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I had a thin friend? And she wasn’t just thin, but she was healthy. She was beautiful. She drove me crazy.
Here’s why she drove me crazy. The woman always ate well! Always. We’d go out lunch together and she would always order the salad. I’d feel guilty, and change my order from the chicken mayo sandwich with crisps, to salad. So we’d crunch and munch together, her happily, and me sadly.
She also drove me crazy because she never sat down. She was always bustling around doing something. I just wanted to sit on the couch and visit. But no, we had to go to the park, or take a walk, or shop for hours at a time. Never just sit.
Once I gained weight, and went from average sized to morbidly obese, I was still friends with her. We’d still go to lunch, and she’d still have a salad. I never ordered the salad anymore though. I just got what I wanted, because it didn’t seem to matter how hard I tried, I could never be like her.
She enjoyed cooking, loved to entertain, but didn’t blow up like a balloon as I did. She knew how to enjoy food.
What came naturally to her, I had to work at. In fact, during the year of my weight loss attempts, when I’d get discouraged, or unsure of what I should be doing, I think of her. What would she do!
Her relationship with food isn't an emotional relationship like mine is.
Here’s 10 things she did differently than I did:
- Ate slowly
- Make healthy choices
- Cooked from scratch
- Ate processed foods in moderation
- Exercised regularly
- Moved a lot during the day
- Didn’t obsess over food
- Ate something sweet when she wanted to
- Enjoyed her food
- Always worked to get more fit, not just stay thin
She certainly would not be putting herself through this extreme regime, but extreme as it is I have to do it to try and regain some balance. Whilst I am not 'eating' I'm thinking, its slowing my fast brain (and mouth :17729
down to think about how slim people manage and I do not.
So, we fail because of the 10 steps above. We do not seem able to be able to follow them after CD.
Hopefully I will succeed this time.
That's the plan and I'm sticking to it!!!