New to BFL, any advice?

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Tomorrow is my first day of the program. What helped you to stay

motivated? I know the first few weeks will be the hardest, I just need

to get past that point so that it is just my lifestyle. Please share

your feedback.........

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Well I appreciate the positive posts I received on my lack of willpower on

the weekends. I figured everyone would just tell me to try harder, that I

just don't want it enough to make it work. I believe I do give in too easily

and I should push myself through those tempting times, but it was nice to hear

that some of you suffer similar problems.

I too have kids, 2 sons, 10 yrs, and 16 yrs. I will not deprive them from

BAD foods. They do eat healthy a lot of the time, and understand the benefits

of eating well, and working out, but they do get cookies and cakes in

moderation.

So it does make it tough when I do have some bad foods in the house for

them. I try to buy everything in peanut butter or chocolate flavors because I

don't care for those flavors in junk foods. LOL!!

I don't start my free day until Friday evening and it continues on until

Saturday night, so I guess I'm not doing too bad. I usually have a good

Sunday.

I'm sure I'll do fine. It means a lot to me and I'm just being too harsh on

myself.

Thanks again for your support!

SHEL

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I get up at my normal time on Saturday, and do my normal routine, with the

exception that the gym opens later so I¹m running about an hour later. I

use that time to catch up on email, my webpage, do the bills etc. Then I

have a normal breakfast and probably a normal snack. Then at noon I either

have a BFL lunch or not, but after that it¹s a free for all until noon on

Sunday. Then I¹m making the food for the next week, taking care of chores

etc. Now if I had events going on both days of the weekend, it would

require a little better planning, but when I¹m just hanging out, that works.

It helps if your friends are into some sort of healthy thing as well. I

hang out with triathletes. You always get good portions, clean food when

hanging out with those guys. They even took it easy New Year¹s Eve since

they were running to the top of Mt. Diablo the next day. So I ended up in

pretty good shape the next day too.

> Alright! I'm using my son's new laptop and for some reason my mail sends

> when I'm not ready! So sorry about the 2 emails before this one. This thing

> is

> REALLY touchy and I've got my hands in all the wrong places.

>

> What I wanted to say is I find it IMPOSSIBLE to stick to the program on the

> weekends. I work all week and it seems easier for me to stick with the

> program during the week when my day is more of a routine. On the weekends

> when I'm

> " FREE " from my daily routine, makes it a FREE FOR ALL for the weekend and

> anything goes. It just is. As hard as I try to maintain my healthy ways

> like

> I do all week I just STRUGGLE to do it and don't on the weekends.

>

>

> Anyone else like this and can anyone offer some tips on what I should do?

>

> Thanks,

> SHEL

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>

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