Sexy in Six Week 2 ***closed group***

I've got the Monday QOTD: So we all know we're all here to lose weight and we all said why we want to lose the weight, but how did you get to the point where you realized you had to do something about it and what made you realize this??

I went to victorias secret to get a bra fitting. The extremely rude woman who was doing it, measured my band size and then looked me in the eyes and said, "there is no point in me finishing this, there is nothing in this store that will fit you." She then walked out of the change room, and left me there half naked and crying about how fat I was. Never walked into a VS since... and I probably never will.

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

I am new to this, so at the moment I am learning to spot the challenges and the impulsiveness. At the school where I work, there are always doughnuts and cakes and biscuits and chocolates and homemade cookies 'freely available' in the staffroom. I am steeling myself for the new term because I know that feeling anxious, stressed, up or down, I walk in there and say oh I'll just have a little bit of this, or a bit of that, and as well, I can sneak back for some more later. What I need to do is be able to walk in there with an automatic machine gun and blast it all off the table! (Not that we have guns here, but it's the kind of furious metaphor that says what I feel!). Since I started this, I have popped undesirable, tempting items into my mouth - almost before I realised I had done it - and then the realisation hits and so I am trying to spit what's there in the bin!!! Or, one bite, the rest in the bin. I;ve also figured that I should avoid foods with 'ch ' in them - chocolate and cheese for starters!

Anyway, thank you everyone for your inspiration - it's so helpful!!! Have a good TuesdaY

:Happy tuesday everyone my computer and television got fried in the lightning storm last night so I'm posting from my phone. I can't wait to get back online so I can read everyone's reply to this great question of the day for tuesday
I have several tricks 1 of them is looking at the snack that I know I shouldn't eat and thinking "no thanks I'd rather be thinner"
Sometimes it's hard to get myself motivated or tour away from the kitchen Sometimes I find it hard to get myself motivated to get busy and distracted from cravings when this happens I log on to my fitness pal and read some blogs revaluate my calories for the day. And even if I've gone off track remember that I can start again right away.
' if I regain better internet access I will post more on this topic what a great question thank you so much something we can all benefit from reading!!! Okay off to drink some water

Tuesday; I look at my before picture to remind myself how far I have come and where I don't want to go back!!!

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?
Wow, this can be almost impossible for me sometimes especially if I'm feeling sad or lonely, etc. I think my best method is probably just to stop for a moment and think about it. I like to think "Now if I eat this, do I have enough calories, am I going to regret it later". Sometimes this works really well for me and if even this doesn't work then the best thing for me to do is get out of the house!!

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

I ususally try and log it ahead of time to see what it would be...if I have enough left I'll snack...otherwise if it blows my calorie count I'll try and seek something else that's more healthy. Other times I'll try and have 1/2 serving or something.

For exercise, I usually don't have an issue when my life isn't as crazy...I just know that I'll feel so much better once it's done!

PS: Water challenge = PEEING A LOT.

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

I have challenging days quite often I try to either not give in or keep it in moderation. Also, I look at my calories remaining to see if it will fit. There are lots of days when I crave the asian drink bubble tea. However, when I crave one of those, I think about how much extra I will have to exercise to work off the empty calories in a tapioca pearl. That usually does it for me

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

When I need to control myself, my favourite method is to grab my tummy fat to remind myself and if I can, I catch a music video of the "shakira" types, and then the temptation goes away. The same method works for when I'm on the couch too.

Monday QOTD: So we all know we're all here to lose weight and we all said why we want to lose the weight, but how did you get to the point where you realized you had to do something about it and what made you realize this??

This is easy: after months night after night binges and waking up in the morning feeling awful, fat, and grouchy, I literally found myself standing in my pantry stealing my roommate's food because I had only "healthy" things I could eat. I knew it wasn't okay.

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

I go into my room. My room is upstairs and the kitchen is downstairs so I can go upstairs, shut the door, and get my impulses in check.

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

I just think of how awesome I am going to look once all the weight is gone when I have unhealthy impulses (like Zaxby's, yum that sounds good).
I don't really know how I put down the snacks and get off the couch. I plan my day ahead a day or so ahead of time so it's not a do I want to go to the gym, it's on the schedule so I go. When I don't have a definite plan I find that I'm talking myself out of the gym, like tonight :frown: I just have so much pharmacology to study and am so tired:yawn:
I don't want to go

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

When it comes to food I have to think to myself, "Are you willing to burn off that one slice of large cheese pizza worth 290 calories? or Do you want to spend 30 minutes running for those 2 cookies?" This usually works for me MOST of the time, but it can be hard sometimes when your family brings home cookies, ice cream, your favorite Chinese food, etc... If I know my parents are going to buy fast food then I would quickly make myself a healthy meal before they come home so I would be full and less tempted to eat the "bad" food. As for exercise, it usually isn't hard for me ANYMORE to get up off my butt. When I do feel like I'm not in the mood to exercise I call my boyfriend and tell him I want to go to the gym with him and EVERY time I go to the gym I always make sure I do my 30 minutes on the arc trainer or elliptical trainer FIRST! Every time I do that I ALWAYS get pumped and do at least 30 minutes more and if we have time then I do strength training with my boyfriend 'til the gym closes. Again, at home it is harder for me to find the willpower and if it gets too bad then I call my boyfriend. He is my number one support system. He will call me every 10 or 20 minutes to check up on me and always tells me to never give up. If I slip he motivates me to work harder the next day. I'm grateful to have such a supportive person in my life, but MFP helps too because I SEE the difference in my eating habits and I exercise a lot more frequently since I started.

Wednesday?

Anxiously waiting for the Wednesday question too!!!

Tuesday QOTD: We all have challenging days. What is your favorite trick to get your impulses under control? How do you put down the snacks and get yourself off the couch?

sorry i am late on this

My favorite trick to get my impulses under control is play with my dog or take her for a walk, she is always in the mood to play so it makes it easy on me she always tries to get me off the couch and she is very successful with it lol...how i try to control the snacks is keep drinking my water or look in the fridge and saw eww no lol

Wednesday QOTD: What was the hardest change you had to make in order to lose weight?

PORTION control, and taking the easy way out with ordering food

WEDNESDAY QOTD:

Hardest change was definately portion control. I was always in an environment where u stop eating when ur full and about to explode. Now I check the serving suggestions. It's still hard when the only reason I'm eating is bc something tastes good but I get thru it somehow.