What was your victory today?

I'd love to hear how other people got the better of the day, whether it be about sticking to your diet or not! 

For me, it was getting the best of cravings and emotional eating.  I wanted to comfort eat allllllllllllll day.  I beat it off all morning, making oatmeal mixed with nonfat yogurt when what I really wanted was to make bacon & eggs, going for canteloupe when I wanted ice cream.  I almost crumbled when I had to go run an errand and I passed a Fazoli's.  I wanted to stop and get some lasagna so bad I literally had to physically prevent myself from turning the wheel to go in the drive-thru.  Instead, I went directly to the grocery store, picked up low-fat ricotta cheese, and went home to make my own lasagna.  I used thin-sliced eggplant instead of noodles.  The sauce is TONS of tomatos, zucchini, mushrooms, shredded cabbage, shredded carrots, and of course liberal amounts of onion, garlic, basil, oregano, and a smattering of crushed red pepper.  My cheese mixture is the low-fat ricotta, non-fat mozzarella, more herbs.  It tastes amazingly good, and I feel soooooo much better about myself having beat the urge to binge!

I defied the craving to go to the vending machine even though I can now have snacky foods because Lent is over. :)

Good Job, you did awesome.

Hmm, I had two small victories today.  My sister and me go to the gym every Thursday, and today she was in a bitchy mood, we got in a fight, and I almost called it off.  However, I'm like, "It's not my fault she's in a bad mood, and I won't let it screw up my workout".  The second was that I wanted an afternoon snack, and it seems we have so much bad food around this week, but I just snacked on half cup of Life cereal (around 75 cals ) w00t.

And btw, you have the greatest attitude, it IS all about the daily victories really .

I made a commitment to myself to stick to calorie counting and to do this for myself!

Oh my, your little baby! What a cutie!!!

Anyway my victory today was going to olive garden and 1) not having any breadsticks and 2) not eating all of my entree because it was there.  I stopped when I was full!

I'm going to call my fall from grace a victory.  I could have fallen a lot farther :).

Went out to lunch at a local BBQ joint and only ate 1.5 ribs didn't have the bread and only about 10-15 french fries.  It was enough and I was full, where usually I would have eaten the entire plate of food.  More calories than I usually have for lunch, but I had been craving that BBQ for days... all better now! 

man i really really really wanted a bagel with butter :X 

i resisted... i had my cereal with soymilk instead and the craving passed....

now i'm on to dinner though and the evening... we'll see how it goes!

My victory today.. went to the food court at lunch and was wanting something semi-bad. So I got the grilled chicken burger at A&W (no sauce) but then they WERE OUT OF SALAD. sheesh... so my victory was that I did not get fries instead, and I cancelled the diet pop too. (Don't need the extra sodium). yay! Plus I saved like $3, hehe.

 

My gym had the final weigh-in for the Biggest Loser they are running today.  Last week, I gained 2 pounds (TTOM).  This week, I was down a whopping 8 pounds!  Sure, most of it was water retention from my period, but I wasn't going to tell them that!

Well, so far i've only had one victory today and that was losing another pound! i'm proud of myself even though i've only lost 3 lbs so far but at least the scales going down and i'm still eating yummy (but healthy) foods. I'm FINALLY learning how to lose weight the healthy way and actually being patient with the weight coming off since usually if i don't see results fast i give up.

Not this time though!

Original Post by laschndr:

Oh my, your little baby! What a cutie!!!

Anyway my victory today was going to olive garden and 1) not having any breadsticks and 2) not eating all of my entree because it was there.  I stopped when I was full!

 No breadsticks at Olive Garden!!!  That is a huge victory!!! I'm jealous of your iron will.   I just have to turn down Olive Garden all together.

My personal victory was non food related:  I got EVERYTHING done that I said I would get done today!!!

I'm not sure if mine was a victory for the day but it did make me feel better.  I've been really depressed that I have only lost 7 pounds since Feb.  Well I realised today that my bmi went from 34.3 to 33.3!  It's not much but it makes me feel like I've finally accomplished SOMETHING.

Good job, everyone! My personal victory today was not quitting during my spin class. As soon as I started pedaling my bike both of my knees popped (dang crappy joints), and I felt so weak and tired. I kept looking at the door, thinking "the elliptical would be so much easier, maybe I can escape." But I stayed, and ended up having a great time!

Jennifer

I managed to stop a pretty major binge halfway through, I put a lot of effort into exercising AND I realised that my binge episodes depend entirely upon whether I have a positive or negative outlook. Zut alors, it's been an impressive day.

I haven't gotten hardly any physical exercise this winter.  Today the sun was out so I went for a 20 mile bike ride.

It felt fantastic.  My legs hurt, (in a good way) but I just know I will see a loss on the scale in a day or two.

please please let there be a loss

Great post. Just what I needed - some inspiration.

I failed on the eating front and was feeling very defeated. But I decided my victory is that I called my friend and made a promise to work out with her. Even if its only a short walk on a treadmill.

Gotta celerate the small victories. :)

Ah, my victory? I have two for today.

One, I jumped back into working out after 6 full days of no exercise due to life-junk (flu, anxiety, TTOM, sorest muscles ever, etc) I wasn't sure if I was supposed to work out, as I'm not quite over the illness, but I easily could have taken that 6 day break and turned it into a 6 month break. I even did HIIT for 20 minutes. Woot! Go me.

Two, I said no to butter.

I reached a new low today... I haven't weigh this since August of 1994!

And my "skinny" jeans are now almost too big!

Victory!

I actually got out of bed at 6am and was in the gym for 7! Worked out for an hour and a half before work!! xx

Free homemade fudge in the cafeteria! I didn't celebrate Easter, so I had one small piece... but it was ONLY 1, which was good. :-)

Got an asian chicken salad instead of chicken potpie at swiss chalet(well and I split an app.)

 

I WILL eat healthy for the rest of the day!