Good to see you, girl! Anytime is the right time to begin eating right! I want you to be easy on yourself about your goals, though. May will see you a different weight, but be good to yourself and avoid the stress of saying BY MAY. You can do it. You can learn to eat healthy, make good food choices and maintain a good weight! It just may take a little longer then 4 or 5 months. Heck, it took me 18 months to get to 117.
It's the little things. Small substitutions. If you cannot avoid sweets (I sure can't) then eat something that is not going to pile on the pounds and is still satisfying! Make your own low fat/low sugar cookies! I will post some recipes really soon. I asked YT folk for cookie recipes, converted them to my style of cooking/eating, and gave them as Christmas presents to my friends with notes telling them they were eating Low Fat/Low sugar cookies! You would not believe all the compliments I got as well as recipe requests!
Eating right is certainly not about deprivation. It's about making healthy choices. You are at the icecream shop, and everyone is buying icecream. In the case is the mint chocolate chip you LOVE. There is also a raspberry sorbet, and a fat free frozen vanilla yogurt. Do you WANT the mint chip icecream??? YOU BETCHA!! Do you choose a healthier but satisfying sorbet and yogurt? YES YOU SHOULD!! And once you get used to making the healthy choices, you have it licked. Your body and your doctor will thank you for it!!
I see Pat encouraging people to read from the beginning, and that is a very good idea. There have been lots of tips and hints along the way.
Have fun with this, people!! And Monica, PM me your stats when you get a sec, OK hon?
I'm still looking for comments from other people on how they are doing this week so far! ???? ANYONE???? (besides you, Pat dear
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