To my friends who feel guilty - DON'T!!!

I haven't journaled for the last two and a half days, but I forced myself to get onto Vtrim this morning to enter my breakfast, and their tip of the day was:

Have you "fallen off the wagon" during the holidays? If so, you aren't alone. This time of year has many challenges for health behaviors. But as long as you pick yourself up, keep trying, learn something, and move on, you are succeeding!

Do not give up on yourselves. If you are still keeping up with ANY of the habits you used to lose the weight in the first place, you are doing better than you were before. For instance, even if you snack between meals, do you still pay attention to portion sizes when you're sitting down to eat? Do you still look for ways to walk a little more often. Things like that. (I have noticed that parking farther away in parking lots is a habit that's harder to maintain in the winter!!).


Anyway, journaling is important because it means you are being accountable to yourself. It's better to go over your limits - but still journal it - than to not do it at all. Whenever I skip my journal, it's like I'm giving myself free rein to eat whatever I please. So this is the one thing I'm getting back to really working on.

I hope everybody here in "Fit Pals" is having a good holiday season and is looking forward to a fresh new year (and decade!!).