I had a very tempting food day yesterday. And I wanted to post my success in dealing with it!

My sister is getting married, so we went wedding dress shopping. On the way we stopped to do her cake tasteing. (oh god!) My sister and Mom, and all her brides maids sat there and ate cake for 40 min. I didnt eat any! Not even a single bite. I know that if I ate just a little I would be tempted to eat poorly for the rest of the day.

THEN we ended the day at my fav mexican food resturant. Again, I survived. I ordered fajitas. I ate the meat and veggies, avoided the ships, and the tortillas and passed on the marg's.

At the end of the day, I didnt feel deprived or left out. I just felt very proud of my self control, and happy with my food choices.

Way to go!!!

I am soooo proud of you! It feels wonderful to pass up tempting foods and not feel deprived! You know that in the long run you will gain more satisfaction from your newly svelte figure than the enjoyment of a few minutes of the bad carbs foods on your taste buds. By that time the taste of cake would be long gone from your memory.

Sunny!

Congrats, it's not easy to do!

I'm there with you. I've had my own non-scale victories and they are wonderful when they happen. I'm coming off a 4 day binge so you are an inspiration to me to get back on track. You've managed to stave off eating badly and I can do it again, too! Way to go!!

Congrats! The longer you do that, too, the easier it gets!

This weekend I went to dinner, where everyone but me had 3 slices of pie, plus ice cream, for dessert, even the two year old! I had a diet soda, and it wasn't that hard to do.

Congratulations on avoiding the carbage!!

Qmass is right - it does get easier each time you succeed in sticking to plan.

That's so great. I love to hear when people post topics like this. I wanted to cheat again tonight. I just kept remembering what happened last time when I gained back 2lbs. and took a week to get it off. I'm going on vacation in Nov. and need to lose as much as possible so I can't afford to be screwed up for a whole week.

Now I'm hoping to draw strength from you, for me tomorrow. We are going to a huge carnival that's supposed to be the best down in this little town about 2 hours away, and the food is supposed to be incredible. I think that's the main reason people go, all I keep hearing is the food is incredible. My husband wants to go, he's been to the town before and it's cute and the whole town talks about how people from all over come to this little town for their carnival that last all month. Soooooo all I can think about now is funnel cakes, fried oreos and boardwalk fries and how I can't have any. I just hope I can stick it out and not give in. I just need to keep telling myself how childish it seems, for me to think I need to have those fried oreos, and to show some control over myself. I'm gonna feel guilty afterwards and its never as good as you think it will be. Please think about me tomorrow. I'll be thinking about you. Wow that sounded weird LOL!

FRIED OREOS?!?!?!?!?! Nothing personal, but ewwwwwwwww! Doesn't sound good to me at all!

Good for you Alliegurl!! I had a hard time passing up good food at social gatherings last month - the whole month of July was a waste - I feel terrible for my lack of self control. Fortunatly, we haven't had ANY special occations this month, so I have managed to be "cheat free" and dropped the weight I gained in July - but Labor Day is just around the corner...Any good advice when you go BBQ at the inlaws and there is absolutely nothing Atkins friendly.

I think summer and BBQ's are the easiest time to low carb. There's always grilled steaks, chicken, burgers--all Atkins friendly. I marinate my chicken in low carb Italian dressing and it's wonderful cooked on the grill. You may have to make your own, but there's cole slaw and deviled eggs. Salads are great in the summer. I make an awesome broccoli salad that everyone scarfs up at my family get togethers and they never know it's legal 'diet' food. I even make "potato" salad with cooked turnips in place of potatoes. There's endless stuff that is legal in the summer.

Sunny!

Congrats on the willpower! I know how hard it is especially when it comes to the sweets. I had to attend a meeting a couple of weeks ago where a large box of custard filled donuts with chocolate (my favorite) were sitting so close to me that I could smell them! That was the hardest thing I've ever been through!

Oh do I ever know how hard it is to be right there at looking at donuts My grandkids are coming over tomorrow after church and will be spending the night. I went yesterday and bought donuts, candy and all the things a Grandma is suppose to buy to spoil them, it's a right I have

I am so proud of you! What helps me have the self control, is planning for the day - so bring LC snacks, and munch on that. Also, telling myself ahead of time that I wont be eating that food. I know it sounds weird, but when you tell yourself - maybe just a little, that often leads to "I have already screwed up, might as well eat everything". Let me know how the fair went!

Wellllll, we never got there. My poor husband got diarrhea more than half way there and it was getting so late so we turned around and came home so I never had the chance to give in. I think it really wasn't the smartest thing so early into my low carb eating to be going and tempting myself with some place like that. So it all worked out anyway.