Life Happens

This post is for Emily or anyone else who has ever pigged out while trying to loose weight. It's okay. It's over. Life happens. I have found for me that I can't go to the grocery store on an empty stomach. I buy way too much food and it's usually the food that is not good for me. I have "Red Flag" foods like pizza, chips, cookies, and chocolate. If they are in the house. I will eat them. It is so much harder when you see food that tempts you. You think to yourself I'll just eat 1/2 a cookie and then you see the other half and you say to yourself I'll just finish that up. And then another cookie stares you down and pretty soon you are popping cookies and you say to yourself, "I don't care". But afterwards you feel awful. Emily, we have all been there. We have all done it. You need to forgive yourself and just move forward. Don't worry about yesterday. We are all going to take this one day at a time. We are all trying to change our eating habits which is a really difficult thing to do. Sometimes I say to myself, I used to be able to eat a candy bar, I should be able to eat a candy bar now. The difference is I would eat a candy bar maybe once every three months and now I want a candy bar every day! You need to find a good balance in your life. We are all in it for the long run. Yes, we are all striving to lose 25 pounds by June but for the majority of us we have a lot more weight to lose. We are going to have to work on this for the rest of our lives. So for now. Hide the cookies in the freezer, give them Cody to bring to work, or throw them away. You are doing great Emily. We believe in you and we all know you can do this. It's going to be hard, but we are all in it together. We love you!