When I read your message, I thought that I was reading one of my own. Except for the smoking. Way to go on quitting. I am a total food addict and like you I know how to lose the weight and yet I still gain it back everytime. I even have a friend who lost 95lbs due to my encouragment. She came to me to ask how to eat and what exercises to do, but do you think I could kick my own butt.
This board is great though because it shows you that there are other people that crave the crappy foods that we do and yet they have lost weight and that is very encouraging.
Melody
I too encouraged a friend of mine and she lost 25lbs. How much do you want to lose? It's 11pm here and I just finished cleaning my environment- into my mouth. I feel sick, fat and bloated from my Sunday binge and when I wake up I'll be ready for the challenge. I will start to feel the cravings in the afternoon and I will have to fight each and every craving for the first few days. After that I will feel much better and wonder why I don't always do this. This is my pattern. I would feel great and just when my body was cleaned out and I was losing weight and feeling great, I would say, "Well I'm in control now, one cheat is ok". The problem is that I'm addicted to junk food and one will never do. It leads to a binge. Just like I can't say, "I'll just have one puff of a smoke", I also can't just have 1 choclate bar without having a bag of chips, a piece of cake and some icecream to go with it. It took me 7 years to kick my addiction to cigarettes and I've been struggling with my weight for 3 years. I hope that this is the time "I get it". I have a neighbor that just moved in about 9 months ago and she is very motivating for me. I am 32 and she is 53 and she has a body that I would love to have. She rarely touches a piece of junk, she goes to the "Y" 5 times a week, she grows her own veggies and herbs. She inspires me to know that if I was disiplined enough, I could look great at 53 as well.
I want tomorrow to be "a new day" and not like all the times that I've done this before. I'm tired of wishing I had someone elses body. I want to love my own. So I start AGAIN at 166. Goal is 130-140
Sherrilynn
