starting over after a bad day

[Guest guest]

Hello everyone,

Yesterday was not a good day for me. It was long and tiring and well I just

did not want to deal with counting points. I know this was/is not a good

attitude. So today I am getting back on track. What do I do with the extra

flex points? I can most likely me okay today with my exercise points and my

regular points for the rest of the week. Do I just make a category and use

all my flex points and regular points to account for the bad day yesterday

or just forget about yesterday and just go one. I hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

e

[Guest guest]

Journal what you can remember, BE HONEST with yourself. That's the best thing

you can do.

I'm having a VERY bad week and dealing with some issues that I KNOW I need to

get over, I have journaled every bite and stupid choice I've made, I'm WAY in

the whole flex points wise. BUT I've also patted myself on the back for every

good choice, I've also patted myself on the back every time I walked away from

the food, every time I exercised and every time I said something nice to myself.

BE HONEST with yourself and your journal. Going 'what the heck, I'm starting

over today anyway' won't get you where you want to go.

{{{Hugs}}} on having to buy a new car!!

Message: 1

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:06:24 -0500

From: " e Quilici "

>

Subject: starting over after a bad day

Hello everyone,

Yesterday was not a good day for me. It was long and tiring and well I just

did not want to deal with counting points. I know this was/is not a good

attitude. So today I am getting back on track. What do I do with the extra

flex points? I can most likely me okay today with my exercise points and my

regular points for the rest of the week. Do I just make a category and use

all my flex points and regular points to account for the bad day yesterday

or just forget about yesterday and just go one. I hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

e

[Guest guest]

Just journaling is important. The accountability needs to be there.

I had a relatively bad week myself. Every now and then we talk about

emotional eating on this list; I am an emotional eater, and the emotion

that usually gets me eating is anger, I'm afraid. This week brought

some challenges and frustrations (and some really good things) that made

me pretty angry, so I'm afraid I polished off an entire pound bag of Sun

Chips. I know I'm going to pay for it. I dutifully wrote it down,

though.

The big challenge is not letting my anger at my anger-overeating cause

me to overeat!

> Journal what you can remember, BE HONEST with yourself. That's the best thing

you can do.

>

> I'm having a VERY bad week and dealing with some issues that I KNOW I need to

get over, I have journaled every bite and stupid choice I've made, I'm WAY in

the whole flex points wise. BUT I've also patted myself on the back for every

good choice, I've also patted myself on the back every time I walked away from

the food, every time I exercised and every time I said something nice to myself.

>

> BE HONEST with yourself and your journal. Going 'what the heck, I'm starting

over today anyway' won't get you where you want to go.

>

> {{{Hugs}}} on having to buy a new car!!

>

> Message: 1

> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 11:06:24 -0500

> From: " e Quilici "

>

> Subject: starting over after a bad day

>

> Hello everyone,

> Yesterday was not a good day for me. It was long and tiring and well I just

> did not want to deal with counting points. I know this was/is not a good

> attitude. So today I am getting back on track. What do I do with the extra

> flex points? I can most likely me okay today with my exercise points and my

> regular points for the rest of the week. Do I just make a category and use

> all my flex points and regular points to account for the bad day yesterday

> or just forget about yesterday and just go one. I hope this makes sense.

> Thanks.

> e

>

>

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S. Crawford / http://www.mossroot.com

AIM: Buffalo2K / ICQ: 11646404 / Y!: rscrawford

" " We live as though the world were how it should be,

to show it what it can be. " -- " Angel " , Season 4 ep. 1

[Guest guest]

I have read these few post this morning about the hard and bad days

some of you are going through. But you are all saying the same thing,

that you are not giving up and are calling it starting over with a

new day. This is what it takes to keep on the sane side of things I

think, knowing that no matter how bad a day you have, it does not

mean you are chucking it all out the door, but trying so very hard to

get it together again.. and that is hard as well. I had a lot of

these when I started and still do have these days.. but it just makes

sense to me more than ever that I don't forget how hard I fought to

get here.

It does get easier I think when you have got to the weight you want

to be, because if you go up a couple of pounds or so, it won't take

forever to get them off again, if you tackle the matter immediately.

When I had oodles to lose, I had a lot more bad days, and it was so

much more frustrating to have to back-track then ,than it is now..if

I over-indulge at times.

So you folks hang in there, I just know that you have what it takes.

Because you want it so much more than you don't.

Just don't feel completely defeated on those days that your

off..because you will have so many more great days..it is easier said

than done I know, but you all deserve such a big pat on the back for

hanging in. And one day, well,,there you are, at your GOAL!!

My best wishes to you...Kallie

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In Serious-Weight-Watchers , Crawford

<rscrawford@m...> wrote:

> Just journaling is important. The accountability needs to be there.

>

> I had a relatively bad week myself. Every now and then we talk

about

> emotional eating on this list; I am an emotional eater, and the

emotion

> that usually gets me eating is anger, I'm afraid. This week brought

> some challenges and frustrations (and some really good things) that

made

> me pretty angry, so I'm afraid I polished off an entire pound bag

of Sun

> Chips. I know I'm going to pay for it. I dutifully wrote it down,

> though.

>

> The big challenge is not letting my anger at my anger-overeating

cause

> me to overeat!