Major slipping

Try planning ahead... enter everything for the day first thing in the morning and make it a goal to stick to it. I have trouble with the weekends, also, but it really has helped me to #1 - not have the temptation available in the house and #2 - plan out what I'm eating all day. We don't eat out very often for monetary reasons - maybe if you look at how much you spend eating fast food, it might curb your appetite for that - it did for me! :laugh:

I am the same way. I do great during the day but evenings and weekends are hard for me. I plan out my meals each morning but sometimes when I get home I am so hungry that I just start eating and ruin all the good work I had done during the day. Weekends are bad for me too because my husband and son are always wanting munchie stuff during the day and then a big dinner at night so I end up munching with them instead of sticking to eating healthy stuff. :grumble:

I never used to eat breakfast at all, nor lunch most days. And I'd be starving by the time I got home and I'd eat all evening. So when I decided to change things up, I began eating a big breakfast - even though I thought that eating more at breakfast was counter-intuitive to losing weight.

But now I find that if I eat a good breakfast and Lunch that I'm much less hungry in the evenings. On most days (not including TOM) I'm completely done eating by 7pm - I don't even want anything else because I've eaten well all day.

I know it sounds crazy, and I'd not have believed it either. But now when I wake up I'm hungry, and I eat a good breakfast - I was never hungry at breakfast before.

Just a thought - your mileage may vary.

I really try not to have unhealthy things in my house, and try to buy preportioned things to help portion control. I also try tno to carry cash because I am more likely to splurge on subway if I have $5 in my wallet, but would never put something that small on a credit card. Also, if I do need to buy lunch, I only go to subway since I know I can eat there and be totally happy for 340 calories.

I never used to eat breakfast at all, nor lunch most days. And I'd be starving by the time I got home and I'd eat all evening. So when I decided to change things up, I began eating a big breakfast - even though I thought that eating more at breakfast was counter-intuitive to losing weight.

But now I find that if I eat a good breakfast and Lunch that I'm much less hungry in the evenings. On most days (not including TOM) I'm completely done eating by 7pm - I don't even want anything else because I've eaten well all day.

I know it sounds crazy, and I'd not have believed it either. But now when I wake up I'm hungry, and I eat a good breakfast - I was never hungry at breakfast before.

Just a thought - your mileage may vary.

I, too, believe in the power of a good breakfast. My mom, a nurse, says that if you don't wake up hungry, you are eating too late at night, and I've found that to be true.

I know in my head that I need to eat better but for some reason I just can't seem to stop myself from stopping off at Subway, McDonald's, Wendy's, etc. for a quick bite. Or going home and cooking something that is way outside what I should be eating.

Think about exactly what you are doing when you are shopping at these fast food restaurants. Sometimes having a moral stand is exactly the kind of motivation we need to change our habits. When we buy fast food from places like McDonalds, we are "voting with our dollars" for everything that those chains represent: inhumane factory farming of animals whose methane gas is a greenhouse gas worse than c02 and contributes to global warming plus their "waste" runoff seeps into the ground water and rivers and streams where it pollutes and eventually ends up our drinking water (along with all those nasty antibiotics and hormones the cows are injected with), plus the workers are paid a crappy wage and most the money that the restaurant makes goes to the corporate big wigs who really don't need it and who don't reinvest much of that money in charity or their communities. The food is processed and shipped thousands of miles before getting to the chain, releasing CO2 into the air. The cows are fed corn, heavily subsidized by the government, where small farmers can no longer compete against large agriculture farms, crops are heavily sprayed with herbicides, pesticides, and are genetically modified. Since cows evolved to eat grass, the corn diet causes e coli to grown in the cows stomach, which the meat industry remedies with tons of antibiotics, hormones, and ammonia filled product that they mix with the meat during processing. Then there is the issue of the enormous amount of waste caused by these places in our throwaway economy, everything wrapped in paper, bagged, wrapped in plastic, put in plastic cups, all meant to be thrown away and most will be. Everytime we buy something from these places, we are saying "It's ok, I support what you are doing here is some money to keep on doing it."

Shopping healthy at home can be more expensive at first, but if you do it smart, you'll find that it can end up being quite cheap, especially when you do things like buy in bulk (dry beans - you can make a lot at once and freeze them, brown rice, couscous and other grains, oatmeal, flour for baking bread which is way cheaper than buying from a store and tastes better - you can make a lot on weekend and freeze you'll have bread for weeks, nuts from the bulk section are way cheaper, cereal, etc) , print coupons and cut them from the newspaper, buying produce from your local farmers market, and avoid wasting food, ie if you think you won't use it before it goes bad, freeze it or don't buy it yet.

Plus think of all the money you'll save avoiding costly medical problems down the line!