Re: I have made progress-THANK YOU SO MUCH!

July 19, 2002

> Ok, I have to correct myself a little. I posted before I hadn't

made

> any " huge progress " , well I need to correc that to visable

progress.

> I've made great gains as far as mental progress and feeling better

> overall. I'm an emotional eater/binger; get me overstressed and I

> RUN to chocolate or Zimas if I'm home and then to keep my calories

> down skip 2-3 meals..yea now that's the definition of UNHEALTHY!

> This week has been a killer week. Tuesday night I was in tears with

> some personal stuff going on and as much as I thought I wanted a

> Zima, I realized I'd rather feel better than " drown my sorrows " .

And

> then today I had a big blow up at work with a new employee (even

the

> Office Manager and VP came over to apologize for his behavior). In

> the past, I would have raced down to that vending machine and

gotten

> 2-3 bags of M & Ms or found the leftover German Chocolate Cake...but

I

> have noticed that I don't have those " urges " as often as I used to.

> They do cross my mind (haven't gotten quite that far yet), but it

is

> getting easier to say to myself, " Colleen what do you really want,

> how BAD do you want it? " and I realize NOOO I don't want crap, I

want

> to feel good and look good and you know what...it feels damn good

> when I succeed like that Only I can decide whether to succeed

or

> not and dang it all, I WILL SUCCEED!! Just thought I'd share

again.

> I'm feeling very chatty today!

>

> Colleen

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