[MyChoice2bfit]

Originally Posted by rockinrobin

I would ask you this - is it really all that comforting?

Don't you deserve TRUE comfort? The comfort of good health, self confidence, self worth, self respect, choices, an easier, simpler, less worrisome life? With waaaay fewer aches and pains, the best chance at a disease free life, the optimal you?

I don't know, from what you just briefly described, it doesn't sound as if you are so comforted and comfortable.

I do know where you're coming from though. I too used food to comfort myself and to distance myself from people. But then the price became too high. The consequences outweighed the benefits. I was missing out on too much and life is just too darn short.

And wouldn't you know it? Now, I now find comfort all day long and into the night - not just the short temporary *comfort* of food - by being slim, trim, healthy and just the knowledge that I am *doing right* by my body.

The hardest part is starting and the anticipation of *having to give up so much*. But you will be gaining sooooo much more. You must hang onto that fact. And once you get into it, not stopping and starting like you do when you say that you lose 5 lbs and than regain them - but by continuing on, working past the discomfort of establishing new healthy habits, you will see that it's not so bad. In fact you will discover that adhering to a healthy lifestyle IS the true comfort. And it is nothing to dread, but something to celebrate and revel in. Because it's a wonderful way to live.

Thank you for sharing this...I really needed it today.