Re: Re: starting over after a bad day

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When I have a bad day or a bad moment, I am careful not to tell myself,

" Well, I'll just start over tomorrow. " That, to me, makes it too easy

to excuse bad eating for the rest of the day.

If I have a bad moment, I try to tell myself, " Okay, well, I just ate

that big bag of chips. I'm recommitting *right now*. " I find that

helps.

> 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.

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> 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.

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> > 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!

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