Last time I posted, a week ago, I wrote that I was making progress but slowly. This past week I felt like I’ve made quite a leap in my progress.

I’ve been eating very healthy and feeling great! Most importantly, I’ve felt really in control of what I eat. I’ve really been able to control my emotional eating.

I spent about a week going over my notes from the Shrink Yourself program that I completed about 4 years ago. That week made a huge difference. I have really felt in control and I haven’t been using food to satisfy my uncomfortable emotions.

It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted a photo update. The reason for that is that I went on a trip around Memorial Day for about a week, and allowed myself to eat just about whatever I wanted. When I came back home, it took me about another 10 days to get back to where I was before the trip.

I’m really glad that I did that, though, because it taught me that I can stray from my healthy diet if I want, but that it will take about 1.5 days to recover for every 1 day that I eat unhealthy. So that should help me to stick to my healthy eating habits, and only indulge on rare occasions, and only for a day or two at the most (and preferably only a meal or two).

Photo Update

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After 53 Days:

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• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 46 – Making progress, slowly
• Shrink Yourself: A program that helped me finally break past my weight loss plateau
• Healthy Tanning vs. Unhealthy Tanning
• Why is it so hard to stop Emotional Eating?
• 7 Ways to Recognize If You Are an Emotional Eater
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 35 – More Weight Loss Secrets
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 32 – Refocusing My Efforts
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 31 – Starting back up again
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 23
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 22
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 21 – Photo Update
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 20
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 19 (Another benefit: a healthier back)
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 18
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 17
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