will power?

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Fear. Pure fear. I'm not a goody two shoes. Just scared spitless. Tight

pants. I stick my hands in the waist band & make them feel tight. That

helps when my brain can't overcome. At home, I can suck down a protein

drink. Can't always do that " out " as you describe here. If I have my car,

I have protein, but if I'm at someone else's mercy, I have to pull out the

fear tactics to scare myself into line.

It'd be nice to think that healthy eating catches on & does the job for me.

But it's not real life. If healthy eating woulda worked for me, I'd never be

HERE. With the hypertrophy on a body that never knew how to burn calories,

it doesn't take much deviation for me to wear my mistakes.

I'll take any crutch I can get to keep my disease in remission. I have up

being too proud to use it about the time I met up with the Peep who was

bigger than me.

Re: Digest Number 1723

> It has been a year since surgery. I am still wondering how to stay with a

> healthy eating plan on a regular basis and fight off tempting foods. Yes,

I

> try to keep them out of the house, I try to eat healthy but the

temptations

> of seeing a piece of hot apple pie at a friends house or restaurant will

> eventually give in to my eating several pieces and then it takes a week

for

> me to get back on plan. I can't figure out how a person sticks to a

eating

> plan...how do you avoid the sweets on a regular basis and never give in to

> temptations? Every day I start out with good intentions and before the

week

> is up, I will end up giving in to either a donut or a piece of cake and go

> through the guilt and feeling sad then make a new resolve to start anew

the

> next day which is an endless cycle and why I can't lose a pound. This is

how

> I got fat. After surgery, this did not change. How did everybody else

seem

> to be able to stick to a diet, or healthy eating plan after surgery when

they

> could not before surgery? What do you all do when you are tempted with

> blackberry cobbler at a restaurant or whatever that food is that will

> jeopardize your weight loss efforts? How do you get this willpower?

Thanks

> for any help, PAt

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