I've only "slipped" once in almost 17 months and here's my story:

Let’s face it, we can give ourselves “permission” to go off plan for a multitude of reasons. I didn’t say they were good reasons. Brings to mind the Thanksgiving Fiasco of 2013 -- where I gave myself permission to go off plan whilst the DD and the DSIL were visiting over the holidays. I had 3 days of reverting back to “Fat Jo” and her destructive eating behavior and gained 9 pounds!!! Holy HANNAH, it took me 6 days to lose those 9 pounds! I felt so stupid that I had given myself permission with the guarantee that I would go back to eating clean right afterwards -- which I did, Thank God! Why did I give myself permission? Well, I had lost 105 pound by then. Seems like a good reason, looking back now, it was so stupid!! But LESSON LEARNED -- the hard way! I've been 100% to plan with that one and only fiasco because I understand now that I am a recovering morbidly obese carb addict.

Wishing all of us continued success in our personal LC WOE journeys!