Bend don't break

     Fran, your last post got me thinking about the rules we have arbitrarily placed on ourselves for this adventure and how they work with human nature. You mentioned that you had attended a family dinner and still managed to stay on your meal plan (GO TEAM FRAN!!!!), but that you have stayed away from the dessert table. I think this may be one area we might differ in our approach to all this. I have a certain number of calories allotted everyday strictly for chocolate.

                                                                   Secret lover.

    I know it may seem a little counter intuitive, but for me it's the only option that makes sense. If I were to ban myself from chocolate I know it would very quickly become the only thing I could think of, and I would eventually say screw it and binge. I have friends who can have meal plans that allow for one day of off plan eating, but for me that's just not an option. I know that on the one day I would just go too far and negate all the work from the days before.

                                                            You gonna finish that???

    So I built a failsafe if you would into my eating plan. Of the 1500 cals I can eat a day 200-250 cals are devoted to chocolate. Do I always eat that much? No. Am I calmer knowing that I have this cushion? Most definitely yes.

    Though I am very proud of you walking away from the sweets, I know that is something I could never do and I'm glad I've found a way to work this so that I wont have too.

Tara