Hi Everyone

I did great this week with the eating (almost). I followed Mme. Ronsard’s advice in her book, Beyond Cellulite: Nicole Ronsard’s Ultimate Strategy to Slim, Firm and Reshape Your Lower Body, and I cut out most added salt from my diet and didn’t really eat any  packaged foods. I stayed within my Weight Watchers points and exercised 5 days this week. What’s even more miraculous is that I didn’t have any candy between my 2pm – 5pm witching hours during the workweek. The awareness created through journaling is working.

I say almost because last night, I dropped the ball. I ended up having three beers and handfuls and handfuls of goldfish. It would be easy to say I don’t know what happened, but I think I need to take this opportunity to figure out how to prevent that from happening again.

1. Because I was out and about, I didn’t eat all day except for breakfast. So, I must have been famished, except I was so busy I didn’t notice.
2. I’ve been under a lot of stress at work and at home, so this was a coping mechanism.

Now that I have that identified, that I guess I need to identify what to do differently.

1. I didn’t journal. This probably would have helped me to become more aware of what I was doing. I’ve been journaling at work to break the candy/sugar habit, but I haven’t been journaling at home.
2. I could have had some herbal tea to try to relax. I usually have some type of camomille tea in the house.

I found a good link on preventing overeating on About.com: http://weightloss.about.com/c/ht/03/02/How_Prevent_Overeating1044888248.htm

http://weightloss.about.com/od/easyweightlosstips/a/bltips5.htm

In any case, these are my stats as of yesterday, 127lbs and measures are all unchanged from last week. They are:

Thanks for reading and I would love to hear your feedback!