Easter Challenge Starts Sunday March 20th!

Hey Everyone!

Sounds like lots of you had really great weeks! Lots of progress, still have about half of the members not weighing in yet so I'll give it until tomorrow night for them to weigh in before I post the list and add up our progress as a group.

As for me, here's my situation that I would like to confess and hopefully getting it out there will get me back on track, I've been hovering around the same 5 pounds for about 6 weeks losing it and gaining it back in different increments. During Spring Break, 2 weeks ago, I participated in this huge music and film festival we have here in Austin called South By Southwest. During those 10 days the free booze and food were flowing like a river with a busted levy! I tried to keep things under control but I wasn't interested in dieting or keeping track of what I was eating. The festival has been over for a week and I still haven't been able to get back on track. In fact I avoided phone calls from my counselor asking me to come in and weigh. I was up 5 pounds and I didn't want to go in and weigh until I got my weight back down, to at least what I was before the festivities began, but still I can't quite get control. Snacking is a problem, and ok I'll admit to all of you, last night I walked to the corner store and got a pint of ice cream and came home and ate the whole thing. :brokenheart:

I realize that I'm avoiding the things that work for me, like checking in here everyday and making myself accountable to you guys. Getting myself to the Y not only gives me the needed exercise but occupies my day so that I'm not bored and turning to food. I always have excuses but it's easy to justify them or even forget about it if I don't tell anyone about it. So anyway, thank you for reading, thank you for being there even if it is just online. Knowing that there are people out there just like me helps in so many ways. I promise to give it my all this week and as soon as I'm done with this post I'll be calling my counselor to make an appointment to go weigh in. Take care everyone! Have a great week!

Love ya!
--Heidi

Thanks guys, it's so weird, I know it's a different place for everyone, but it's like you get to a weight, that's not your ultimate goal weight but you start to feel good about where you're at and start taking too many liberties, ya know what I mean? Like I'm in a size 10 jean which somehow to me sounds like a good size to be in, considering that's smaller than I was in high school but I suppose these days with stretchy materials and such, a size 10, 20 years ago was very different. But still most all the clothes in my closet fit and I feel good in them, so it's like you said Sameantha, you get there and start snacking, and this is what gets me every time, I'm never going to learn my lesson and I will continue to yo yo if I don't start treating food differently, like it's fuel not treats or reward or comfort or even an activity! Well that's why I'm here I suppose, and I'll keep doing these challenges forever if there's peeps out there who will do them with me! Thanks again everyone for your support!

--H

I hope everyone is doing well this week! Stay healthy and positive The satisfaction of eating something healthy for yourself and knowing that you were good to your body is so much more fulfilling than binging and feeling the remorse or guilt later. Be good to yourself, you deserve it!