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My guess is just like yours that it is from the withdrawal of the carbs and sugar.  Same thing happens when I eat sugar and carbs for a period of time and then stop.  I think it is our body telling us to stop eating that crap LOL.  Hang in there, it does go away.  

Take care.

I had another good day, not as good as the previous days but yesterday was still well below my daily calories burned. I'm not beating myself up over it, I still got my walk in and that's what matters. Today I'm focusing on water and calories. I really have to watch both because I barely slept last night and ended up eating breakfast around 4:30 this morning when usually I don't eat my first meal until around noon. I also tend to drink less water and more coffee on days that I don't sleep so I had one cup of coffee so far and I'm going to drink my 33.8 oz bottle of water before I drink any more coffee. Then if I need more coffee I will have some after. I will just keep going back and forth. Because I'm choosing such a large water bottle do drink out of I'm hoping that will cut some of my coffee today. I've lost some of my water weight but not all of it because my wedding rings do not turn on my finger because of swelling and my feet and ankles hurt from the swelling. it's bad enough that my socks are leaving marks on my ankles.

I did some emotional eating last night but still stayed below my calories. I'm doing excellent logging everything, even when I'm ashamed and don't want to. I found out yesterday it actually makes me feel better about my screw ups because I'm not feeling like I totally blew it. I realized that even having a bad day I didn't go above my calories where I would have normally just pigged out thinking I screwed up anyway.

I'm happy with my progress so far. Not so much because it's coming off fast but because I'm sticking to it and it's getting easier every day. The worst part was starting but now it's not so bad. Believe me though, it was HELL starting. I really had the worst time. I kept screwing up and it took me a good couple of months to finally start and keep to it for more than 6 or 7 hrs. Now i'm on day 4 or 5 and I'm doing good.

I've been eating saurkraut one meal a day (cut it down to one because of the sodium ) and it should be gone by tuesday or wednesday. I'm going shopping wednesday and I plan to get stuff to make a salad to last me the rest of the week. That will be comparable calorie replacement for the saurkraut and keilbasa. Maybe even less calories since there are so many in the Keilbasa. I just have to find a vinegrette dressing I like because I've been on a Ranch dressing kick lately and there are SO many calories in it. I'm so proud of myself. I'm doing good. I'm glad I got started, I'm glad I found this group, I'm so happy for the advice i was given about how to get back on track!! It's helping so much. The other groups have never suggested just starting with one thing at a time. That is so much less stressful than the all or nothing approach the other forums stand by.  It is also so much easier. I found that because the pressure isn't as great that I am able to do more than one goal at a time.

I can't wait until spring! I'm going to try getting my walking back to jogging in early spring and do a 5k in the fall. HOPING!! My asthma has been pretty bad lately but I'm hoping if I keep exercising and start loosing that it will get better. I can't wait until I can start jogging again. I loved it before. It was freeing and I felt amazing after each time. I would usually go for an hour or so. it was wonderful.

I'm hopefully moving in the next couple of months and it's going to be a BIG move. I'm on the east coast right now and looking to move to Oregon again. So unless I moved to Alaska I couldn't move any further away than we are looking lol. It's been stressful trying to figure out the money for the move and finding a place so I'm finding I want to eat when I'm bored or stressed. I'm trying to keep busy and not do that. But I'm more in tune with my body now and can tell that I'm eating out of emotion and not out of hunger.

OH, I also wanted to let everyone know that even without my water pills (which I'm calling about today) I am back down to 194! Yay. I think i will drop the other 4 lbs as soon as I get the water pills back in me. Oh how nice it will be to be below 190 again. Just 5 lbs!!! Ok I'm not sure if anyone has been reading these updates, if so I would love to hear what you are thinking or how you have done this or are trying to do it, but at the same time this is just as much as keeping myself accountable as it is about keeping everyone posted on my progress. I've been logging everything even when I don't want to and that's helping as well. It's even better if I log it right before I'm about to eat it because then i see what the consequences will be if I eat when I shouldn't be. Anyway, have a wonderful healthy day all

I have my certification in Holistic Nursing and am required to re-certify every 5 years. Lucky for me it's only that often.

The night eating is a challenge for me too.  

I'm glad that your re-certification paperwork is done.  What are you re-certifying?  

Ground turkey sloppy joe sounds delicious.

Congrats on the lose of 10 pounds.  That's great!

What came to my mind when I read your post is progress not perfection.  The fact that you've lost 10 pounds is progress.  You had a day yesterday that wasn't perfect, however, the most important thing is that you said "back on track today".  

To me being on track is having a day like you did yesterday and getting back on track the next day.