Well done on the fast but remember that how you break it is important. A bit of protein with fat and minimal carbs (since you run LCHF) is the way and make it a small meal - you can always have a bit more later. Love and positive thoughts coming your way and I hope you can get tomorrow off - it sounds as if you need a day to relax before the fun and festivities of the wedding begin. Take care, Poppy! 💐🤗
15 Aug 17 by member: Phooka
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brilliant loss and determination - well done you. you certainly are a woman on a mission :-)
15 Aug 17 by member: Maxine smith
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You're doing it! Like you, I miss the idea of food as comfort, even if that idea was only an illusion and it never worked out that way. You're an inspiration!
15 Aug 17 by member: T8U9
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Thanks all
I'll just break my fast with almonds as usual Phooka 😁
Just at the moment it's easier not to eat than comfort eat
And fasting is also keeping me off alcohol at the moment, so that's probably wise aswell.
Probably break my fast tonight or tomorrow
On Friday at the wedding I'll eat what I want
But I won't be drinking apart from a few sips for the toast, as I'll be driving 😁
15 Aug 17 by member: poppycom
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Your real determined effort has been rewarded with a fantastic loss in the las few months -I'm sure you will enjoy the wedding.
15 Aug 17 by member: Adpully
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15 Aug 17 by member: bubblegum14
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Well done poppycom you are doing so well keep it up
15 Aug 17 by member: thomas rutherford
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If I looked half as good in that red dress as you do, and if I could even fit in that red dress, I'd have all the motivation I needed to stay away from the chips. You're killing it, my queen. Stay on course!
15 Aug 17 by member: EFudd
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I don't know you, but I'm looking forward to this wedding on your behalf. You're such a rare and shining example of how this can work! Alcohol used to take edge off hunger for me, but shifted to relaxing my judgement about food. So being the default designated driver isn't all bad! :-)
15 Aug 17 by member: T8U9
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15 Aug 17 by member: thsiun
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15 Aug 17 by member: ehead
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Addictive personalities can always find something to "addict" over! My first memory of the obsession was eating my entire Niagara Chocolate Easter bunny -- all 10 glorious hollow inches of him -- in a single day, and then devouring my sister's bunny, down to the solid base, by midday, Easter Monday. My sister's anguished wail ("MY BUH-NEEEEEEE!") revealed my crime to my mother. ...
15 Aug 17 by member: Miraculum
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Mom's response: "Patty, I'm not going to punish you because you're going to be SO SICK that you'll never do this again!" Wrongo, Mamma Mia! And that wasn't the first time in my childhood I'd be caught bingeing on chocolate ... and ice cream ... and cookies... Turns out I had a prodigious tolerance for cocoa, fat, and sugar that haunts me to this day.
15 Aug 17 by member: Miraculum
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My husband has been sober for 30 years and stopped smoking 29 years ago, both quit cold-turkey by virtue of his great personal discipline. That all happened long before I knew him. Unfortunately, he replaced alcohol and tobacco with sugar. He consulted a bariatrician who told him that it's very common to replace one addiction with another. (I was just lucky that mine has always been chocolate. They don't arrest anyone for driving under the influence of M&Ms!)
15 Aug 17 by member: Miraculum
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You are doing so GREAT! You are an inspiration to us all! 🙆🏻Enjoy that wedding and have a lovely time sweetheart! 😘
15 Aug 17 by member: smprowett
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Eh, I've noticed that people who buy into the "addictive personality" model tend to project it onto others a lot. Replacement addictions happen when root causes/unmet needs aren't addressed (granted: hard work) so pattern of turning to external substance/experience/etc continues. Not constructive to assume others are same.
15 Aug 17 by member: T8U9
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Another super drop Poppy! You are doing so well.
15 Aug 17 by member: Doobrie
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At times, addictions can be (or at least start as) maladaptative behaviors that compensate for **unmet** needs and/or losses, rooted in **unresolved** emotional/psychological issues. Sometimes, an "addiction" is simply a "bad habit"!
15 Aug 17 by member: Miraculum
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