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Hmmm maybe it really was all that chinese- my husband says I am WAY too hard on myself. He says I barely touched anything all weekend (though why do I lately just feel like such a heifer?) and he’s sure it’s sodium and nothing else. He was like you’ve gone down a pant size AND TWO shirt sizes (I started at XL and am now down to M), lighten up on yourself! In a way he’s right- I need to lighten up in terms of not being so hard on myself- maybe I stress myself out so much about weight loss that I’m hindering my results?
So yesterday my second book came in, Conquer Your Food Addiction : The Ehrlich 8-Step Program for Permanent Weight Loss by Caryl Ehrlich. So far I’m already liking it a MILLION times more than the first book because it talks about how addictive behaviors are learned and so on- I’m only a few pages in. but so far it looks promising. It talks about how over-eating is something learned. How we learn these bad habits and then how we can get rid of them. She has many quotes and I’m paraphrasing but one thing she said was “to obtain what you never had, you must do what you have never done.”
WOW- that hit me like a freaking truck- I literally stopped and kept reading that quote OVER and over! To obtain- okay to get- what I’ve never had- yeah being thin- then I must do what I haven’t done before- okay that would be stick to the healthier eating AND working out, okay got it. Okay so to get thin I have to exercise and eat right!
I know it’s like DUH- but really for some reason that quote just screamed at me lol.
So today’s agenda- stop being so hard on myself and continue to do my best and RELAX!
Aren’t break-throughs awesome???
I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend “The Solution” by Laurel Mellin. It’s an AMAZING book and really helping me with the emotional side of overeating. It teaches you how to re-train yourself; how to stop grabbing food automatically when it’s really some other emotional need/feeling you need to address. And so, so much more. She’s morphed that book into a whole system, and it doesn’t relate only to being overweight. Do yourself a favor and grab the book. 
You are doing great, and Mr. Beerab is absolutely right! I’m very, very proud of you!
I LOVE this quote! I will have to check out this book as well as the one Sunny references above. I was actually about to do my blog for today and talk about sodium, so i completely hear you on the chinese food and effect of sodium. Don’t get discouraged-it sounds like you’ve been doing incredibly well.
The book sounds awesome, I’m heading to the library this week to see if they have it.
And I loved the cartoon, btw! How true
Like the quote love the cartoon!