Re: This Free Day Thing

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Thoughts on This Free day thing! "

I can't take credit for this....but I would like to pass it along, because it

really " registered with me. " ..

I've got a couple of dogs...and I just lov' em...I try to make sure that they

get up in the monring and get a quick walk before work...I feed them, not that

crap they sell at the grocery store dog feed...but, I get them the " good

stuff... " high quality, etc...I don't want them eating junk food and getting all

fat, and pudgy, it just isn't healthy for them.....and as soon as I come home

after work.. the first thing I do is to take them for a " better walk " then they

had in the morning...THE POINT...I take good care of my dog...and I should take

at least as good care of myself...Think of the phrase " Y-O-U-R-S-E-L-F " AND TAKE

CARE OF " your " " self " ...YOUR PERSON, take care of YOU!....

~Lynne

" Mounts, " <.Mounts@...> wrote:

Excellent suggestion!

shelley

Re: This Free Day Thing

Aliza -

Another way of thinking about this is..... for whatever reason,

overeating

is a way you have taken care of yourself for many years. It was a

method

you used to comfort yourself. Personally, I never found the

self-hatred

to be very effective. So I decided to try other methods.

Instead of reprimanding yourself the day after Freeday, deliberately

plan ahead of time to do something nice for yourself (not related to

food) on that day. Find new ways to nurture and care for yourself.

I believe you're a student, so I assume your budget is tight. But a

trip to a used clothing store might find a pair of jeans for $5. Or a

trip to & Noble to look at fashion books of what not to wear. Or

a manicure/pedicure (professional or just yourself). Our local college

has a massage center, and the students there are giving 55 minute

massages for 20 minutes. Hair cutting schools do similar things. Or

perhaps it is as simple as grocery shopping for the ingredients for a

BFL-approved recipe, and making dinner for a friend or two. Volunteer

to help at a soup kitchen, or reading to pre-schoolers. Buy a new

flavor of tea.

In other words, plan something - anything - for the day-after-freeday.

And switch your focus from what you did or didn't do, to something nice.

HTH

n

At 04:17 PM 1/31/2006, you wrote:

><SNIP> The thing is, the free day, in the end, really screws me up.

>Cuz I eat whatever I want, and sometimes I dont stop. And every Monday

>morning I think about how disgusting I am, and how after years and

>years of hard work I'm still the same slave to food that I was all

>those years ago. Its really depressing and it makes it :-\) <SNIP>