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I feel like I have been stuck at my current weight for a while now, seeing a shift to the left and a shift to the right! 1 pound on either side...I am getting frustrated with that, so I went to the doctor! It bares quoting because He makes a good bit of sense to my high strung "want it now" attitude...
"Remember 2 things: First your body is not a machine. Nor is it a duplicate of anyone else's body. It has it's own system, it's own agenda, and its own timetable. In the long run, it nearly always responds to sensible managment by the person in charge- you. But, in the short run, your body may decide to go it's own way, for it's own reasons, which perhaps we dont understand. Don't get mad at it. It's a good body or it wouldn't have gotten you this far. Be patient, you can afford to outwait it!
I told my daughter I was tired and cranky and I had a goal darnit, and I wanted it to happen, and I was doing alot to make it happen...She smiled and told me, "well those are just feelings mom"...
I can afford to outwait it. I like that line. What other options do we have, starve ourselves??? I don't think that will work, plus it makes things dangerous, I act badly with food when I am starved...I never allow myself to be starved...
What other choice do I have, I am exercising all I can. I am drinking all the water I can. I guess it's all about controlling the emotions and outwaiting what my body is doing...
I think I'll make myself listen to the good doctor, so hard his whole plan has taken me to a great place, I could not get to on my own! I am gonna outwait this one!
****After re-reading this, I realized I forgot the doctor's name Robert C Atkins, M.D. Chapter 15 DANDR****
"Remember 2 things: First your body is not a machine. Nor is it a duplicate of anyone else's body. It has it's own system, it's own agenda, and its own timetable. In the long run, it nearly always responds to sensible managment by the person in charge- you. But, in the short run, your body may decide to go it's own way, for it's own reasons, which perhaps we dont understand. Don't get mad at it. It's a good body or it wouldn't have gotten you this far. Be patient, you can afford to outwait it!
I told my daughter I was tired and cranky and I had a goal darnit, and I wanted it to happen, and I was doing alot to make it happen...She smiled and told me, "well those are just feelings mom"...
I can afford to outwait it. I like that line. What other options do we have, starve ourselves??? I don't think that will work, plus it makes things dangerous, I act badly with food when I am starved...I never allow myself to be starved...
What other choice do I have, I am exercising all I can. I am drinking all the water I can. I guess it's all about controlling the emotions and outwaiting what my body is doing...
I think I'll make myself listen to the good doctor, so hard his whole plan has taken me to a great place, I could not get to on my own! I am gonna outwait this one!
****After re-reading this, I realized I forgot the doctor's name Robert C Atkins, M.D. Chapter 15 DANDR****
YES! Because the alternatives are what, exactly??? We can only control those things that we can control...everything else will follow in it's own sweet time. That one took me a LONG time and a lot of regained weight to "learn." I remember as a child saying "I can't wait for <insert whatever anticipated thing here>" - whatever it was - my Grams would always say, well, of course you can and you've got plenty you can do in the meantime! And so it is with the weight we want off our bodies...we can't tell it when to come off but we can sure do all the right things in the meantime!
life ...
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