It goes like this. For all the good we accomplished in Tampa, there was some bad. At least for me. I’d been working with a nutritionist to get my unhealthy habits banished and then we holed up in the hotel room for five days after which point, I discovered my body can’t handle cheating in large amounts. I undid all the good I’d accomplished. Not just in pounds but in body fat and protein. Live and learn. 
So I’m getting back to work getting healthy. I’m protecting the work and my body.
But we did have a good time! And I really did try to post pictures but next thing I knew, I had huge pictures uploaded to the wordpress site. So I’m sorry! No pictures.
Which brings me back to blogging. I think it’s so unfair that just twice a year, I can’t just indulge. OK yes there are much worse things in life, and I should protect my body like the temple it is. 
But seriously. Is eating an entire bag of chocolate hearts in the span of half an hour too much to ask? :grin1:
What are YOUR vices? Care to share?
Carly Phillips would like to take 100% credit for all her stories but the truth is, Carly’s strength is writing family, emotion, funky elderly people and animals. She couldn’t plot her way out of a paper bag, which is why she smartly found her plotmonkey pals early on in her writing career. Thanks to their support, Carly is now a NYT Bestselling author of 23 plus novels. Because writing doesn’t keep her busy enough, Carly is also a wife, a mother of one preteen and one teenage daughter, the primary care giver of her soft coated Wheaten terrier and an expert carpool mom.
Destiny
Dirty Little Secrets
Once Upon A Valentine
Through The Night
Subscribe to Posts 
Comment
The winter months are the worst, because were I live it gets so cold, I don’t want to go anywhere, and I don’t exercise and food is my focus. Pizza, chocolate, pop – all the bad stuff. Right now pizza is the bad one – I’m eating a lot of it.
I try in other ways to counter-act. Like drinking water instead of pop. Eating oatmeal for breakfast instead of pancakes and bacon. At work, at least I don’t munch all day. But at night or weekends, I am weak! I notice though when I’m on my computer, I don’t think about food as much, so I guess that is what I need to do – surf the ‘net *g*
Comment
I’m really trying to eat healthier too. My biggest challenge is to avoid french fries and other fast food. I’m going to the gym 5-6 days a week, so I’m doing the right thing with the exercise, just have to doing the right thing food-wise.
Comment
My vice is Cuties. They are these little soy ice cream sandwiches. I LOVE the mint chocolate chip. To die for. But hey, they don’t have any butterfat or cocoa fat or dairy so it’s okay right? :giggler
Oh, I’ve been worried since I posted my comment yesterday thinking I went too far. Julie, I wasn’t dissing Florida. There are truly some beautiful places down there. I just can’t live with the humidity or the heat. And I can’t see the Rockies from down there.
Have a great day all,
Cher
Comment
I gave up diet soda for the most part over a year ago. And dropped 35 pounds, which I have kept off. Cutting chocolate out is impossible- I love my Nutella. But now that I only have to feed the two of us, it was easy to go shopping at West Point last weekend and NOT stock up on the crap the kid would have wanted.
Cher- I enjoy visiting FL, but wouldn’t want to live there- the humidity in the summer is literally a killer for me when it comes to breathing. On the train, hubby was looking out the window and commented on how flat it is and how it reminds him of certain countries where he has spent a lot of time while he was in the Army. He said he kept waiting for people to pop out of the ground and start shooting. I love NY but Daughter couldn’t wait to move away. I think everyone holds a soft spot that can be easily bruised for their home state. Of course I would like NY better if we could give the City to NJ….
Comment
My vices are too many to count, but I have to say that I miss my nightcaps before bed that I get into the habit with during our Plotmonkeys weeks! I don’t drink much except for twice a year…and this year, since we were only drinking Amaretto and Baileys, I didn’t even get a buzz. But it was nice to relax with a drink at the end of the day since our brains were so fried!
Cher, I totally got what you were saying! I love that other people love their home states/hometowns as much as I love mine. Heck, I certainly don’t want everyone in the world to live here! They can just come visit.
But hey…can you Northerners please take your cold back? Seriously, it was a nice gift, but totally inappropriate for Florida. I’m sure I can find the receipt… :freezin :freezeman
Comment
Coffee. Or more precisely, caffeine. I’ll drink a full pot of Cafe du Monde chicory coffee in a day. I drink it half light soy milk with Splenda(R) so the only really bad thing is the caffeine. I can walk away from chocolate and sweets. But if I don’t have
then run, don’t walk, away from me. I’m a real…well…one of *those*.
Weight’s always been an issue for me. I actually managed to lose a pound over the holidays and despite eating my way across Tampa and central Florida last week, I didn’t gain any weight! I HAVE to get back into routine. I HAVE to Protect the Organization! *looks around guiltily*
Comment
For me, it’s chocolate, which does not make kidneys happy (I am on the happy kidney diet, as I like to call it). Salt (which is weird, because I don’t salt things, but I eat packaged food because it is easy) is another. I love my diet coke, but had to give up that, too.
Totally there with ya Carly….I am on the low sodium, no fun food diet,which is fine….I guess :).
Comment
I gained 6 lbs between the holidays and our plotting!!
I need to sweep all the junk and sweets out of this house and get back to eating the way I was last year when I lost 30 pounds. It is really hard, though, once you fall back into bad habits, like my nightly glass of wine!
Comment
Hubby had a doctor’s appt this morning and it wasn’t pretty. He’s gained 35 pounds in the past 6 months. Most of it’s due to the medicines he’s on, but he HAS to get some of it off. And I have about 30 that I need to lose so…I’ll be going to the grocery today to get the healthy foods (I’m going to eat all the unhealthy ones before he gets home :happy2:) and starting tomorrow the whole family is going to be eating better. Eventually we’ll get back to the exercise thing too, but we don’t want to overwhelm ourselves with good health!
Silver (and anyone else who wants to play) – we’ve got a fun thing going on at my blog on Thursdays and for some reason I think it might be right up your alley. It’s purple prose day – we’ve started a story and today is the day to let your muse play in purple paint! Some of it is really good…or bad, depending on how you look at it!
http://www.alannahlynne.blogspot.com Everyone is welcome to come over and play by adding to the story or creating your own.
Comment
Ok so my vice isn’t food related. It’s beleiving that I still can do the things we did when we were young. Needless to say I’m not and I ended up in the hospital with a broken ankle. Ugh! I home and very depressed.
Comment
Leslie,
I so agree. Once you get out of the dieting groove it’s tough to get back into it. I too am tossing the fattening stuff this week.
Carly,
If those Chocolate hearts were semi sweet, I could’ve beat your time.
Hugs to all I am off to work.
Comment
Alannah, are you insinuating that my prose is purple? *harrumph* I’ll have you know that I have it on excellent authority that my prose is fuchsia. And chartreuse. (Though according to one editor it was more akin to the lovely shades of celadon and….cream of wheat.
Okay. Since I’ve already quoted HAiR in a comment today, I’ll get over to your *house* to play once I get my groceries put up. And if anyone is interested, my tech guru is my guest blogger today over on Penumbra.
Comment
For me the hardest thing to give up is sweets. I love to bake, love to eat. Since the holidays & a visit to the doctors where they had the nerve to weigh me!!
It was a shock to see that weight. I have dropped a couple of pound which is encouraging. Mostly I am just trying to eat more fruits & veggies, less indulgence in those tasty treats. Yesterday I kind of fell off the wagon but a day now & then won’t hurt me. One tip I saw on some show is that if you eat a salad or a small bowl of a vegetable soup before your main entree you will eat less. The salad is filling but not fattening. Usually in the winter I don’t eat as much salad but I have been trying to have it more often and eat smaller portions of the main meal. Thank heavens I have never been much of a soda drinker, I drink water all day long which my doctor said to keep up.
Good luck everyone.
Comment
Whew! Thanks, Julie :-))
Cher
Comment
I can’t really think of any real vices I have aside from binge reading…
When it comes to food, I mostly eat healthy and only cheat on very seldom occasions with a meal of a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger from Wendy’s paired with their mandarin oranges and Lite Lemonade. In all of last year, I probably had 3 of those cheats.
Comment
ICE CREAM! To cut back on the damage, I get the little cups which hold about 1/2 cup.
That way even if I eat 2, it is still less than if I were to serve myself from a 1/2 gallon
container!!
Pat Cochran
Comment
My vice is jelly beans. Love’em.
Comment
My two vices are food and reading.
Comment
I am trying to be a recovering “junk” food addict.
I am on day 22 of my New Years resolution. My only vice at the moment is my diet Coke in the morning.
Comment
Oh Tricia, get well soon! :hug2:
Comment
Julie,
My parents live in Naples, FL and they told me the other morning was 38 degrees. Thats cold for Florida. :freezin
My vices are sweets and junk food. I really need to see a nutrionist because I have been sedentary at work and I realized the pounds are staying on and not coming off. I think I am gonna hit the gym again.
Comment
I know I cant wait…