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Chart Your Success Day 2 Posted by MaryL on 11/6/2018, 12:45 pm https://www.cambridgedietusa.com/pdf/chart_your_success.pdf It's day 2. I am not perfect and may have to accept that I will do better using the regular Cambridge Plan as outlined on the website. I pasted the link to the "Chart Your Success" tool at the Cambridge website. I took my measurements this morning and wrote them down on the sheet Cambridge provided. I plan to use the charts that Cambridge provided every day as long as I am using the Cambridge this time. I put them in a 3 ring binder, and I will carry the chart with me in my purse. I have had my head in the sand for months, not wanting to see the truth --not wanting to even look in the mirror. Time to wake up and smell the coffee. I am a compulsive, impulsive out of control comfort eater and I have to get a handle on this behavior before my weight literally kills me. I really believe this chart will help me as long as I chart everything religiously and analyze the situation and the emotions I had that led up to any event. Yesterday I planned to do SS yesterday but as in the past I struggled. Yesterday, I used the chart to document every morsel of food, good and bad, that I ate. I was fine all day-but at work I knew I would have trouble with the vending machine. Instead I packed 2 sticks of celery in my lunch bag in case I needed to chew on something.(1 cup of celery equals 16 calories) and packed black coffee. In addition, I had 3 bottles of water at water at work and my last shake of the day at work. The midterm election and politics weighs heavy on me and I stress day and night about the direction we are headed in this country. I stress about personal family matters. I stress about the situations at work. Stress got the best of me again. As soon as I got home the impulses took over and I ate and, of course, shared with my dog and one of my cats. Today I wrote down everything I ate yesterday on the Cambridge Chart Your Success Chart. 1871 calories, most of which was consumed after 11 PM after work-At my weight I would still lose weight consuming that amount but it isn't in my plan to do that. Forgive the rambling. Now it's time to get ready and go VOTE.

You are not rambling!! Posted by Yvonne on 11/9/2018, 11:28 am, in reply to "Chart Your Success Day 2" You are ventilating and sharing. Thank you for your authenticity, MaryL. A lot of people are not that courageous to be so open. That's why I love this Board. We are ALL struggling——at one time or another. Yet, we still keep trying. That's the most important activity——to keep trying to reach our goal.

I've actually never seen this chart Posted by Pam T on 11/8/2018, 6:40 pm, in reply to "Chart Your Success Day 2" Thanks for sharing it! I think it's fantastic! I am a big believer in charting. Even when mistakes are made, we can go back and review our overall progress and feel good about seeing a positive trend. Awesome!

Re: Chart Your Success Day 2 Posted by MaryL on 11/6/2018, 2:50 pm, in reply to "Chart Your Success Day 2" I just returned from voting. I hope you all are having a great day and staying focused. That is my goal today. It's almost time to have a shake and head for work. Everyone have a good evening,

Re: Donuts -Just say no. Posted by MaryL on 11/6/2018, 7:09 pm, in reply to "Re: Chart Your Success Day 2" The company serves cupcakes and donuts at meetings. Today it was donuts. Sugar is like an addictive drug... Back in the 80s the words "Just Say NO". come to mind when I think about sugar but then 9 out of 10 times I say yes. Today I SAID "No thank you. I don't want one. It's too messy. There aren't any napkins and I have to have coffee in order to eat one." No one questioned me after that. Everyone have a good night.

Well done MaryL Posted by Pam T on 11/8/2018, 6:38 pm, in reply to "Re: Donuts -Just say no." Every time you say "No", it is like putting another brick in the wall separating the old you from the new. Plus, the longer you stop eating sugar, the less it will call out to you. This I know from experience. I used to easily eat an entire bag of chocolate chips without a thought. I would eat entire boxes (yes, that is multiple) of snack cakes. If I had flour, butter, and sugar in my house I would make SOMETHING out of it and it was usually at night after putting my kids to bed. I was addicted, compulsive, powerless, possessed, whatever ya want to call it, I was sick. Sugar has no power over me anymore. I can say with 100% truth that I am over whatever it was that controlled me. Time and a growing desire to pursue good health and get off of medications that made me feel like garbage was what it took. Getting over addictions is not a walk in the park. We struggle, no matter what the substance, but believe in your recovery. Know that it is within you to leave that behind and find positive productive ways to deal with your stress and no longer contribute to it by unhealthy choices. Sometimes our empathy and compassion for our fellow man and focusing on the chaos around us can leave us feeling empty or scared or hopeless. Food will not help any of those things and the temporary comfort or distraction of compulsive eating will always leave us feeling worse and more out of control. Keep building that wall MaryL. Brick by brick.

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