Dutch, thank you sweetie poo
"Pluck"? I like that. Makes me feel like a Girl Friday from the 40's...
Let's set our caps, and get this done!
For people wondering... Di & others... On the Full Fast vs. the 5 & 1,
for me, right now, doing the calorie math, it works out to me losing an extra half pound a week. Not a huge difference really. I would not worry about having that tiny dinner... I think it only amounts to about 300 calories unless you get food-crazed and ate a giant chicken-fried steak or something!
Really it's all about what you can handle doing... I am doing mostly Full Fast but I do toss in a Lean & Green once a week or so when I'm feeling REALLY hungry. Like after my recent gym-a-thon.
Biscotti lovers unite!
Boy, who knew that those little dry crunchy things would cause such a crazed passion to erupt? Maybe when you all hit goal, I can send you some of my Christmas Cranberry Almond special recipe hehehe! Thank God they don't do it for me. I mean, they're not bad, I'd certainly eat them if I had them in a cookie jar, along with some nice hot coffee... but they do not cause me to break out in a cold sweat and climb the walls while I bake them.
There are other things that DO, but describing them would be bad for everyone I think, heehee! Last thing I need is to go into a certified Food Rapture
Nancy, kudos to you for your vacation honesty, and hey, everybody lets their hair down now and again. Well, ok, except the one and only Guido! (If only we could bottle his magnificent resolve!) You will definitely wipe out that Hawaii flab-o in no time! I think fat is always hovering around us, like a sneaky shadow, and if we succumb... heck sometimes just for ONE NIGHT... bammo! 3 pounds! 5 pounds! And it doesn't just fall off in a couple days. (Umm... not that I know anything about this. Right! Snort!) But it does and then we can say "Haha! Beat you for another day, dastardly fat!"
Dutch, I think you are asking a lot of questions about planning and motivation and follow-through that only YOU can answer. What Guido did is tough, but he set his steely resolve and did not waver one inch. I'm guessing there is no "how" to do that, it just
is.
As Sylvia said with care, it is you that needs to figure out why you are sabotaging yourself. However you go from now on, shakes only or adding in that small dinner, it can work to get you back down, but transitioning will still be there waiting at the end.
I definitely sympathize with the whole food issues problem (I'm sure I have some hefty ones lurking in my closet.) But you need to get to the point of being able to
STOP eating too much and get yourself back on track, and STAY THERE... for your own sanity and self-confidence. The better you do with rallying your willpower, the better you feel... speaking from personal experience!
That "bad exit" you speak of can happen any way you come off this. It's entirely within your power to maintain, if you decide to do so. Getting your mind wrapped around the goal and SET on it is the challenge. You seem to have the fearsome craving to eat and eat sweet things, obliterating your hard-won lean and mean bod. Get down to the nitty gritty of why you are putting yourself through the agony of feeding that craving if you can... to stop it. Whatever it takes, find it and study it and get a solid friendly grip on it and don't let it overcome you. Try not to let your mind run a million miles a minute with worries or cravings or what-ifs, as I see you have a very nimble and speedy mind!
Let yourself be at goal, happy, and calm, and relaxed... and enjoy your slim and strong body!
Because we all care too...
YOU CAN DO THIS!