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Today I vow to: ? Eat fewer than 1200 calories ? Drink a minimum of 80 oz. of water ? Go to gym after work ? Start organizing my sewing room after my construction guy finishes installing the custom built cabinets in there today - YAY! What are you vowing to do today? I did well with my vows yesterday although I hate when I go out to eat and I can't weigh my food on my digital scales. We went to a Memphis Bar-B-Q place and I had just a bit a good, pulled pork with half a deviled egg. I avoided the fried onion rings my manager bought for the whole table. Have a Terrific Thursday! DeeDee NOTE TO SELF: "You really only want what you are willing to pay for. If the price of attainment is too great for you to pay, you do not desire that particular thing or condition with intensity; hence you do not deserve it."

Woo hoo, DeeDee! You're early this morning. Early enough for me to make a vow of my own and actually have the opportunity to keep it. Today I vow: To get back on FitDay and start logging my intake religously. Thanks for getting up early this morning! Have a great day! WP

FitDay makes a HUGE difference in my success. It frustrates me when I eat out and can't actually weigh my food and have to make guesstimates. I'm sure I'm pretty adept at this point in sizing up servings but I just like it better when I can weigh the food on a scale. Good luck to you today - I look forward to hearing you accomplished your fitday mission tomorrow! DD

Good Morning DD! I have good news and bad news from yesterday. I kept all my vows and my food was o****il after I had gone to bed. I have been a night eater for years and it struck me last night. Sometimes I think it is worse when I am restricting myself. So not only am I frustrated that I ate in the night it boosted my calorie intake way too high. But bad or not I did write it all down so I can see it in black and white. I have never really figured out why I do the night eating. Think it is related to anxiety. I did not sleep well and it is self soothing. So I hate to admit this ugly stuff but that is where I am at. I got about 68 grams of protein, all my water, exercised 40 minutes etc. So today I will write it all down again at least 60 g protein 64 oz water connect with a highschool classmate By the way Dr. is sending me a letter about my labs but nurse called and all he wants me to do at this time is discontinue my b-12 and iron. Thanks for asking about that. Also I am gonna go in Tues and get some pics taken to submit for TT approval. I am about 9 pounds from my Dr's goal for me 15 from my own. He thinks he will remove about 10 pounds of tissue. Well thanks for listening. If I quit posting its because I am to ashamed of myself to share what's going on. Anybody ever been there? Lucy

Lucy - don't ever be ashamed of being human! I'm far from perfect and I really like knowing I'm in good company. If it helps you do just a little better, or make you more aware of what you're doing, then this post is for you! Congrats on getting started with the TT work --- that must be exciting. I'm still 100 pounds away from that process so I'm envious. DeeDee

OK...here goes. I vow to get all my all my water in, which is always a challenge. I vow to drink two protein shakes today. I vow to exercise today. I vow to be more active, and make good food choices. (That's my daily affirmation that I try to say many times every day. It seems to help!) Thanks for the daily reminder of support, Dee Dee! Joni 295/168/155

Another day on the motivational train..Toot Toot!!! Hi everyone! I think we're ALL doing an amazing job at keeping our vows/goals/committments. No, we aren't perfect at keeping them, but we are determined to to our best. If we weren't we wouldn't be posting on here daily. We DO want to be accountable, we DO want and need encouragement, and we DO want to be successful on our WLS journies. We ARE grateful for this surgery, we ARE thankful to have a second chance, but we ARE human and will have slip's from time to time. It's during those times that we don't beat ourselves up, rather reach out to anothers hand that is outstretched to help us back up. That's how I look at our OH brothers and sisters. I know when I am down I can always count on you all to help me up. Thank you my dear family. Yesterday was a busy day working for my girlfriend. I met most of my committments. I didn't get my exercise in, (I'm fighting a cold) and last night after church I came home and had a sandwhich, which I really didn't need but wanted. I asked myself what I was trying to stuff down w/the food? When we are honest w/ourselves, we know why. I pray today I don't give into the emotional eating. Today I choose to: 1.Get ALL my H2o in. 2.Get ALL my Protein in. 3.No Grazing. 4.Get some exercise in. 5.Enjoy my granddaughters first volleyball game of the season. I will be out of town through Fri. evening. I will try and post when I get back. My committment for Fri. will be the same as today w/the exception of the volleyball game..LOL...instead I will enjoy a movie w/my best friend! She really is a God send to me. Here's to us having an exceptionally, teriffic, abstinent day! Stay Blessed! Jeannie