Question for those who successfully swayed pink...

[sweetpea]

TOTALLY about the water LOL... I sometimes even subtract the ounces of water I recently consumed to get my actual weight before I log it

LOL!! Yep - sounds like a totally logical, "boy-mom" thing to do! Makes sense to me!

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh, that's so good to hear. Yeah, I have NEVER been able to just lose, lose, lose without any little cheats and regaining a bit of weight here and there along the way. As long as the overall trend is that my weight is consistently going in a downward motion, that's good, right? And of course, I wouldn't want to cheat and gain a couple pounds the week of O, but in general, an "up-down-up-down" weight loss with an overall trend of going DOWN is okay?

Yes, that's fine and that's how the human body in nature would tend to lose weight anyway.

[sweetpea]

Yes, that's fine and that's how the human body in nature would tend to lose weight anyway.

Okay, good. This makes me feel a lot better.

Also, just wanted to update anyone who was reading this and/or remotely cared...LOL...regarding my upcoming birthday weekend feast, haha! I think that as much as I'm going to enjoy myself and not really restrict myself too much with the cheats that weekend, I'm going to take some advice atomic gave me (in my private personalized swaying plan thread) and to not go too crazy. Afterall, a weekend worth of cheats is definitely different than just one or even two cheat meals. So, I'm still going to skip breakfast, because - why not? If I'm going to indulge in dinner, it makes sense to save up some calories by skipping breakfast and eating a pretty light lunch. And I'm going to try and keep things as vegetarian as possible, bc it's easy to still have a hugely satisfying cheat meal without the meat (which is shocking for me to say because I used to be such a HUGE meat-eater, esp. red meat, but it's been surprisingly easy for me to cut out - I don't really crave or miss it too much, just once in awhile).

Anyway...I'm kind of just rambling to myself here, but I feel kind of strong and empowered, for lack of better words, to know that I CAN indulge and enjoy myself on my 30th birthday...but I also don't need to go overboard and stuff myself silly 24-hours-a-day, Friday through Sunday of that weekend, kwim? It's nice to know that I'll have at least a little bit of self-control...even on my birthday!

Thanks for letting me ramble on! Ha!

[Ribbons]

Also, just wanted to update anyone who was reading this and/or remotely cared...LOL...regarding my upcoming birthday weekend feast, haha! I think that as much as I'm going to enjoy myself and not really restrict myself too much with the cheats that weekend, I'm going to take some advice atomic gave me (in my private personalized swaying plan thread) and to not go too crazy. Afterall, a weekend worth of cheats is definitely different than just one or even two cheat meals. So, I'm still going to skip breakfast, because - why not? If I'm going to indulge in dinner, it makes sense to save up some calories by skipping breakfast and eating a pretty light lunch. And I'm going to try and keep things as vegetarian as possible, bc it's easy to still have a hugely satisfying cheat meal without the meat (which is shocking for me to say because I used to be such a HUGE meat-eater, esp. red meat, but it's been surprisingly easy for me to cut out - I don't really crave or miss it too much, just once in awhile).

Yep, this is exactly what I did! I've gotten so used to skipping breakfast that it's kinda weird to eat it now anyway I ate something like 200 calories for the whole day before my birthday dinner... that might be one of the reasons I went overboard, I was STARVING

[sweetpea]

Yep, this is exactly what I did! I've gotten so used to skipping breakfast that it's kinda weird to eat it now anyway I ate something like 200 calories for the whole day before my birthday dinner... that might be one of the reasons I went overboard, I was STARVING

Yeah, I'm a little afraid of that too - that I'll only have a few calories that day, then OVERINDULGE at dinner that night! Eeek! My plan is to have one very light meal during the day, like you did, and fill up on Cherry Coke Zero until dinner, then pop some fiber pills and have lots of water before my meal. Hopefully, my plan will work and I won't eat like a horse at dinner! Ha!

[Ribbons]

Yeah, I'm a little afraid of that too - that I'll only have a few calories that day, then OVERINDULGE at dinner that night! Eeek! My plan is to have one very light meal during the day, like you did, and fill up on Cherry Coke Zero until dinner, then pop some fiber pills and have lots of water before my meal. Hopefully, my plan will work and I won't eat like a horse at dinner! Ha!

Great plan! on filling your belly up with liquid, that will really help Have fun, and happy birthday!!

[sweetpea]

Great plan! on filling your belly up with liquid, that will really help Have fun, and happy birthday!!

Thank you, Ribbons! In my mind it works, but I always have such a horrible time at trying to restrain myself from overindulging (it's so bad that sometimes I think it's like a real addiction to food!) so, I know that even with my best efforts, the possibility of completely throwing this all out the window that weekend is very real. Whatever happens though...I will get back on track Monday morning, 100%!

[auroara78]

Have a great birthday weekend soon, Sweetpea! May will be here before u know it! And I agree about going a lil crazy but not out of the moon nuts during the festivities!

[sweetpea]

Thanks, auroara! I just found out my sister is coming to town the following weekend, and wants to go to dinner to celebrate my birthday (she isn't able to come up for the actual birthday weekend). Argh! Another cheat meal, when I was hoping to not cheat AT ALL for the remainder of May.

Grrrr, this is so hard.

[auroara78]

Yeah the diet was the thing I struggled with the most with swaying, and I still didn't adhere to it 100%.

I am still so amazed that something worked and I am having my girl though.....before I found out, I kept remembering all my diet cheats and kept thinking...there is no way....

Be as strong as you can be, without getting too stress-y about it. When I did mess up some on my diet while I was TTC, I just let it roll off me, and I think that may have been my saving grace! That I kept it calm and didn't fret too hard when I did screw up (I wanted to keep T low.)