Califdreamer

What I do when I think I'm hungry is keep my hands and my mind busy. I watch netflix now because tv has so many commercials and a lot of them are about FOOD! no cable, no commercials! Also have completed projects I had given up on. It's a win win situation. Get banded, have more energy, get more done in the house, way better sex life and things I didn't have 'time' for. It helps when my tv viewing was cut. Never realized how much tv I did watch! Plus I drink so much much more water than ever before.

As for the "bad habits" well I like to think of them as different habits that no longer work for me. I need to learn different habits now. When I would say bad habits, it would make me feel like I was a bad girl for doing someting bad and needed to be punished (gain more weight). Then start the downhill spiral of being fat on purpose, not being good enough for whatever, being too dumb to know better and even worse knowing and still doing the wrong things, etc. When I changed my way of thinking, I changed too.

Each day is a new beginning.

Maybe it's because of my age or for whatever reason. I don't hide it except from my parents but only because I want to surprise them in August. They live 400 miles away and have no idea yet.

Anyway, first of all I would have down played it then probably would have given this co-worker a lesson on the different types of procedures. This way I would have been in control of the situation instead of giving her the upper hand. But like I said, that's just me. I know..I'm a control freak!

Go to work with your head held high and keep up the good work. Let them keep following their 'diets' if it does them good. My mom always told us when we were in school, the "friends" there are just school mates. People at work are just co-workers. People you associate with outside of obligatory places are your true friends. (sounds better in our native language! LOL)

hip hip hooray!!!! Congratulations!

Yippee! Congratulations!

You did exactly what you just did. You wrote it down for us to read. I just did this too a few days ago. Wonderful people here just told me to start tomorrow anew. Obviously they will help you too.

I too am an emotional eater. I knew from the very begining for me to be able to succeed, I would have to get my heart and mind just as fit as my body. I needed to get those emotions out. Personally I started with my mom. She and I could not stand being in the same room for more than 5 minutes before getting into an argument. Now we can last not just hours but weeks together! We are all different and you need to decide what's best for you. Emotions are hard as they have been with us for so many years. I have to remember that I didn't get to be like this overnight so it will be a forever journey. Same ting with relationships/emotions. I just swtched my thnking around and took up a hobby and go to the gym. Funny how now I see food and think of it in calories then calculate how many more minutes or even hours of running on the treadmill I would have to do to burn it off! Have fun and try to relax. It's a learning process that is going to take some time. Godd luck!