Abigail...starting and failing

[Guest guest]

Thanks Abigail! I wonder what it is that makes us fall so easily? Perhaps we

merely need to affirm - daily - that this is really what we know to be the

best way for us...and that we willingly walk this road to health. I have

often to wrestle the deprivation demon, but it was Terry who once said that

we have to make up our minds as to how much more we want to be slim and

healthy than eating that forbidden food....well, not in those words...but

the same idea. I have a severe allergy (and no doubt, addiction) to wine and

carbs and constantly have to fight the lure...and I know it's all in the

mind. How about we make up our own little motivational mantras pertaining to

our own personal struggles? The more we tell our brains how successful we

are, the more it will toe the line!! One day at a time. Perhaps it sounds

absurd in the beginning to say how gorgeous we are - how slim, fit and

healthy - dedicated and determined to boot! - but how we will know if we

don't at least try....so - let's agree to wake up in the morning and look in

that mirror with love and caring and act accordingly...how about it? I need

it as much as anyone!...........) We CAN do this!!

Love

Marloe

[Guest guest]

Marloe, you said all. We CAN do this. Just remember one minute on the

lip forever on the hip. Those forbidden foods only taste good for a

second and we feel miserable for days when we eat them. It in not worth

the grief we go thru.

Laverne

[Guest guest]

I'm not so sure why it is that difficult to say no to things we don't

really want or need (actually, we may want them but that want is just

to temporarily fill a craving that won't really satisfy). A person

in the business I'm in said that we go through stages when we are

learing something

1 -- awkward

2 -- mechanical

3 -- natural

I guess we are all striving to get to the natural stage. For each

person that may be a different length of time.

Another quote that I like is " It's not that the nature of what you do

will become easier, it's that your ability to do it will become

greater " . I hope that my ability to do this way of eating will

become greater in the near future

Abigail

> Thanks Abigail! I wonder what it is that makes us fall so easily?

Perhaps we merely need to affirm - daily - that this is really what

we know to be the best way for us...and that we willingly walk this

road to health. I have often to wrestle the deprivation demon, but it

was Terry who once said that we have to make up our minds as to how

much more we want to be slim and healthy than eating that forbidden

food....well, not in those words...but the same idea. I have a severe

allergy (and no doubt, addiction) to wine and carbs and constantly

have to fight the lure...and I know it's all in the mind. How about

we make up our own little motivational mantras pertaining to our own

personal struggles? The more we tell our brains how successful we

are, the more it will toe the line!! One day at a time. Perhaps it

sounds absurd in the beginning to say how gorgeous we are - how slim,

fit and healthy - dedicated and determined to boot! - but how we will

know if we don't at least try....so - let's agree to wake up in the

morning and look in that mirror with love and caring and act

accordingly...how about it? I need it as much as

anyone!...........) We CAN do this!!

>

> Love

> Marloe