taps my nails, just tell me NO lol please

[ValidRouge]

Re: taps my nails, just tell me NO lol please

This is a great thread. There've been quite a few threads over the last week or so where people say I have to eat ___________ because of my family, friends, coworkers. etc. They even say that they don't trust that we don't partake of the food.

This thread shows how we avoid it. This thread shows why we achieve success. Sher, you will achieve success because you are dealing in life. You're not avoiding it. You're accepting the way it is for society and the way it is for you.

[abstractillusions]

Re: taps my nails, just tell me NO lol please

laughs another of the quote people (quotes in siggys that give me a duhh factor and make me change my thinking) that is awesome. Joy, you were the one i saw the quote you can have excuses or your can have results but you can't have both.!!! i love it! Because everytime i read one of your posts it inspires me along with your words.

Yes, i think its been those discussions lately where it seems like people feel they have to restrict their life because of this way of life or cause the restrictions to loved ones and friends because of their choice to change their way of eating have given me the determination not to be held prisoner by my choice of this way of eating and my weight. i don't want to be restricted from me or my friends and loved ones enjoying themselves because of food. i don't think that's what Dr. A wanted either. i don't want my friends to start leaving me out so they can go someplace without having to worry about me risking temptation (make my decision for me because i always say "i can't eat that or can't go there cause of the food). I want them to feel comfortable and we all go where the whole group wants to go. i wouldn't want my loved ones to feel guilty because THEY want to go someplace to eat and i make it such an issue because my way of eating isn't catered too that the enjoyment is lost for my loved one. i don't want to not go to gatherings or such and miss out on the socializing and commeraderie.

I have let food control my life for way to long, changing my way of eating should free me not restrict me. i didn't intend for this thread to reach this far , i justed needed a reinforcement of NO lol but after i was reading those other discussions and then i made a plan and still enjoyed myself without giving into temptation, i wanted to express it and i really appreciate those coming in discussing and giving their input and successes.

This lifestyle and ourselves are freeing us from a prison of our own making, don't undo the good of that by exchanging one prison for another.

[2big4mysize]

Re: taps my nails, just tell me NO lol please

ROLF I mean over your clothes not on your bare skin LOL got to watch the wording of that from now on

congrats on learning that itr is the love and freindship you share with the folk in the room you are celebrating not the love of the food being served.

you will be surpeized when you get invited to a dinner if you talk with the hostess about what she is serving you can often offer to bring an Atkins acceptable dish to make the sinner something you can have and they will not turn you down. I have brought veggie didhes to many dinner and never had anything left over to take home should the hostess not want to keep it. It isn't a matter of changing their ways as it is having them accept your new way of eating when making plans. When viewed as a medical issue there isn't a hostess I know that would want to seve me anything to make me ill.

[abstractillusions]

Re: taps my nails, just tell me NO lol please

whistles and looks innocent at laughing 2big.... and winks.


Yes, i do the same when i am actually social lol which i a m not as of yet, i have over 2000 LC recipes in 3 inch notebooks printed out as well as tons of cookbooks so i would never be lacking in recipes. Now if only i learned out to COOK lol