#7 100Day Goal - Abstainance from Obvious Sweets - Want to Join? Please Do!

[bruce24]

Okay... I'm back to 1 again... Had a rough night yesterday and drank a big glass of orange juice which to me is OS because I drink too much of it!! It wont forever be OS but for the beginning I want to get sugar drinks out of my diet so I don't feel good about saying I'm on day 3.

Anyways, gonna watch some Olympics to get inspired to go for a run this afternoon

Hope all is well for everyone else and yes thank you to ananda for keeping up those daily counts!

[cali]

Jack:
My self-esteem improves when I eat in line with what I believe is healthy for me.

So does mine....why is it SO hard to get back on track????

Bruce
It wont forever be OS but for the beginning I want to get sugar drinks out of my diet so I don't feel good about saying I'm on day 3.

Yes-it's a personal thing-and if It doesn't feel right, I'ver called myself out on it.

I am back to day one--I just can't do it. I have done it before but I can't do it now. I will keep coming here though. Welcome Frog and all newbies.

Have a good night all

[Pony]

I am having a hard time just getting past any "day 1"... I am doing alot of emotional eating right now and it doesn't seem to matter that it is conscious eating. I mean that I know what I am eating and realize why, just don't seem to have the incentive to not eat it. I should after; I've had all the incentive around me, but just don't seem to be able to put it into action just yet. I get up thinking each will be the beginning, but before I know it, I have blown it.

Welcome to all the newbies, glad you are here.

ananda, thanks for your service here, your are so appreciated.

[smiling jack]

Good questions on what or where are the incentives to abstain from OS...that those of us who used to have up to 100 or more consecutive OS free days...who now struggle to get a few consecutive days together???

For me...it may be the accountability has run its course for a while as an incentive. I feel lousy that I caved in today. What needs to change?

The list used to have the date of OS sobriety--

Mary - 7/15 - 30 days
Bob - 8/1 - 14 days
Jack - 8/14 - 1 day

That's one suggestion. Another incentive for me was to take body measurements and view this thread as a major part of improvements. I haven't done my body measurements in maybe 4 or 6 months because I am afraid I may not have improved.

Do I face my fear...or do I evade it or deny it like I have so many things in my life/

Any thoughts on incentives whould be appreciated. Thanks. Take care.

[bruce24]

Jack I like your idea about making some accountability for this thread... and the idea of body measurements sounds like a great idea to me. I have for sure extra weight that I would love to lose and think just a simple 5 or 6 measurements (private or public) would be a great way to see if the benefits of at least being conscious of OS addiction.

Maybe just get some guidelines for what and where to measure and leave it up to whoever wants to to just have a number in their head and to every 2 weeks or every month measure and post the total loss/gain of inches overall.

Other thing we could do is just have continual challenges that we can all mutually agree on of something positive that combats this addiction of OS. Like, if someone really struggles making proper dinners then everyone finds a recipe that takes 10-20 minutes that is free of OS and is delicious. Then we can discuss and take it further in the future and find other ideas.

Anyways, screwed up today been feeling pretty crappy/sick and need to be reset on the counter.

Hope everyone else is doing well. :ghug

[cali]

I AM READY TO GET SERIOUS AGAIN!!!!!!
wow that felt good to say!!!!!!!!!!

Today will be my sobriety date from OS's-8/16/08 for Cali!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks everyone for your support
((((((ananda)))))))!!!!

[ananda]

I can impute dates...if you want it on post the date between now and monday and I'll add them. Same goes for measurements or weights or whatever helps a person stay accountable.

For myself...how many lbs above or below my "goal weight" might be an insentive, though not sure as i'm more interested in focusing on the correction of the emotional problems OS causes me.

Like I said, just let me know what you want on the list for you and I'll place it there.

I'm OS free so far today, and don't have any feeling like eating it. I guess I'm a little blah about all of my recovery right now. I'm serious about this, but also feeling pretty good that some of the connections I use to make to OS binging are changing. Prior to this thread I would have been pigging out on sweets for 2 weeks now. And people in my life just don't really get it. They infact seem to encourage me to grab sweets as a feel better. And I know these people love me and support my recovery...it's like they have a strange mental blank spot too! LOL

taking a nap right now....later

[ananda]

As of August 15th (Friday):

ROXIE -18
LILY -5
JACK -2 (8/14/08)
ODAAT - working on 1
ANANDA - 1 (1lb under goal weight)
BRUCE -working on 1 (8/16/08)
CALI - working on 1 (8/16/08)
FROG -2

On hiatus:

BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
MIKE
NINA
PONY

[cali]

YAY!!
I am on Day 2

I am not beating myself up about "lost time"
I am actually really grateful that I WANT THIS AGAIN!

my *avatar dissappeared guess I have to get another.

Have a great day!!

[smiling jack]

Thanks A for inputting the date. I made a note on my calender to get the body measurements done. I have the last ones posted under another smiling jack thread in the ED threads...I'll have to find it...get the new numbers and go from there.

I had a great day yesterday...and looking forward to a great day today. Take care all.

[ananda]

As of August 16th (Saturday):

ROXIE -19
LILY -4
JACK -3 (8/14/08)
ODAAT - working on 1
ANANDA - 2 (1lb under goal weight)
BRUCE -1 (8/16/08)
CALI - 1 (8/16/08)
FROG -3

On hiatus:

BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
MIKE
NINA
PONY

[Pony]

This thread has been thriving along so well that it has become necessary for us to start a #7 one.

Keep up the great support and work here.

I have stickied the last thread at the top for everyone to continue enjoying it and reading through.

[cali]

still hangin in!!! I felt so lost a few days ago---I have just dead set focused on getting back on track....I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I could gain all 33 pounds that I lost in no tome flat if I stayed the way I was eating....as it stands I gained 10 of it back....HALT thankfully happened before going into oblivion...this is day 2 and I know I'll make it into 3....PHEW!

[cali]

thank you Pony!

[Frog_2hop]

Well, I did poorly this weekend. I got my kids back after they were gone for a week and we stopped for icecream! That was a very quick 'justification' for me. Then we went to an annual gathering with friends from all over the place. We 'shared' meals for everything and, again, I justified that avoiding OS was out of my control. My mind knows better - my struggles with OS are very clever!!! So....Monday will be day one AGAIN!

[ananda]

I saw a show once on heart problem people who had to change diet, add excersies and something else...but it ends up that eating is the hardest thing to change as so much social activity is centered around food in our societies.

It helps after a while when people get use to it. My friend the other nite said "do you do blueberry muffins"...it was so nice....if I said no she would have been fine.

So it takes some time to get otheres use to it too!

[roxiestone]

Good morning all.

I'm still hanging in there. Hope you all are doing well.

Peace.

[smiling jack]

A - had a small OS yesterday...but still OS. Please put me back to Day 1 8/18/08.

I am reminded that, in the past, I have delayed getting honest here...but eventually I did...I'm co-dependent enough that it matters to me that you all think I have longer term OS sobriety than I revealed. Getting honest quickly perks me up...and I don't let the white lie fester inside me.

I am going to check and see if thread #7 needs to be set up. Take care all.

[smiling jack]

Thanks Pony, for setting up the thread. I appeciate all that you do.

[ananda]

Sorry I'm late...overslept

As of August 17th (Sunday):

ROXIE -20
LILY -5
JACK -working on 1 (8/18/08)
ODAAT - working on 1
ANANDA - 3 (1lb under goal weight)
BRUCE -2 (8/16/08)
CALI - 2 (8/16/08)
FROG -working on 1

On hiatus:

BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
MIKE
NINA
PONY

[cali]

Jack:
Getting honest quickly perks me up...and I don't let the white lie fester inside me.

I hate that "nagging" feeling in the pit of my stomach....when I felt like I couldn't come back here...now I know I can. My recent slip after months of abstinence started with the justification of particular foods that I would consider "slippery"...then after that I just kept justifying....now if I get on a food regimine that I don't feel "deprived" on I will do much better... I
I know I have felt "deprived" over these past months...not just in my mind, but I WAS literally depriving myself of too much...

So it gets back to that good old "B" word lol

"BALANCE"

[ananda]

in a wierd space...didn't even think about OS last night ... to busy thinking about even worse behaviors....oh well...OS free.

I'll update the list later today, right now I have a headache, a toothache, an emotional hangover and have 20 minites to get ready for work...a 45 minite proposition.

Thanks all for being there...you are all my heros cause you just keep going llike the energizer bunny!:ghug

[roxiestone]

Feel better, Ananda!

Today I am working on dealing with my own judgmentalism and jealousy. Ouch! Didn't realize that these were some the driving factors in the way I was feeling about a certain situation. So today I am sitting in judgmentalism and jealousy and I will try to not eat in a disordered way as a method of dealing with these very uncomfortable feelings.

Peace!

[cali]

Ananda and Rox--
All that "stuff" you both mention are PERFECT excuses for me to "eat", and eat anything--especially OS's....that is the very "stuff" that need to see talked about here....not just "did you, or didn't you"....what I am trying to say is that it makes me feel like others DO understand the everyday events that make up our day, or that can make or break abstinence....thanks everyone for sharing....

I am still OS free...although I had 2 cereal bars yesterday...that can be dangerous for me....I need some ideas of healthy snacks as I am sict to death of the same old food here...would anyone care to list off things that you eat throughout the day that are healthy??

Thanks ((((all))))

[ananda]

As of August 18th (Monday):

ROXIE -21
LILY -6
JACK -working on 1 (8/18/08)
ODAAT - working on 1
ANANDA - 4 (at goal weight)
BRUCE -3 (8/16/08)
CALI - 3 (8/16/08)
FROG -1

On hiatus:

BARB DWYER
GOLDIE
MIKE
NINA
PONY