Joy dot: today is open art studio at my gym (believe it or not) and I will get to do beading and talk to my friend Esther.

Hi Nicole
Did you look back at your food journal for the week before you ate the cookies? Usually the slip starts before you actually eat sugar. Maybe meal timing was off, you ate whites, not enough protein - something along those lines.
Allison

: Hard to say Kathleen-- definitively I
: can only say 9 weeks. Before that
: I would just keep building on the
: steps as I could-- then I would do
: well for a week at the most then
: trail off. I thought I was home
: free, but I did read the Step 7
: link and I think that really
: helps. SOmehow I thought Step 6
: was Step 7, so I don't know how I
: got that mixed up. I didn't know
: Step 7 was about lifestyle. I will
: work on that-- I did do better
: when I was spending time in my
: gratitude journal.I have to just
: remember that it's a pyramid--
: slack on any one step and it'll
: all come crashing down soon
: enough.

: If I can learn to forgive myself too
: I think I'll do better with the
: in-betweens. I just want it to be
: perfect-- but I can't expect that
: overnight. I will probably fail
: again, but hopefully there will be
: less and less time between
: failures until eventually I'm home
: free with this awful habit. Thanks
: for everything-- overall my life
: is the best ever, my relationships
: sweeter than ever and my mood
: swings are gone. But I can't say I
: don't feel a twinge of
: disappointment at any rate.