Charlie...Re: Diet Slip-ups Don't Spell Doom

[Guest guest]

Hi Charlie, yep, I agree with you about the first part of this

article. When I responded early this morning, I was talking about the

second part, " Zero Hour " and how it just clicked in one day, hey stop

doing this to yourself. Get a good plan and stop yo-yo-ing. I have

done that, and I find it the natural way to live. Not taking a day or

a week or two off. Whats that a vacation? Sure I have slips, but I

sure don't think of it as having a day off and I never plan them. But

I am not perfect and every day is a new morn. So if a slip happens I

need to get re-focused now. WW is a great plan and very doable when

one is ready..Best to ya....Kallie

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In Serious-Weight-Watchers , " Charlie " <ces1948@y...>

wrote:

> I guess the only problem I see with this article is the " Taking

time off "

> aspect. We all talk about WW being a lifestyle not a diet. I

wouldn't think

> you would take a break from your lifestyle. Now it seems most of

you are

> interperting this article differently than I am, in that it is only

> encouraging you to get back on track if you " fall of the wagon " . I

certainly

> support that concept but I get the feeling the article is talking

about a

> diet not a lifestyle change.

>

> Charlie

> ..................................................................

> > Diet Slip-ups Don't Spell Doom

> > Diet Slip-ups Don't Spell Doom

> > Enjoy an occasional splurge then get back on track

> > by Michele Stanten

> > It happens--a piece of cheesecake here, a missed workout there.

> > But diet detours needn't become guilt-wracked weight loss

disasters.

> >

> > Proof: When researchers put 142 overweight people on the same

> > weight loss program, one group followed it for 14 straight weeks;

> > another took a 6-week hiatus at the midpoint; the final group

> > took a 2-week break every few weeks. Eleven months later,

> > everybody had lost an average of 16 pounds.

> >

> > " It's not the breaks that hurt weight loss efforts, " says study

> > author Rena Wing, PhD, of Brown University Medical School. " It's

> > your negative reactions to the breaks and the subsequent downward

> > spiraling. " So enjoy your time off, and then get back on track.

> >

> > ***********

> > " Zero hour " is that crucial moment when there is no turning back,

> > and it confronts you to the very core of your self-respect. You

> > have become so sick of your habits and your pattern of living

> > that you realize you can no longer live your life in that way.

> > It's what alcoholics call " hitting rock bottom, " or what others

> > call " reaching the end of my rope. " It's when you make your mind

> > up that it's not too late, that you deserve more, and that you

> > will deny yourself no longer. It's when you wipe the slate clean

> > and are ready to start over. It's when you decide to reclaim your

> > health and your life. This means that being overweight has taken

> > on a special standing and urgency, lifting high above your other

> > concerns in life. You have boldly said to yourself: " That's

> > enough. I don't care how much it hurts to change. I don't care

> > what I have to give up. I won't take this another second, another

> > minute, another day of my life. I am ready. "