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Veggies can get you through the night munchies. If you're hungry then you'll want them....if you don't want them then it's probably a craving and you need to do something else to distract yourself and re-set your mind. Change takes effort but it's worth it!!! Hang in there!

Hello Once & For All Pals! Where is everyone? Holiday I suspect. Lol. I've been busy with yard work this holiday weekend. One more day and I can go back to work for a break! A family member asked if they could use our house for a graduation party two weeks ago. In my part of the world it just started to get warm! We had not started any of our summer readiness yet. I'm glad to report after two days busting our butts we have one day to go and should be done! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! thanks twopaulines for the motivation! WE ARE DOING THIS!!

Hey, do not feel bad- think about it as yesterday was one day that you could anything. From now onwards, just watch what you consume and how much also. One day a week has to be a fat day.

Hello to all my new Once & Fo rAll peeps! Happy Friday. I hope everyone has some motivation today! I started doing this along with my fit-bit about a week ago and I've lost 5 lbs. Not much but better than nothing. I am doing something about it. I never used MFP before for group support just as a way of tracking food. I have found that participating in conversations and trying to motivate other people really does help me stay motivated myself!
Thanks Brian for starting this page. I've read a lot of people have problems with the late night cravings but not many suggestions to get through them. I usually have dinner then brush my teeth, nothing tastes good with toothpaste!. I'm sure there are better suggestions out there hopefully someone in our group will share them

We have a long weekend coming up so stay strong my friends WE CAN DO THIS!

I usually have 2-4 ounces of water - and maybe a very small snack - a little peanut better on a celery stick - something that makes me feel like I had more but not too calorie intensive, then if it's still a real problem, I go to bed if it is not too early.

I need some MOTIVATION. Uggg! After doing so great all weekend I hit the Wall...hard. Barely any steps for two days. I'm trying today but geez I want instant results. Is that asking too much? lol. Boy this is gonna be a looong week.

Hi friends I see your posts for motivation and I hear myself in each of you! Let share what I've learned and hopefully you will find some of this useful info.

1.) The honeymoon phase doesn't last long. The prepping, the hype, the self talk, the excitement over taking charge of your life, the daydreams of that fit ideal body.... This phase I've learned comes and goes. Trudge through on the days you aren't feeling it! Do it because you know it works, not because you "feel" like it. For example, I don't always feel like going to work.... But my family depends on it. So I go in day after day. With health goals and weight loss however, your LIFE depends on it. So show up every day, whether you feel like it and you'll see great things.

2.) Gorge eating is all mental! For example, when my mentality was "Ok, here's to starting my 'I can't eat what I want ' plan!" So what did I do after a couple of meals? Gorged!! And hated myself. Gluttony and gorging is no safer than any other form of self mutilation. I didn't see it for what it was. It is destructive!!
Remedy: start small. For example, merely track your food. Eat what you normally eat if you want, make healthy choices if you want, but log in. You will see trends and find areas for improvement. Then make those small improvements. Those things add up to big change. I once heard if you strive to be 1% better each day (that's nothing, right? ) then in 100 days you'll be 100% better. Simple, yet powerful. So take one meal, one snack, and one food and always ask yourself if you really want it and is it worth it. If the answer is yet, go for it. If no, you just made a powerful and life changing decision to walk away. And you're already 1% better. It then gets easier to feel in control and make healthy decisions.

3.) We have mentally trained ourselves to be the people we are today. So NOW we have to mentally train ourselves to be the people of tomorrow. By showing up to the gym, logging our food, carrying water, whatever it is we are relearning. The single MOST IMPORTANT thing about our journey is learning to live differently. The single MOST DESIRED thing about our journey is weight loss. Both are critical.
REMEDY: Sometimes the scale doesn't move nearly as much as we think it should. But in that same time frame, how much more did you learn? How much more in control did you feel when you made changes and felt all the better for it? That is success!!!! The scale gives a number... Which is a measley 2% of our overall effort. However that 2% feels like the full 98% in our mind because it's so desirable. When you focus on the 98% (life changes) over that scale, the scale will follow. It will have no choice. If we focus only on that 2% were missing the big picture so we become deflated and "give in." In those moments, stop and think about the big picture.

This is your life, your body, your journey. You can't possibly lose the weight the same way or at the same rate as someone else. So learn the process, trust the process, make sound decisions and you'll get there.

Thank you FreshCrayons also! Slow and steady is so true. I was in such a manic phase trying to get results fast, fast, fast! I burned myself out trying too hard. Even though it's only been about a month! I need to re-read my post about waiting over a year for my goal to be met and understand that it is not overnight if I take the time to consider others as they do for me I can't lose! The battle that is! I will lose the weight!! I try to remind myself as I sit on the couch watching TV how much better I feel actually moving and accomplishing my steps for the day.
Just get up and do it, then do it again the next day!

Hey Cindy Lou, I responded on the first page and thought maybe we could get some more input if I updated this message from 2 days ago.
I just started joining groups myself and find that once it's started there is a lot of feedback but then we forget to make posts and respond.
So all of the ONCE and FOR ALL peeps out there.....Let's do this! Motivation from others is so important to me!!

I am reading the post from TWOPAULINES over and over. It really makes sense to me. My honeymoon is over and I'm mad I have let myself gain the weight over and over.

I just keep thinking that if I had started to worry when I gained the first 5lbs or the next 10,20,50,80 back I would not be here...but I am here fighting back once and for all. I'm going for the 2% changes instead of the 90% that comes back faster then it went away!

Happy Friday to all! I hope everyone finds a little something today that will make a difference for the long haul.