Cheating...

Try some Vitamin D.

Really focus on today, and try not to look ahead. I'm always looking forward to "the month" I lose 20 pounds, and ignore the present day and binge all I want. The healthier you eat today, and the extra 20 min you add to your workout, the more it shows in the future! Stay positive, Rome wasn't build in a day. And remember, nothing gets easier, you get stronger!! Keep it up guys, this can happen!

Really focus on today, and try not to look ahead. I'm always looking forward to "the month" I lose 20 pounds, and ignore the present day and binge all I want. The healthier you eat today, and the extra 20 min you add to your workout, the more it shows in the future! Stay positive, Rome wasn't build in a day. And remember, nothing gets easier, you get stronger!! Keep it up guys, this can happen!

Wow, this is some great advice. Live each day for what it is....try to make the best of it. Give each day the attention it deserves and the long-term won't seem so daunting! Good luck, and keep coming back here.

38, I also used to do a lot of baking at the holidays and last year I finally said "no" for a lot of reasons.

1. I always eat what I bake.

2. It's a lot of time in the kitchen and a lot of opportunity to sample stuff.

3. I don't need to make cookies for people to show them I love them.

4. When people bring in treats to work or gift them at Christmas, I feel kinda sad and left out because I know I can't eat just one, and I hate thinking that someone else might feel the same way.

5. Life is easier for me when there aren't a crapload of homemade baked goods in the house, and I know for sure it's easier on my friends. I don't want to contribute to their struggles.

6. I'd rather spend the time hand-painting Christmas ornaments for my friends which they will actually keep from year to year.

5 is really the most important.

Consider scaling down your baking. Might help.

Feel free to add me as a friend (I'm a compulsive eater and struggle hard with it).

I live in Portland Oregon which is cloudy, raining, and cold most of the year. Tips for winter blues!

1.A good whole food pro biotic vitamin!!! You NEED to take vitamins!
2.Water...alot of it.
3. Stop weighing yourself daily...omg that is not doing anything but reinforcing your self sabatoge.
4. Bake low calorie and high fiber... it is possible. www.allrecipes.com
5. Keep posting and writing here.....no judgement...I dont know you, but it is all love and understanding!
6. Addiction is addiction....see it for what it is. Sugar and fat are drugs. I am 42 days not smoking....I cannot take a puff of a smoke, dont take a taste of goodies.
7. Walk, exercise, get out of the house, Even when it is cold, gloomy etc....exercise is the BEST for winter blues and making those cravings go away.

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/healthy-recipes/low-calorie/main.aspx

xoxoxox....keep going! add me as a friend if you wanna!
Shannon~

i struggle too i have fook it days where i just eat then i want to eat the bad stuff even more because i have a taste for it again. what i do when i get like this is try to make sure i only have healthy stuff in basically ive naughty stuff already. then once i get over the craving i get back on the horse and give it my all i like you exercise even when im not eating so well but id like to be able to break that circle of events too

Yep I get like this too. If I get a taste for it I want it even more. The longer I go without it, the better off I am. I think it kills the cycle in a lot of ways. I used to be a huge chocoholic. I could eat it every single day. Now I rarely touch it. I tried to eat some cake and cookies for Thanksgiving and it was too sweet I didn't even enjoy it.
My husband isn't trying to diet either. At first we would still buy his junk food and I would have to have it sit there taunting me all day, and we finally decided this time around he could eat it out of the house. Now if he wants something like that he will stop at a store or fast food restaurant when he is on his way to work or on his lunch so I will never even see it. It's helped a lot. Maybe you could try something like that? Any other thing I eat, even if it's not really healthy, I just try to make sure I can budget it in. It's not too big of a deal to me as long as it doesn't make me go over my goals. Good luck and you can get through this!

from last summer to next summer i have made some rules for myself. zero fast food, no store bough cookies, cake, candy etc...and very few cheat meals and they have to be something special. my cheat meals arent scheduled. im probably averaging 1 every 6 weeks. if i am giong to have something sweet it will be a high quality dessert at a restaurant and ill only have a few bits of it.

so far this is working great...i am 5 months in and losing 10 pounds a month. the cool thing is now that i so rarely have high sugar foods or high fat foods i hardly crave them. i try to eat a lot of lean protein and that seems to keep me full and happy.