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Go back and read your post! Your thoughts are definitely right on track. I didn't take a week to gain the wait, you're not going to lose it all in a week. You seem to know exactly why the scales didn't change. Don't fret over, continue to do what's working for you. Get past it and forget about it! It's done, it's over, you can't change it so don't stress over it. Now do something today that your future self will be proud of!

Feeling a lack of motivation this morning. Thinking that the scale didn't move at all this week (disappointed)...but I know this sometimes happens. Also found myself on a cookie raid at 11:30 last night. What? I never do that...and the package wasn't even open. Usually that stops me from eating them. So I'm feeling pretty bad about it even though I was under my calorie goal yesterday. Here's to hoping that today will be a better day. One day at a time....right?

Just take it one day at a time. It's ok if you don't meet your targets some days because you really wanted to eat and it's also ok to not lose anything in a week! I sometimes don't see any changes for up to two weeks and suddenly I'm down 3 or 4 pounds! Keep going and remember, baby steps!

Days and weeks like this are part of the process, or so everyone keeps reassuring me, too! If it were easy, and didn't take any real effort, there wouldn't be so many people going through the same battles. For you it was cookies, for me it was happy hour with friends after a difficult and emotionally draining week. Beating ourselves up over it only makes it harder to get back on track. I'm not going to feel guilty, or bad about the deviations, I'm going to accept that I'm not perfect and that I have to just re-focus and keep moving forward. For me that means taking a long walk on the beach after I finish cleaning out a deceased relative's apartment this morning.

We are moving towards living healthier lives, not lives of total deprivation. As long as the binges and the detours are exceptions rather than rules, we'll all get there!

I agree with the others...let it go...today is a new day.....next time you feel the urge for cookies log on here and find someone to chat with....sometimes it's just redirecting our brains from old habits.