Today I choose to ignore the 4 cheese mac n cheese with broccoli and sausage in the fridge and I choose to drink lots of water.

Good morning everyone, hope you are all having a lovely and focussed weekend. I had the above for dinner last night and I have zero guilt about it lol. I slimmed it down a little from the original recipe by using milk not cream and less sausage and more veg, but I didn't skimp on cheese. It was yummy, I didn't totally pig out I had 2 small portions. With the excercise I did yesterday i just stayed under my cals lol Had to skip anything sweet after dinner though but that was ok, I had a tea.

My son (5) is coming down with a cold and cough so not sure we will get outside like we planned today. I will get in a little exercise but taking a day off otherwise. He had me up at 6.45am sorting his room out with him to look for something! Only for him would I do that

I choose me today. The last few days I've been focused on outside events and people (funeral, nephews). I've let myself slip a little, not weighing my food like I should, having things I shouldn't, guestimating instead of knowing! I'm noticing the slipping before things have gotten out of hand this time. I'm choosing diligence -I will weigh and measure everything I put in my mouth, I will only eat healthy, nutritional foods!
Blessings:flowerforyou:

Once again Karen, I love and admire your attitude! Today I choose to stop picking at my daughter and husband's foods. If you look at my diary the last couple days you will see it. Blech. This is how I started to fall off last time. Husband hurt his back yesterday and kiddo woke up sick so our berry trip is off. Boo.

Today I choose to go for a walk and do my arm exercises at the gym even though I'm feeling tired and kind of generally crappy.

For about as long as I can remember, my peers have been mean to me about my weight. I don't really remember a time when I wasn't the "fat kid," even when I objectively wasn't all that fat. I remember envying my best friend in SECOND GRADE because she was thinner than I was. I was normal-kid-chubby. That's all. And I still felt like an outsider because of my weight. I was teased all the way through school. I remember my senior year, someone drew a picture of the newspaper staff to put on t-shirts. He drew me twice the size of everyone else, despite the fact that I was only a size 14 at the time. I was so embarrassed that I didn't buy the shirt. At work just a few weeks ago, a coworker (who is not a thin man himself) came up to me unsolicited and started talking to me about his niece who lost a bunch of weight -- showing me pictures and everything -- telling me how she was "an even bigger girl than [me]." The other day, I was at the gym on a machine and this guy comes up and tells me I should be facing the other way. I point to the diagrams on the machine that clearly show that you can use it facing both ways. I'm 95% sure I wouldn't have gotten that comment were I not fat.

I try not to let things like that bother me, but it does. It makes me NOT want to lose weight because it makes me angry that if I lose weight, I become more "acceptable."

I have had so much bullying and so many horrible comments in my life.. I feel blessed that though I do feel self conscious I am able to get in the pool.

Choices.. today I chose to pick a big goal for myself. And today I choose to stick to my calorie limit and eat healthy. I also choose to get some exercise in. Yesterday actually completing that 5K got me fired up. it was hard but I did it.

Today I'm making the choice to think about my choices before I eat and not berate myself if I make a choice that isn't the best. I'm also choosing to carve out a portion of my day for me. Whether I choose to use that time to read, go for a walk or work on therapy homework, it is time for ME.

I have been picked on for being overweight as long as I can remember. Some more blatant than others. It used to really bother me and I can't tell you the number of tears that I have shed because of it. As I grew older and reached my late 20's, I started hardening to the bullying and eventually developed an "I don't give a ****" attitude but down deep it still hurt. Recently I've begun sticking up for myself and giving them a piece of my mind. An incident about a week ago is a very good example. I often donate plasma at a local blood bank. A week ago, the girl (who I might add was no skinny thing herself) had no sooner put the needle in my arm when she pulled it back out. Since they can only use my right arm veins, that meant I could now not donate. I asked why she pulled it out and she said it looked like it was trying to clot. When I asked her what would cause that she said, "Obviously it's the fatty food you ate this morning." OMG, did I read her the riot act. I told her, "Excuse me!?! First of all that's very unprofessional. Second of all, you don't know a damn thing about me and for you to assume anything about me and what I eat makes you an *kitten*. For your information I eat a very low calorie, low sugar, low fat, low cholesterol diet. Just because I'm overweight does not give you the right to assume a damn thing about me!!" By the time I finished (because I wasn't quiet in voicing my opinion) I had the blood bank manager next to me. She was apologizing up one wall and down the other and I told her she needed to better educate her employees on how to be professional. A few years ago, I would have taken the comments and not said a single word and secretly hurt.

Went to the movies, watched beautiful people save the world and barely get hurt.

Went to fuddruckers for lunch. Because we were hungry and that was in the area and I was going to be able to make choices at any of the restaurant. I went with a buffalo burger on a wheat bun (ok I had a slice of bacon in it and it was delicious), could have gone with the veggie (i've had it before, pretty good) but decided I wanted to enjoy it. Had a few fries since we shared but after the burger I was pretty full so I only ate a few and we abandoned them without emptying the basket. Overall it went fairly well, it's not something that happens often so I decided to enjoy it. My calories for the day are fine, my macros are nearly spot on.