No late night "junk"snacking - March 8 - 14

Thank you lulabellewoowoo and rosemary10 for your support. This challenge makes all the difference. Like miss alias, I've been hiding up in my bedroom watching TV at night. That routine is really helping because I've made it through 9 nights in a row. Now, if I could just bring that same discipline to the rest of my day and lower my calories and junk food eating. :grumble:
Good luck everyone!
Zaza

dewdrop - I don't think we are defined by our messups but more by our progress. We have these great goals that we are making progress towards. Over time we keep improving bit by bit. An occasional messup can be expected. It's the general upward trend of our habits that gets us to our destiny. We didn't get in these health/diet/weight problems overnight. Perfection isn't the goal and I don't think it's even possible. If we want to get lasting results we need to change our thinking about food and ourselves. If our goals are only external ie. "to make us look better", good though they are they won't carry us very far. You have been doing really great and had MUCH success. You have helped the rest of us. You are successful not perfect, and this won't keep following you. Now snap out of it.

Someone (I don't recall who) said,
" sow a thought reap an action, sow an action reap a habit, sow a habit reap a character, sow a character reap a destiny"

Sorry dewdrop for being a bit overbearing. Cool new goal though.

I'm 3/7 this week

Sorry dewdrop for being a bit overbearing. Cool new goal though.

Not at all!!! I read your text a few times, because I really liked it .

And, to prove it: I've got 2 nights down now.

I'm stil going strong. I just have to remember to pay attention to the clock over the week-end. i almost blew it last night because we went out to dinner. So far, it's 11 nights in a row. yeah! (the only thing I'm doing right:ohwell: )

I'm on night 5 out of 6. Been kinda sick with sore throat, cough and headache. Just gonna rest up and hope I'm good enough to work on Sun. nite

lulabelle - love the smiley devouring the choc bunny and cute that your son ate up your grapes. You're a smart mom - that just might help him when he's an adult and wants to get healthy.

Good job dewdrop, zaza and teetee!

jeh - don't you just love those aha moments? It seems that MFP (my fitness pal) does that to a person. It does that to me. Plus you get the benefit of other people's insights.

Hi,

What is the challenge? Is it not to eat junk food in the evenings for all week long? I tell you what is great. I crave chocolate sometimes and crisps and I've started eating a packet of Kelloggs Special K Minis in chocolate flavour. They're great for nibbling and only 99 calories per packet. They go fast though if you don't take your time and nibble them but they're great and filling and chocolatey! X

What is the challenge? Is it not to eat junk food in the evenings for all week long?

The challenge is rather to not sabbotage ourselves by doubling the caloric intake in the evening .

It's cute to see how each week we have one person that gives us tips as to what they eat in the evening to cope with the cravings. When I first started this, I had in mind the following situation: I usually start with an apple after dinner (really healthy). Then the apple makes me hungry and I want something salty. From that point onwards, it's a downhill road. So my strategy is: NOTHING past dinner, water and tea excluded. Not saying that's the only road there is, but this is working for me and it turns out the next morning that I was fine without the apple.