Well, I can say that when I started down this similar road I just didn't weigh myself. Even now when people tell me that I look like I have lost a lot and ask how much I have to honestly say, "I dont' know" because for me it was the decision to look and feel better thus knowing my clothes were looser adn that I could see my size shrinking.

For me the scale is a tool that can be like social media, it can lure you in and then trigger you to bad behaviour so I just don't use it.

The low fat thing was such a sneaky way to get more sugar into our diets! Even now, the one 'carb' type thing I use, which is milk, is only the full fat cream which I think is almost completely devoid of the sugars, in my morning coffee. It's just easier to slowly get rid of them.

Another trick, if you feel you are going to 'slip' is take the food you were going to slip with and say, ok, I'm going to do this, I'll jsut cut it in half. And then you still get that food but only half and then next time say I'll just take 1/4. It sounds silly but it really is about retraining your approach to food, at least it was for me.

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