#6 100 Day Goal - Abstainance from Obvious Sweets - Want to Join? Please Do!

[dave47]

As of May 17th:

CALI -91
JACK -6
MIKE -6
CONEZ -3
ROXIE -2
NINA -1
DAVE

on hiatus

ANANDA
BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
ODAAT
PONY
SUGAR MAGNOLIA

[dave47]

Sorry for not posting the count yesterday but I fell asleep. I worked about 35 hours from Thursday morning until Saturday morning and as my daughter had gone out and my wife was working, I couldn't get hardly any rest with my boy on the rampage. We went out and met up with the others later and after dinner I went for a rest but crashed out for 11 hours. I think my body was saying that it needed some sleep.
Up bright and early today, it has rained and been grey for the last couple of days but it looks nice and sunny this morning. I will try and raise my daughter to see if she will come for a run with me but either way I am going out.
Cali(sharkbait), your post was full of suspense and I hope you are okay.
Don't worry about discouraging anyone Nina, your posts can only be beneficial.
Isn't it strange that if we eat something we shouldn't we write off the day as if that is an excuse to eat all around. The promise being that we will start afresh tomorrow.
It only takes a second, hope you are okay today as well Nina.
Best wishes to all.

[Pony]

Congrats to this thread. It has reached over 500 posts on it once again. So we have now embarked on #6.

Thread #5 is available for viewing up in the stickie posts above.

Lets keep up the good job

[cali]

Nina:
I again want to say that I hope that I haven't really discouraged anyone here, because it really isn't worth it. I wish that I hadn't eaten anything with sugar. So here I go again. I'll keep trying again & again until I get it right. I really do want to feel good again & healthy. Thanks for listening.

(((Nina))) what I hear in that post is:

Experience-that you did it, and it's not worth it--
Strength-that you have courage and will try again
Hope-that you do want to feel good and be healthy!!!!

Thank you for reassuring me that if I fall, I can come back here and be accepted, no matter what!!! You helped me so much today!!

Dave--I see "sharkbait" and of course think of Finding Nemo LOL
either that or you plan on feeding me to the sharks? (I doubt that)

Today it is really nice again. I want to enjoy it but I also need to accomplish some domestic chores...I hope I find Balance!

[smiling jack]

Nina....ditto for me on what Dave and Cali say...keep coming back. I cannot stay OS sober by myself.

The weekend has been OS good...and for that I am grateful. I am hopeful for clear thinking today, to abstain from my errant ways...and I am willing to ask my HP for help ridding me of my charactor defects....Take care all.

[cali]

I need to remind myself to stay in the today....it's so easy to find myself whisked away from that very simple, not always easy, but CRUCIAL (for me) principle..

I ate too much last night and felt really sick..so sick I had to just go to bed early..I hope I don't do that again. I didn't eat anything "bad" I just ate too much of this and that. I had weird dreams too. I think I have a food hangover?

Today I will really try to stay on track, and stay in the day!

[smiling jack]

I had a choice last night after a card game...nothing, sherbert, or toffee ice cream. I binged on the last one. Dave, please reboot me to Day 2. Thank you.

I am going to leave the house and run at 6AM. I wished I hadn't binged last night...my stomach feels bloated...and I know I gave into at least three temptations...one...to fill the hole in the sole with a high sugar content "food"...two....that it was OK for me to have just a little because it really wasn't an OS...and three...that once I did binge...I didn't need to be honest about with another human being.

Well, l must get honest with my addictions with me and you...I will try again today to be OS freee. Thank you for being here for me.

[dave47]

As of May 18th:

CALI -92
MIKE -7
CONEZ -4
ROXIE -3
JACK -2
NINA -2
DAVE

On hiatus

ANANDA
BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
ODAAT
PONY
SUGAR MAGNOLIA

Best wishes all.

[cali]

(((Jack)))

For me, if I don't get honest I may as well pack it in now!
Good job on "pulling your covers"

[ananda]

I can't believe I am sitting here waffling over 3 peices of toffee! It's really hard to walk past a candy dish everytime I leave and enter the office. OK - there are 3 doors...I need to use a different door.

This is hard.

[cali]

Hi ananda-
Yes, that is a toughie! Using another door sounds like a great step to not be tempted by that dang candie dish!! I work on the second floor of a building that my boss owns. I found out recently that they are opening a liquor store on the ground level...I hope the other back entrance will still be available because I don't want to walk by it twice a day if I don't need to...
You can do it!! Good job for checking in!

[cali]

another benefit of no sugar is I know I won't do more damage to my teeth by over consumption of it...I have had a lot of work done to my teeth..I went for a cleaning today..no cavaties but a hairline crack in one of my front crowns

wow-I am thinking of all the garbage I used to eat....like all the time......
just for today, I don't have to eat things that are bad for me, and make me feel bad inside---that could all change when I leave the office....if it does, I'll come here and let it out before taking it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cali]

I also have to also say that there is one woman that I know that is really on the same path we are and is really "gung ho" about it and has been for "years"....I remember rolling my eyes inside sometimes when she spoke....I didn't mean to, and I really like her, just sometimes I did NOT want to hear it....
if I get over bearing you guys let me know ok?? I mean if there are eye balls rolling, I wanna know about it LOL

[dave47]

As of May 19:

CALI -93
MIKE -8
CONEZ -5
ROXIE -4
JACK -3
NINA -3
DAVE

On hiatus:

ANANDA
BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
ODAAT
PONY
SUGAR MAGNOLIA

Best wishes all.

[dave47]

You won't get overbearing, don't worry about that Cali.Just a few days until the 100 and when I first joined this thread you were in a similar position. So with no alcohol or cigarettes and the huge amount of OS free days in the last year, you are doing fantastic Cali. What about the coffee? Is that still off limits?
I was supposed to pick up my new bike today but when I got there they didn't have it. I planned to cycle to my boys school to get him, and then walk home with him from there. Instead I had to get the bus so I wasn't best pleased.
Eaten pretty good so far, if I have any sense I will get an early night as I have an early start in the morning. Best wishes one and all.

[cali]

thanks Dave-I appreciate the support!
I gave up caffeine completeyl for about 3.5 months. I had to-it was messing with by hunger levels, making it very difficult to abstain...but I found that I still was on the sugar. I gave up the sugar and junk for a few weeks--then when it was totally purged out of my system I gradually brought coffee back into by life. I LOVE COFFEE!
I am able to drink it and not have it jeopardize my abstinecce, thankfully...cause like I said, I really do enjoy it! I make sure I eat properly in the AM that I'm fine!
Sorry you didn't get your bike--hopefully you will soon!! Have a restful evening!

[cali]

I do so well during the day but I get home and I am really hungry. Have to eat more during the day I guess. Here we go with another day!

[ananda]

yeah - eating small meals 4 times a day seems to help....but I need to be committed too.....working on it and reading this daily...

Thanks all of you for sharing. Can anyone share about a time when they wanted a sweet and what they did to get past it?

[smiling jack]

Sure Ananada...When we are at someone's home...and they brought out a "special" dessert...the temptation is there...my "need to please" level is raised...and I am nervous about what to do...and the words "No, thanks." feel out of my mouth quivering.

I thought I knew they were ready to laugh at me...that they were ready to stop what else they were doing to watch that I did eat it...and that they would be satisfied then.

But what really happened is that what I did....did not matter to them...or anyone else.

Dave, maybe you can help the bike shop understand the aggrivation they put you through...by suggesting a policy of phoning someone like you when the product comes in so someone like you doesn't waste their time and effort on a useless trip. And for your suggestion, what if they gave you a "freebee" on your new bike like a speedometer or something else...so you will keep coming back to them...and not go somewhere else to find someone who values your time and effort? It p*sses me off when I am taken for granted by someone I am paying hard-earned money to.

[roxiestone]

Please place me on hiatus for a few days. I need to take some time to figure out what is triggering this overwhelming need to self-soothe. It's time that I do some serenity work - figure out what's up with me, figure out what I can change and figure out what I can't.

I'm trying to view this resurging desire as my inner self telling me that things aren't quite right, rather than as a character flaw and that I am weak. There is an underlying issue and I need to deal with that, openly and directly.

[cali]

ananda:
Can anyone share about a time when they wanted a sweet and what they did to get past it?

For me, I have to "think it all the way through" just like I think a drink all the way through....I know if I start wiht the sweets, I won't want to stop...I HATE myself when I do it...."hate" is such a strong ugly word but that's where it brings me.
It was passed on to me that "it's easier to say no the first then the second"

And boy--that sure has rung true for me in many areas of my life...

I try and really think about each thing that goes in my mouth...I know right away if I shouldn't, that's when I play the "all the way through tape"..

Keep it one food choice at a time....

[Nina Kay]

Wow Roxie. I really like how you're thinking about dealing with this. I think that you are so right about it being something that's going on with you that is triggering this. I'm so impressed that you've remembered to think that way and work through it, so that you can get to the root of the problem instead of just working on the symptoms & effects of it. You are so wise.

[dave47]

As of May 20th:

CALI -94
MIKE -9
CONEZ -6
JACK -4
NINA -4
DAVE

On hiatus:

ANANDA
BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
ODAAT
PONY
ROXIE
SUGAR MAGNOLIA

[dave47]

Sorry to start you off on one Jack. I've got this agreement where I don't pay any tax on the bike so I get it cheaper. It's been arranged through work so I can't go anywhere else. If I can squeeze it in tomorrow inbetween collecting my girl from her Sports Day and my boy from school then I will try again.
Best wishes Roxie and everyone.

[smiling jack]

I am OK today. Take care all.