feeling is when you know you have helped someone. I am glad that you still have that in your life. Sometimes retirement makes us forget that feeling.

It is a huge step that you have not binged in days. Feel that instead of downing yourself up for not being totally on track. I read a blog this week by a woman who has lost over 100 lbs and kept it off for years. She said if she were starting now, she wouldn't worry about specific rules for what she could and couldn't eat; she would just wake up every day with the intention of getting the best nutrition into her body before she allowed herself to have anything that wasn't the best for her. She said she would write everything down, and at the end of the day, she would calculate it and see if she felt that she was okay with ruining all her good work for the day or if she wanted to fit some small serving of something that she was craving into her day. She said that when she learned that it freed her to have the junk if she wanted it, but she most often decided that she didn't want it, and it was a much better feeling than thinking that she couldn't have things or that she wasn't on plan and failing herself so often. I have really been mulling all that over because it makes a lot of sense. Allowing things and making choices sometimes makes it a lot easier to say no instead of being so strict and wanting to rebel. I am a rebel, so that has not been working for me very well. She also said that she would never again allow herself to make a plan that she couldn't live with all the time, for the rest of her life. What kind of eating could you live with forever and still get to and stay at your goal?

Love your pun! Co at daycare also makes me smile after all the great pics. I wish I could find Poppy a place like that. She loves playing with other dogs or the cat.