Posted 2:49 PM by Bonnie

Well, I blew it. I gained 3 pounds over Christmas week. No excuses. I enjoyed the cookies and fudge and pumpkin pie and turkey and dressing and knew I would go in with a gain. I'm actually surprised it wasn't more considering we did KFC yesterday. But, I was proud of myself because I had the courage to go to my TOPS meeting knowing I would have to report that gain. The accountability makes it real. I could not go and pretend it was just a fluctuation and convince myself somehow it doesn't count if it isn't written in the book. I was disappointed in the number of people who didn't come in today because they didn't want to have to end the year on a gain, but they are also just kidding themselves. Whether it is written in the book or not the weight is real and trying to psyche yourself into believing it isn't will only defeat your purpose. So, I went in, reported my gain as did some others and then left determined to take it off by the next meeting to start the year with a loss and hopefully make it a weekly trend.

Next week I am doing the program and have decided to do it on the psychology of eating. I have been reading a book called Cheap Psychological Tricks and learned that the colors yellow and red will make you eat faster and therefor you end up eating more because of eating so fast. Do the colors red and yellow conjure up any particular fast food restaurants? Also, it talks about how when we were children our parents got us to eat everything on our plate by serving it on plates or bowls with pictures on the bottom. The fun was to find the picture on the bottom of the plate, so that later in life we were psycologically trained to find the picture on the plate. The trick is to eat off plan plates. You will eat less. Anyway, I found all that interesting and since there was no one to do a program next week I thought that would be fun. I'm taking pics of all the fast food places to make a little display and will get some dollar general bowls or plates with pics for the children to give a visual display as I'm talking about the plates.

Well, my husband is in the shower so going to take advantage and get the living room cleaned. Next week I will have a better report!