One for Marge!
OK, Marge won out today. I had a really hard time staying on target yesterday, but I did. Today, however, one of my students gave me a box of chocolates as a thank you gift for helping him. He is graduating next week. He knows I love chocolate. So I had a few- not the whole box, but a few - chocolates. Add to that the teacher retiring from my dept put on a spread of treats. After careful consideration I had a strawberry tart. It was more strawberry than tart, for what it is worth.
 OK, so I blew it today. All in all though I did not do as badly as I could have, so I am not beating myself up about it. I weighed in at 199.5 pounds today. Not great in the world of super models, but less than I have weighed for a while. AND if the Marge binge didn’t negatively impact things I hope to remain below 200 pounds. At least I am (temporarily perhaps) below 200!
 Tomorrow is another day.
Shari
My IDEAL strategy when I find myself in possession of ‘bad’ food is to throw it out. Right into the garbage. I tell myself it is not really food, so I am allowed. Of course this is coming from someone who had a butter tart AND a brownie today. (it was a work thing! They were there to be eaten!) Sigh.
You know what, you ate only a few of the chocolates, and you chose the best treat you could. Don’t beat yourself up about it - we can’t be perfect every day and we don’t have to be. Just 90% of the time.