Cmon, Mary....don't tell me you've never experienced that way of thinking in your battle of weight loss?  I think it's much more unusual to have never thought that way then to have experienced it and realized it's a self sabotager!!

Wow, now ain't I glad I asked the question...very inciteful conversation ladies!  Sherrie believe it or not, this particular sabotager was a thought process that never occurred to me.  Not that I didn't have my own personal set of self sabotagers, I just didn't have this particular one!  ;-) 

Now it seems odd to me that I didn't because both of my parents rewarded their children with goodies...a lot.  Cooking "special" was my mother's way of showing she loved us, but then again she was also feeding her own addiction so these meals were a way of hiding what she was going through.  My dad was in the Army and gone most of the time so when he was home it was "Candy Time"!!!

I guess I never thought in terms of cheating, I was an emotional eater out of control so I was more in tune with what was triggering my emotional eating.  Come to find out, it was hormones that were my emotions worst enemy, once they were fixed, I 'mostly' got fixed.  Mostly being the operative word...this is a lifelong journey, afterall!

Mary