Comments on My Journey to Fit: A Forty-Something's Weight Loss Journey: Cookbook Winner!

Very good idea with the chocolates! It's weir...

2010-01-11T11:14:16.139-06:00

Very good idea with the chocolates! It's weird how sometimes it seems so easy to exercise portion control with stuff like that, and then suddenly things change and it gets really hard.

Congrats to the winner! Great idea about the bani...

2010-01-10T11:26:37.537-06:00

Congrats to the winner! Great idea about the banishing the chocolate - my major vice?? The sesame pretzels from Trader Joe's - I cannot keep them in the house anymore - even though I separate them into individual serving sizes, I just grab another one! :D

Hope you had a great weekend Shelley!

Great chocolate control and plan! I love that. Co...

2010-01-08T20:56:01.800-06:00

Great chocolate control and plan! I love that.

Congratulations to 16to8!!

Good plan with the chocolates... if you were in Wi...

2010-01-08T19:51:57.929-06:00

Good plan with the chocolates... if you were in Wisconsin you could keep chocolate in your car until May and wouldn't melt. Blah! I hate winter.

Yeah! I am very honored to be the winner! Thank ...

2010-01-08T14:29:16.079-06:00

Yeah! I am very honored to be the winner! Thank you.

I thought I posted earlier but I must have clicked something wrong in my excitement!

Excellent idea on the chocolate! I have a similar one - I don't keep cash in my purse. You see the vending machines here at work call my name. No cash, no candy. Perfect.

Cheers!
Trish

I ate 1/3 of a jar of Marshmallow fluff at lunch t...

2010-01-08T14:11:18.907-06:00

I ate 1/3 of a jar of Marshmallow fluff at lunch today. I told my husband that is now on the list of things I can't keep in the house because I have no self control.

I might not have won the cookbook, but I'll st...

2010-01-08T14:07:04.662-06:00

I might not have won the cookbook, but I'll still read and enjoy your blog.

Love the chocolate in the car idea.

Wow! You look great! What an inspiration...found ...

2010-01-08T12:57:56.576-06:00

Wow! You look great! What an inspiration...found you through POD's blog, btw. The chocolate thing is my downfall, too...I just can't have it around.

Good idea to put the chocolate in your car. If I h...

2010-01-08T12:55:38.517-06:00

Good idea to put the chocolate in your car. If I had chocolate in my desk at work I'm sure it wouldn't be safe so I don't tempt myself with that :)

I have THE prettiest little frosted and stained gl...

2010-01-08T11:57:31.404-06:00

I have THE prettiest little frosted and stained glass, oval shaped box on top of my monitor stand. In it, I keep One Hershey's Nugget for the work day. That is ALL I get. It works! :)

Great idea. Or put them in the deep freezer (if ...

2010-01-08T10:18:43.104-06:00

Great idea.
Or put them in the deep freezer (if you have one)
They get hard as a brick and it takes forever to eat them.

Awesome idea! And if that works...than hey, nothi...

2010-01-08T09:47:06.295-06:00

Awesome idea! And if that works...than hey, nothing wrong with that. :)

For me the 'safe place' is the freezer. S...

2010-01-08T09:30:25.745-06:00

For me the 'safe place' is the freezer. Sometimes stuff is in there for so long that I finally toss it. But I like that it is there if I really want it.

BTW I was at the gym yesterday, and thought I"d try a 'box jump.' FAIL. Miserably. But it was funny. Then I was doing some raised leg lunges (leg up on the bench) and someone came out of a room and startled me and I fell over sideways. Funny again. Keeps me humble!

I'm a firm believer in keep the house safe - g...

2010-01-08T09:04:44.029-06:00

I'm a firm believer in keep the house safe - great idea with the chocolate.

I have been doing the same thing. Eating just ali...

2010-01-08T08:33:20.010-06:00

I have been doing the same thing. Eating just alittle bit more and then a little bit more. Especially with those damn tootsie rolls. We have a love hate relationship.

The thing is now, I can recognize what I am doing and make changes before it's too late. It's all up to me.

Congrats to the winner! I am a periodic banner of...

2010-01-08T08:11:22.043-06:00

Congrats to the winner!

I am a periodic banner of foods. Isn't it funny how you can be totally fine for along time, and then it becomes the food obsession of the day?

Better to ban the food and feel silly than to keep it around, eat it, and gain weight!

You show that chocolate who is boss!

Nice catch on the chocolate before it did some dam...

2010-01-08T08:01:58.281-06:00

Nice catch on the chocolate before it did some damage. Hope things warm up soon - but not so much that the chocolate melts.

This is the same reason I don't keep my chocol...

2010-01-08T07:44:11.824-06:00

This is the same reason I don't keep my chocolate within reach. I have it tucked away in a cabinet so if I want it I have to deliberately go and get it. I don't want the mindless dipping to become yet another habit I have to break!

I had to put my weekly buying of chocolate on hold...

2010-01-08T07:02:48.017-06:00

I had to put my weekly buying of chocolate on hold. In fact, when WW gave us a sheet of 10 goals for 2010, one of my goals was to stop buying chocolate. So I stopped. That does not mean I won't eat it. It means I won't have it readily available. I was eating it as you describe. More than 1 or 2 pieces. Sometimes it was 6 or 8. I just can't have it sitting in the candy dish (so to speak) at all times.

Shelly, I think you did the right thing moving the...

2010-01-08T06:45:25.520-06:00

Shelly,
I think you did the right thing moving them out of "easy" reach. I don't buy candy very often anymore since I know I can't control myself around it.
Susan

LOVE THE CHOCOLATE IDEA. I did the same with the V...

2010-01-08T05:05:01.989-06:00

LOVE THE CHOCOLATE IDEA.
I did the same with the Vitatops back in the day.
I shant tell you how that ended :)