and I was having trouble getting started again. He told me that he had started over 1000 times. He said that he started over all the time and that was the secret. Just start over. I have always remembered that and although I may not have praticed it - I think it may be very true. Nancy 300/290/150