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MinuitMinuet wrote: »

Don't panick over one bad day and assume you just ruined the week or month. If it stretches into two days, don't punish yourself. Watch your totals. Keep it under maintenance for the week if that's all you can do. You don't have to lose by the pounds.. it's still a loss to lose by the points. And measure every month. Sometimes a plateau is only a scale thing.. not a fat loss thing.

Don't bring in foods you know you will go crazy over. Try to look for low calorie solutions to favorite foods if you can stand them. Like shrimp alfredo? How bout over broccoli instead of pasta? If you prefer pasta, don't cook the whole box. Pull out just what you need and fill up on veggies. Bulk out the rest with veggies or mushrooms.

1200 calories a day isn't necessary for weight loss. If your maintenance is 2400, you lose weight if you stay under it. 2300 a day would lose you .2 pounds. Not a lot but you didn't ruin anything. And if you average above maintenance for the week, your month is not ruined. Let each day be a renewing of your mind. You slipped on Monday? Tuesday is your first day. You slip again? Wednesday is your first day. Keep to that mentality and you won't give up. Each day is boot camp and you are in training to see what works and what to avoid.

Note the foods that have feeling satiated through the day. You don't need to live on salads. Meat and eggs can keep you full longer. Write down anything that kept you full longer and then keep those on hand. We just had Tuscan chicken over broccoli last night. It was amazing in flavor. 360 calories and I was stuffed. That is going into my "must have again" book with my shrimp alfredo over veggies (320 calories) and meat and mushrooms over zoodles (280 calories)..

I love this entire comment, but the bolded in particular bears repeating. People talk a lot about motivation: how to get motivated to start, how to get motivated to pick oneself up after a day eating above your goal, how they're going to start doing x/y/z just as soon as they can find the motivation to do it. If you're spending a lot of time trying to find motivation, you're really just spinning your wheels and not doing anything. Pick things that you can do and do them immediately. Don't wait for the first of the month or Monday or even tomorrow morning - if you can do something right now, you're immediately better off. And if all you can do right now is to repeat whatever you did yesterday, then that's great too. That's not to say you can't set goals, just don't let yourself use waiting for motivation as an excuse.