Today is day 14 on the 17 day diet.  I didn’t lose any weight today but I’m not gaining weight and I’ve lost inches all over.  My trainer measured me today and I lost a little over 3 inches, just in my waist!  My calve was .1 larger!  Weird but I assume it’s the walking / dancing on the “Dreadmill” that I do!  Everything else was smaller.

Tomorrow I’m determined to take my sorry self to the beach and walk.  Ridiculous that I live hardly 3 miles from the beach and haven’t been there in...Well, I don’t even know how long it’s been but it’s been a very very long time.

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Today was a fairly low energy day and while I’ve read of others complaining about that in the early stages I haven’t had the problem and it may have nothing to do with the diet. Maybe it’s just one of those days.

I had a rough weekend.  Saturday night for some reason I was just not into the program and felt out of sorts.

Have you ever been angry or upset one minute and next thing you know you’re on the couch eating an entire bag of potato chips?  Then you finish the chips and you’re in the kitchen looking for cookies or cereal?  Then you think, well, maybe it wasn’t salt or sugar I wanted, that just didn’t quite hit the spot, so you have a baked potato?  But then you remember the ice cream in the freezer and next thing you know you’ve eaten half of the ½ gallon container?  Well that’s not what I did but it is how I felt Saturday night.  I did eat an apple after 2:00 PM and to be honest that and an extra two yogurts was my BIG CHEAT so it wasn’t horrible but still I was off track.   And don’t get me wrong…it can FEEL GOOD at the time.  It feels like a quick fix.

We often eat to get something off our minds or to relieve stress.  Some experts even say that stress, and the insulin jump that goes with it, can cause you to crave high sugar, high carb foods – the foods that are making us fat and causing us even more stress!

In The 17 Day Diet book Dr. Mike talks about stages of hunger.  Make sure you use that chart to determine, am I really hungry or is something else going on?  If it’s something else and you’ve determined it’s attached to emotional eating there are some things you can do.

First, be prepared.  Get trigger foods, foods not allowed on the diet, out of the house and out of arms reach. My trainer today told me his parents brought over a tray of cookies and brownies at Christmas. He threw them away.  Wasting food?  Yes.  But being fat and dying younger than you have to?  Worse.  If you can’t throw it away give it away.  Take it to a neighbor (It’s time you met your neighbors anyway).  Take it to work.  Give it to the kids.

Whatever you have to do – don’t leave it there now to temp you at a moment of weakness later.

Go for a walk. Physical activity relieves stress.  If you can’t go outside because of weather, do sit-ups, jumping jacks, march in place, turn on music and dance, whatever it takes.  I’ve been leaving my iPod by the TV and when commercials come on, instead of fast forwarding through them I just put the earphones in and get three minutes of exercise!

Burning calories is always better than eating them.

Visit and post here.  I don’t care if it’s 100 times a day.  Do it!

Work on a special playlist for your workout or walks.

Make a special CD or playlist that has songs on it that calm you down or songs that make you feel strong and invincible! (Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” comes to mind)

Keep a journal and write down your accomplishments so far.  Read it during weak moments.  (Keep your before photo in there too)

If you still seem to come back to food at least eat large amounts of the foods you CAN have.  Stock up on the “Freebies” listed in the book.  Be prepared.  It’s better to have an “extra” yogurt than a donut. (But not 8 yogurts) Eat 3 chicken breasts if you have to just try to eat what’s on the program.

Terri Sinclair - http://tksinclair.com/

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