Whats your challenge - Ramble on

Hi out there my fellow Groupies,

I felt I needed to post and ramble a bit...Perhaps I am not the only one who feels like they fell off the boat and are being chased by the sharks while trying to get back on board...

John said it rightly - Week 3 has passed, into week four and I'm feeling WEAK in my ablility to stay the course...

I'm still making better choices and keeping up with my exercise...I've greatly reduced my urges for eating things that I know are triggers, I even cut my Starbucks fix down to once a week...All these changes have helped to show progress...I'm still losing, albeit slowly...The problem is that I'm feeling like I could be making so much more progress if I could clean up my act completely ...I'm still giving in to snacking, almost daily, and while the snacks are good things like nuts & prunes, I wish I could break this habit... I feel like I'm cheating, BUT on the other hand do not have the overwhelming desire I had as a newbie to stick to the plan and not deviate, no matter what...I miss those early days of post-op when I was gung-ho and straight focused on getting to my goal...

I am SO happy to have reached the success I have, but am still SO insecure about my ability to keep it...

OK, I'm done...Join me if you want to ramble a bit about what is challenging you right now...

I have to agree that the snacking is a huge challenge for me.  So I am trying to do better about planning them in.  I make my meals smaller and my snack more like mini-meals (focused on protein), so I'm still getting in the same amount of food/calories but just spread out. 

But I still have times when my meal doesn't seem to "hit the spot" especially at night.  I'm not hungry--it's more like when you have your mouth set for something and nothing else meets the need.  But I don't know what it is I'm needing.  Sometimes I think it is my monthy hormones wreaking havoc with me. 

I am taking part in a 100 day challenge and just this morning it hit me how much longer it is to be done--three months!  I know it is a good thing, but it didn't make me happy about it when I thought of it being the end of April before I'm done.  So I will have to rely on my ego (don't want to be the one who doesn't make it) to get me through.  Which, of course, is why I did it in the first place.