Bad weekend...

I feel your pain. I just started this site this weekend and right now I'm more depressed than when I started! Holy crow! I've logged everything, and I mean e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that passed my lips and I was over my cals. Today was def not good...family pizza night. Done and gone threw me over the edge! But tomorrow is a NEW day and I will enter it head held high and lips held tighter than they were today!!! Good luck and here's to better days =]

Please don't beat yourself up about it. "Bad" weekend/days will happen. I try not to look at them as bad. It takes a lot to change old habits. Remember there is always another meal..or another opportunity to eat healthy. You are doing a fantastic job. Keep it up.

I'm not throwing in the towel but in the past, I've lost some weight, people started noticing & then I gave up, a little at the time. I don't want to be that person anymore.

Then you won't be. Have faith in yourself.

I had a couple bad days this week because of work commitments. I still managed to lose 1.1. Jus t start fresh tomorrow.

It must have been the weekend for roughness because I was terrible this weekend as well! Tomorrow is a new day and the start of a whole new week. One weekend won't make or break you unless you let it!

There is a full moon out tonight here over Charlotte NC. I think, no I BELIEVE that it's screwing with us all!! We all have ways of sabotaging ourselves. It seems like while you like the idea of people noticing you've changed, maybe you still don't believe you DESERVE all the attention or compliments you're getting. The best tip (besides logging all the food you eat) is to journal your feelings - just let it out. don't spell check or edit as you go, just give your self 30 minutes of pure word vomit and see how you fee. You're dealing with some issues you don't even realize because they're tucked away behind all these other things. Start writing about what you ate and how you feel, soon enough you'll be writing about someone who said something to you that you didn't even notice at the time and you'll put 2 and 2 together and have that aha moment.

Journaling your thoughts and feelings along with your food will help you see the patterns of what you eat when you're feeling certain things. This will help you replace those things (say fats i.e. chips or fried foods) with healthier choices. Don't wait for these feelings to manifest themselves in food. If you start writing instead of running those tapes in your head (you know the ones where we belittle ourselves for failing yet again, how we never do anything right, everyone expects us to fail so why do we even try, etc.) you will soon be able to replace them with the little therapist inside of you who knows what to tell you when you don't know what to say to yourself. Really listen to what's going through your mind, it might surprise you.

One meal, one day, one weekend will not undo everything you've done this far. You are aware - aware of how you feel, aware of how this food makes you feel and you are aware that you DON'T accept this life any longer. Love yourself unconditionally just like you do everyone else and then get back in the game and do the best you can. That's all anyone can ask of you!

I'd say get back to the realization of how much you truely LOVE yourself!!!!How much you need to love yourself, oh and lastly LOVING yourself.

Hope your week gets better. Get distracted. Do you have any projects. Something mundane. Arranging a closet. Spring cleaning etc. Usually works for me.