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Do you look at your WOE as a burden? Do you fret and worry everytime you go to the grocery store? Do you hee-haw around everyday and try to think up reasons not to exercise? Do you come to the ADBB and feel like everyone here doesn't understand or have the problems that you have?
THINK AGAIN. I was in that UGLY thinking once. I had to re-program my thoughts and attitude. Through a lot of self analysis I changed the way I thought about this WOE. I am not being punished for being fat. I always thought I was. I had to diet because I was fat. I had to exercise because I was fat. (However when I did go out exercising...I would see thin people running or exercising and think they were nuts) Now, I see that they were in a WOL that kept them thin and feeling great.
What I'm trying to say here is that we all need to re-program the little voices in our heads. Be thankful for Dr. Atkin's WOE. It works. Use your exercise time as your YOU TIME. Exercise releases the pressures and stress that we all have. Learn to look forward to walking, running, going to the gym, doing that workout tape. Its all how you look at it. Doing it everyday with zest will begin making it a habit and soon you won't feel like you are being punished because of your weight.
Get some affirmations and tape them up in your bathroom or bedroom or kitchen. If you see positive quotes or phrases and read them everyday, you will begin to live up to those positive images they create in our minds. It took me a while to learn this lesson - but repeating this step everyday makes it easier and comfortable.
Know what foods you can eat on your WOE. Take the induction list or the OWL list with you. Learn it, and what recipes you can make. Soon, you'll buzz throught the store and not even think about stopping at the aisles that contain foods you can't eat. If your family needs potatoes and bread, thats fine. You can pick up a few items that aren't on your list without going nuts and jumping off the wagon. Its not so much willpower as the DESIRE to change. The only way to lose the weight is to make changes in your life. The only way to change things that you aren't happy with is to create new habits. ADBB can help us as we create those new healthy habits.
THINK AGAIN. I was in that UGLY thinking once. I had to re-program my thoughts and attitude. Through a lot of self analysis I changed the way I thought about this WOE. I am not being punished for being fat. I always thought I was. I had to diet because I was fat. I had to exercise because I was fat. (However when I did go out exercising...I would see thin people running or exercising and think they were nuts) Now, I see that they were in a WOL that kept them thin and feeling great.
What I'm trying to say here is that we all need to re-program the little voices in our heads. Be thankful for Dr. Atkin's WOE. It works. Use your exercise time as your YOU TIME. Exercise releases the pressures and stress that we all have. Learn to look forward to walking, running, going to the gym, doing that workout tape. Its all how you look at it. Doing it everyday with zest will begin making it a habit and soon you won't feel like you are being punished because of your weight.
Get some affirmations and tape them up in your bathroom or bedroom or kitchen. If you see positive quotes or phrases and read them everyday, you will begin to live up to those positive images they create in our minds. It took me a while to learn this lesson - but repeating this step everyday makes it easier and comfortable.
Know what foods you can eat on your WOE. Take the induction list or the OWL list with you. Learn it, and what recipes you can make. Soon, you'll buzz throught the store and not even think about stopping at the aisles that contain foods you can't eat. If your family needs potatoes and bread, thats fine. You can pick up a few items that aren't on your list without going nuts and jumping off the wagon. Its not so much willpower as the DESIRE to change. The only way to lose the weight is to make changes in your life. The only way to change things that you aren't happy with is to create new habits. ADBB can help us as we create those new healthy habits.
..... What diet would allow me to eat all the fatty pieces on the steak if I wanted to? Or have salami and cream cheese with onions and olives? The answer is: the only WOE that I can lose weight on - Atkins. Funny how I naturally wanted to eat this way as a kid - I wanted all the goodies between 2 slices of bread, pizza toppings, etc. and was retrained to eat the bread with it 
. Sometimes parents can be wrong.....
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