Choices, I'm sorry you deleted your message.
I have a feeling we all could have benefitted!
My hard truth today is that Sandi's quote/sig is, as always, SO true: "If you want it, you'll find a way and if you don't, you'll find an excuse." I don't want it, really, right now...because I'm finding excuses. It's frustrating to want it in my head but not in my heart, because I'm hating the results of not being on track.
But if I try to force myself to get on track when I don't really want to, I just end up sabotaging myself, feeling guilty and angry and sad, and eating more. It makes more sense to, as my therapist says, 'triage' and try to maintain/eat as healthy as possible/stay as close to plan as possible/exercise as much as I can and try to figure out WHY I'm not wanting to lose. Uggh!
Another real hard truth for me today is this quote I read a couple days ago:
Quote:
"One cardinal rule in behavioral medicine is that unless it is interfered with, your body knows exactly what it is doing and always does the best thing it can do under the circumstances. Consequently, if you are overweight, you may reasonably assume that the extra fat itself is your body's best adjustment to the circumstances you are providing."
-Jill Johnson
This quote does NOT mean that our bodies are right and that being fat is a natural thing for some of us. What it DOES mean is that when our life is crazy and we are not taking care of ourselves...when the emotional part of our life overtakes our natural inclination to care for our body and soul and treat them right...our body copes as best as it can. If we're fat, it's a side effect of what's going on in our life and in our hearts. As Oprah so succintly put it, they're "pounds of pain" not just pounds of fat. Sometimes I wish it were so cut and dried as energy in and out...but if that were the case, all of us logical, sensible people would be skinny! There's also the emotional component, and if we don't deal with it, eventually we backslide...and that's where I am.
I wish knowing all that made it easier to get out, but so far, no go. I do know, though, that this time, I can't just power through and ignore how I feel...I have to get right with me to truly lose the rest of this weight,
and keep it from coming back.
Any ideas, Beach friends, on how to deal with the emotional stuff?