Day 2 and I blew it

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Registered: 12-04-2000
Day 2 and I blew it
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Tue, 01-04-2005 - 11:31pm

What is wrong with me?

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Registered: 04-22-2003
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 9:02am

Hi, Laurie. I am fairly new to this board, and I want to say hi and don't beat yourself up so much. Sometimes, it takes a lot longer to succeed at something and you have to fail many times before success happens. It takes practice and changing habits a little at a time sometimes. Have you tried putting temptation way out of sight so that it's out of mind? Is there something else you can do to deal with stress like exercise or some other busy activity that involved burning calories like even cleaning the house?
I encourage you do approach Day 3 with confidence and positivity that today is a new day.

cheers,
slojuly

p.s. You have 2 beautiful daughters!!

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 9:28am

....and now it's DAY 3! Wo-Hoo!!!!!!


Hope back on the wagon Lori, and let's go.......


I can certainly understand where you might loose your marbles being a busy mom of 2 young children (I myself am not a Mom, but do have 28 children in my class....so I can sort of relate).


One slip up is not a fail- pick yourself up and face the world positively :-)


Have a Wonderful Wednesday ~IG

Best Wishes for 2005

Getting Fit In Your 30's
cl-vi_islandgirl

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Registered: 06-30-2003
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 9:32am

Laurie,

don't worry about sliping up on the second day - I slipped on the first. But if we were perfect we would not post to the board.

Take it one meal at a time. Do your best to eliminate high fat high sugar food from the house. THis will benifit everyone. your daughters will learn good eating habits young and not be draged into the diet cycle.

Take time to plan each day to enclude good food and some sort of exercies - take the kids to the park.

Stay positive.

Robyn

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Registered: 06-20-2004
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 9:34am

First off don't be so hard on yourself. Look at what you did so well. So you ate something crappy and you kind of fell off last night, don't let it ruin you, just hop back on with the eating plan today and maybe try to get in a longer walk or go a little longer on the exercising. 1 food failure isn't going to ruin you.

Try to shut off that negative tape that plays in all of our heads that we are failures and losers and weak because we give into a little temptation sometimes.

Just hop back on the wagon baby!

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Registered: 10-26-2004
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 10:55am

Wow, just read your post. I am so like that; if I have a "bad day" then I am a failure for the rest of the year and for the rest of my life and I will never lose this 20 lbs...

But I have tried to look at eating a ton of chips one day as a bad idea, and moving on from there to tomorrow when I will do better. Ultimately I understand that I will feel better if I eat well, not only will I feel happy with myself for sticking with it, but physically I will feel lighter and more energetic than I do when I eat bad food.

We all have those days. We just try to make them few and far between. I keep those things out of my house. I'm not a parent, but my sis is and I know she has trouble cooking things her young kids and picky husband like and sometimes she's just tired.

One day at a time though.

Lorie

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Registered: 12-28-2004
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 11:08am
No matter what, don't you dare let one bad day cause you to quit. It's not how many time we fall, it's how many times we get back up! Ok? So start today as a new day and know we care for you!
Ginger
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Registered: 12-04-2003
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 2:02pm

Thank goodness that each and every day we get up in the morning, we are given a fresh new start!!

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Registered: 01-01-2005
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 5:52pm
You are like me sitting on the precipice, hanging there, dangling, waiting to fall.....that is how "eating healthy" is for me. One thing you need to remember is that food will not make you feel better, your fall will only make you feel worse. Try to tell yourself this in times of crisis. You will only feel worse and then you have the feeling of having to start all over again. Which is an awful feeling. This thing we do with food is an old recording and habit that we have been working on all our lives, it is going to take the rest of our lives to learn a new way of coping. I try to tell myself, it is only food, it will be there tomorrow, the day after. Anytime, it will be there, it is not going away. So leave it for another time. I know how you feel, I have been there 1000s of times. It sucks!
It might make you feel better that I was surprise to see that this letter was from you! All the letters I've read of yours were very upbeat and positive. You seem to be ready to work of the issue, we all fall. We are human.
Amy
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Registered: 08-18-2003
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 6:50pm

Hugs,honey....I know completely how you feel.

~~ Steffy ~~
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Registered: 12-04-2000
Wed, 01-05-2005 - 11:30pm

Thanks everyone - I really want to reply to each of you but my computer time is so limited.

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