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Originally Posted by PinkieLee

Welcome Jo and we are so glad that you are here sharing your healthy living journey with us. It's awesome that you are seeing such great results right now.... and that you've found something that works for you. Good luck to you my friend!

As for me, I done the HCG diet I can't tell you how many times. Like Gemme said, it ended up being a trigger for me. Yes, I lost a lot of weight very quickly ~ almost 65 pounds. Only to end up gaining it all back, plus another 15 pounds. When I am limited that kind of an eating program, I always end up on the downward spirial of a binge. FOR ME, it didn't help me work on the reasons why I overeat or help me with how I relate to food... it just left me feeling deprived.

Luckily here, we are all on a program and/or making modifications that fit with our individual lifestyles. We all have one goal in mind... healthy living.

I put my call out of "Welcome Jo"!! Congrats on taking your health as seriously as you are. Pain was one of the reasons I started on my journey.

I wanted to chime in a bit with regard to PinkieLee's post, as it touched what I have been working through lately on my own weight loss journey. I have, like many of us here, tried unsuccessfully to lose weight before. I always focused on 'the food'. The reason this time is successful is because I focused on "myself". I had a CRUSHING week last week. I thought for sure I had broken my last freaking plateau. Not only did I not break through it... I gained weight. How the hell was that possible?? I still do not know. But, I went back to square one of my behaviour modification therapy manual and rechecked all of the triggers. It was an eye opener for me to realize I had been emotionally triggered and apparently went blind to my own behaviours.

I was sssssssoooo mad and upset with myself. I just cried. But, doing the above helped me tremendously. So, in order to test myself, I walked right back into my emotional trigger situation and voila.... no trigger. No "forgot" to write that down - behaviour. No, twisting of my own thoughts. No.. all the others things I did to myself. Get my brain involved. If my brain is not involved, my emotional eating runs amok.

It isn't that I am fat, it is however that I am changing (apparently never ending changing) my unhealthy thinking. Each day is another day to exercise my healthy thinking. Six months ago I would not even have picked up on this whisper of a trigger. Six weeks ago I knew something was up, but was unable to really grasp it. Today, I feel empowered again.

So, wish me luck for weigh in on Friday. I don't think I will have broken my plateau this week, but by next Friday... I will be past my last plateau. I will not be beat anymore. I know we have all said this to ourselves, but this time, I really mean it. I am not going to be beat by my past anymore. I live here. In the present. With all my scars.

Just sending out love and compassion. Wishing all my fellow weight walkers a week without the internal critical voice.