's motd Tuesday May 24, 2011

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TALKING

YOURSELF...OUT OF IT!

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

No

matter where you turn, there'll be food tempations

waiting for you. And, oh yes, they'll be demanding your

attention always, for the rest of your life. Now the

bottom line is that you can give in to those temptations

or...you can talk yourself out of them. Let me

give you a few examples.

You're

driving down the street and a big new billboard

grabs your attention. (Gasp!) It's a giant

photo of a hamburger, not with one slice of beef, or

even two slices, mind you. This burger has three big-old

beef patties. (Oh, my!) The picture of that burger is

so lifelike, it feels like you can just eat it right off

the billboard! LOL. Mmmm, that special

mayoniase-based sauce is dripping off the sides and you

see one slice of cheese after another tucked between

each of the three beef patties. And, oh my, it's loaded

with crispy slices of bacon, too! Is your mouth

watering at the thought of stopping to get yourself

one? NO! In fact, you begin having a little

talk with yourself about why you shouldn't stop

and have one of those burgers.

That isn't a hamburger. It's an artery-clogging

hunk of fast food that doesn't belong in my body!

There's no way I should be having one of those. My

cholestrol is already high and I can only imagine what

eating one of them will do to my numbers!

Just

across the street from where you work, there's an

authentic family-owned pizzeria. They specialize in

gourmet pizza and make the best in town. As you leave

work, you can smell those pizzas baking away in their

special brick ovens. And oh-oh, temptation is getting

the best of you. One day after work, as you take the

first steps across the street to that pizzeria, it's

almost as if you can already taste the pizza you're

going to order. It'll have three kinds of meat, lots of

gooey cheese and oh, that sauce of theirs...you

can't wait! But wait...you must wait! That

smart little voice in your head begins talking to you

again!

Do you know how many calories and fat grams will be

in just one slice of that pizza? And come one, when

have you or anyone else ever stopped at having just one

slice of pizza, huh? And think about what those

slices of pizza will do to your waistline?

You're at the supermarket and on every aisle, it seems

there's some new food they want you to sample! They

have everything from those little mini-hot dogs, to a

new ice cream flavor for you to taste. And oh my, they

even have an oven on one of the aisles where they're

baking up hot toll-house cookies for you to try. You

overhear the lady serving up the cookies tell one

customer, "Yes Mam, you can find then right over

there with the other refridgerated desserts. All you

have to do is slice and bake them!"

Isn't it funny? Those little bite-size snacks

they're offering may look innocent enough.

But if you add up the calories from all of them, your

little afternoon of grocery shopping could end up

costing you enough calories for an entire meal! Sounds

like it's time for another one of those little talks

with yourself.

Hey!

Don't be sampling all of those foods! You've worked

hard all week eating healthy and exercising. Don't

you dare blow all of that effort because this

supermarket is offering up these "Thumbelina" foods!

80 calories here, 100 calories there and, before you

know it, you could "innocently" consume 1,000

calories! You've got another 45 pounds to lose and

trying all of these foods is not going to help you get

there!

Hey, just like you, I face food temptations everyday,

too. But...my willpower is stronger than my taste

buds. And it feels good when you talk yourself

out of those foods. I want you to practice having these

little talks with yourself beginning today.

And when you do, you'll end up being so proud of

yourself...in a very big way!

Love,