Thanks for the link, i am soooo bored and was so thinking of food and this has hellped a bit.....how have you manged to loose soooo much u must have amazing willpower!
Thanks - all in all I've lost nearly 5 stone this year as I lost a bit on Atkins the week before LL too. I am very happy!
As for will power, I think we all have it. It goes up and it goes down, but I ask myself whenever I am tempted "Do I want to stay on the diet and get slim and healthy, or do I want to eat a piece of (insert whatever - cheese, curry, bacon, chicken, chilli etc. - for me it is savoury) and get fat?"
It is all in the mind - hunger, anxiety, restlessness, boredom, etc. You choose how you want to use the feelings and the decision you want to make as a result of them.
I'm sure it is different for everybody, but for me it is simple - what do I want most. That doesn't mean it is always easy, but for the most part I have been suprised how easy this diet is. I even feel guilty about how easy it is. I don't feel lots of hunger, but occasionally when I do, I try to think of it as a positive, and that it is my body telling me it is going to consume some of my own fat very soon!
I want to use any trick I can to get me through this - whether it is positive thinking, visualisation, pinching my earlobes, I don't care - I just want to get the job dne as quickly as my body will allow. I chose LL because of the group sessions with counselling to help me. Without that and the support it gives (and forums like this of course) I am sure I would have had a takeaway after week 1 just to congratulate myself on doing so well! - Now that is twisted thinking of the top drawer!
I realise that I have rambled on and on, when I intended to simply answer the question, but it is good to get my thoughts down on 'paper'
Enjoy the games!