Very nice post Rebelle
Wannabehealthy:
"I do want to. I want to wake up tomorrow weighing 130, but he's right, that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.....I apparently don't want to do what is necessary."
Choices. yup
Choices. We have to choose when we can have one or the other, the beautiful cake or eat it... Narcissism. Wanting pleasure
NOW. Satisfy that desire to eat something we don't need right now but want and satisfying that need
NOW, or losing weight, which will not show up for a looooooooooooooooooooong time
Dang. But how we hate to wait When we start to eat that treat we do not need, but WANT, it may help to stop and think, do I want that so bad that it will stick with me forever???
Choices choices. We gain weight one bite at a time to get that
instant gratification. We lose weight by not taking that bite, a tiny bit at a time and SLOOOOOOOOOOOW.
And for your thoughts about Mrs. Snark.... Yes, she sure is photogenic
And I will tell everyone right now... I will give a $500. reward to anybody who snags her hat and sends it to me
And Joy, add this to your secret list please eh
11/30 207.2 calories.. 992
12/01 206.4 calories 1120
12/02 206.2 calories.. 990
12/03 205.2 calories 1450
12/04 208.2 calories.. 845
12/05 207.4 calories 1055
12/06 206.2
Goal weight 193, 13 lbs off, no more going over 2200 max even on insane days
B F R
I will try to make another post relating for those of you who are going to or are trying to abstain from alcohol, of you now. And you could include me also as I have been "abstaining" from alcohol for some 21 1/2 years now, and frankly, was one of the best if not the best thing I have done for myself.
Arianna, Mrs Snark, Rebelle, NoNameSlob--- I totally support you on your endeavers to abstain
Before I make that next post on alcohol/addiction related things, I will tell you this short one. In 1976 I had been trying to "quit" smoking for a long over a couple years. I was unable to. One day I ran out of cigs (and beer) and was headed home from work, very tired after a long day in construction. From where I was constructing 5 large homes I either took the freeway entrance a short distance from me or if I wanted some beer to drive home with (usually the case) I would go straight, a short distance of about another half mile further up to the liquor store. I forgot as I got to the entrance, took it... and as I was going up the onramp I recalled I was going to go to the liquor store. GRRRRRRRR called myself a few names, and knew I had to crawl about 5 mph in stop and go freeway traffic heading towards Los Angeles from San Jaun Capistrano. A bout 3 miles up to the offramp, then 3 miles back through almost as slow downtown-just-getting-off-work traffic, get the cigs and beer, then crawl back 3 miles of bumper to bumper traffic and stop lights to get back on the stop and go fwy traffic for some 30 miles!! (The lengths we will go through to feed our addictions
)
The traffic picked up on the fwy a bit, was going the fantastic speed of nearly 20 MPH heading towards that offramp. I thought about it.... traffic was now going about 20, and it was only 12 miles to the next place I could get off and get cigs and beer. I did. But as I approached that off ramp the traffic was going about 45. I go, hmmmm, I wonder if I can just do without for another 20 minutes and get off in Tustin and get some. So I went for that. Then I passed that one up as I wondered if I could wait to get them at the liquor store near the fwy exit to where I lived another 20 minutes. I passed it and went on. As I said, I was very tired. And lo and behold, when I got off my home exit, I made a left turn towards home from habit, then it hit me that I had blundered again, I had to either go back or go past the turn to my house to the next liquor store (I knew where every liquor store was in Orange county) and get my cigs and beer. I approached where I would turn to my house.... and thought gee... I wonder if I can make it till after dinner then go get them. I did. And after dinner I wondered if I could wait till morning. And the next morning if I could wait till I got near where I worked. ... EtC. And for the next 7 months I went like that, putting them off one thing at a time, one minute at a time, one turn at a time. But the only reason I was not drinking was that I knew that if I drank I would smoke, and it was the smoking that I wanted desperately to stop doing. I had been smoking 4 packs a day, killing myself. Anyway, for 7 months I did not drink to ensure getting that smoking under control, and by "under control" I mean only not smoking.
I finally accepted a beer after work one day and sipped it, taking it slow and watching to see it's affect on getting a desire for a cigarette. It was OK. I resumed drinking, but kept it to a minimum for some time making sure a desire to smoke would not get to me. Well, 41 years later, I still have not bought that pack of cigarettes
I wish I had of been smart enough to realize I also had a problem with alcohol, but it is soooooo easy to be oblivious to that when, after all, we do not want to stop drinking. I finally found that it was a huge problem in my life and stopped, similar to stopping smoking, but MUCH easier than stopping smoking.
So while you ladies are not imbiding in order to control the eating problem, you might take a look at your drinking.... It may be a larger problem than you think it is. Stopping drinking was the second best thing I ever did for myself. Smoking was number one.
From all my heart, I wish you success with all you have to contend with and the ability to detect those things early in life.
B F R
PS Looks like I made that post I was going to make later
And I am not going to re-read all that right now to correct my mistakes, and I know I made some, I always to nowadays, will read and edit it later.
