Gained three pounds after my son's bday party on Saturday. Was the potato salad I accidently put on my plate. Would have let it stand but the lady who brought it was staring at me. No, I didn't have any cake.

I've only cheated about 3 times in the last five months and have always been craving sugar afterwards for a few days. Took 50 mg vitamin B's and chromium to make cravings go away.

Don't cheat if you can get away with it but if you do here are the 'rules' I've come up with for mine:

cheat only with low g.i. food (all bran, fruit (my weakness is dried), yogurt, cottage cheese) and make it a lowfat meal. Then your blood sugar/insulin won't spike and you shouldn't gain. But you will stall. Wait three hours before eating fat again. And you can only do a low Gi. carb cheat if it is 4 hours after having fat, so that it is digested first.