Avoiding Temptation

[shari_dawn]

So I got this new scale which said I was now 12 lbs heavier which is exactly what I weighed 32 days ago when i restarted my diet. I got discouraged and remembered that other cream cheese frosted cinnamon roll from the bakery I bought the other day when I was sick and desperate. I'm on my second day clean right now and didn't want to flub up again so my poor kids got the cinnamon roll. Poor things... what will they ever do with a poor excuse for a mother who gives them junk food that they always ask for but never get. Ha

[hawkeyelinn]

Congrats on the 2 days of clean eating. Jumping back on the wagon is always a good thing. As for the scale, I always take what the scale says with a grain of salt. My personal digital scale measures me 6lbs lighter than my parents' digital scale... it's only a two hours drive to my parents and I don't think I can gain 6lbs in 2 hours not eating or drinking anything. Frustrating none the less though. lol

As for the cinnamon rolls and the kids... lol. Been there and done that myself... it's hard to avoid temptation when the mood strikes and then there's that guilty conscience when you give the stuff to someone else to get unhealthy on! Either I toss whatever I accidently buy in a dumpster before I get home, or hand it off to someone else who I know is adamantly anti-atkins and don't feel as guilty giving trash to (one man's trash is another man's treasure, afterall).

Temptation is so hard. Sometimes it feels like I'm about to pull my own teeth when I force myself to toss something, but my body feels better for it in the end and in the trash it can't hurt anyone else's either.

[Desertthorn]

congratulations on fighting off the cravings. It will get better.

[Franklin Lee]

be STRONG and HARDCORE for 7 to 10 days... after that(if that long maybe more like 3 to 5) you really wont have to fight the cravings anymore, they'll just be gone