mudpies
11-21-2001, 04:06 AM
Scooterlady
Private Buddy
Posts: 25
Registered: Jan 2001
posted 01-19-2001 03:21 PM
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Good Afternoon Bootcamp Buddies,
I was thinking this afternoon about the importance of my food plan. It has to be the most important thing right now, no matter what. Each time I let myself forget that, I risk not finding my way back to the path. There are many out there who have never found their way back and actually die.
I have to remind myself that this is a killer disease. My top weight was 232 pounds. That was a lot of weight on my 5 foot frame, but it really hadn't made a big impact on my health. I have heard stories of those who have nearly died.
When I start thinking that those things haven't happened to me, I need to remember to add the word "yet" to the end of those statements. Example: I haven't nearly died, yet. I haven't been unable to leave my house, yet. I don't have to go any further down unless I chose to use food as a drug again.
If I were really hungry and there were no food in my house, except for a box of rat poison, would I eat the poison? Absolutely not! It wouldn't matter to me whether they had made the rat poison to taste like my most favorite sugary substance...I would not eat it. Why is that? Well, because I know without a doubt that rat poison will kill me and that hunger won't.
I have to remind myself that using food as a drug instead of a nutrition will also kill me. I have to know that binging will eventually kill me. I prefer to learn my lessons gently through other people's experience. This is one lesson I seem to have learned. For today, I am not willing to risk myself in order to keep the relationship with the active disease of compulsively eating everything in sight.
And that's all I have....today. I can do anything for one day, that would seem impossible to do for a lifetime. For today...what do you choose?...life or death?
I hope this didn't sound like a downer. I am doing really well and am really flying high on how good I feel using the Weight Watchers program. I was just so committed to my new food plan and wanted to share that with all of you. I believe that whatever I focus on governs my life. When I am into the food, the food governs me. Today, I am focused on my life and all my blessings. The food isn't governing me and Weight Watchers was the key.
Have a great evening, unless of course you have other plans. Linda in Springfield, Mo
Private Buddy
Posts: 25
Registered: Jan 2001
posted 01-19-2001 03:21 PM
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Good Afternoon Bootcamp Buddies,
I was thinking this afternoon about the importance of my food plan. It has to be the most important thing right now, no matter what. Each time I let myself forget that, I risk not finding my way back to the path. There are many out there who have never found their way back and actually die.
I have to remind myself that this is a killer disease. My top weight was 232 pounds. That was a lot of weight on my 5 foot frame, but it really hadn't made a big impact on my health. I have heard stories of those who have nearly died.
When I start thinking that those things haven't happened to me, I need to remember to add the word "yet" to the end of those statements. Example: I haven't nearly died, yet. I haven't been unable to leave my house, yet. I don't have to go any further down unless I chose to use food as a drug again.
If I were really hungry and there were no food in my house, except for a box of rat poison, would I eat the poison? Absolutely not! It wouldn't matter to me whether they had made the rat poison to taste like my most favorite sugary substance...I would not eat it. Why is that? Well, because I know without a doubt that rat poison will kill me and that hunger won't.
I have to remind myself that using food as a drug instead of a nutrition will also kill me. I have to know that binging will eventually kill me. I prefer to learn my lessons gently through other people's experience. This is one lesson I seem to have learned. For today, I am not willing to risk myself in order to keep the relationship with the active disease of compulsively eating everything in sight.
And that's all I have....today. I can do anything for one day, that would seem impossible to do for a lifetime. For today...what do you choose?...life or death?
I hope this didn't sound like a downer. I am doing really well and am really flying high on how good I feel using the Weight Watchers program. I was just so committed to my new food plan and wanted to share that with all of you. I believe that whatever I focus on governs my life. When I am into the food, the food governs me. Today, I am focused on my life and all my blessings. The food isn't governing me and Weight Watchers was the key.
Have a great evening, unless of course you have other plans. Linda in Springfield, Mo