From: mtn mama (67.113.61.73)
Subject: I'm pulling out of hard times eating right and exercising
Date: April 15, 2002 at 1:59 pm PST
In Reply to: The coffee addiction is bad, bad, bad......... posted by Yam on April 14, 2002 at 4:19 pm:
Boy, have I been fighting an uphill battle! I had done so well McDougalling for two solid years with nary a weak moment. Then I got a little lax and then more and more. I never totally got away from McDougalling, its ingrained in me well enough that I'm never totally off it but the past few months have been SO HARD!! So hard because I'd decided I was getting my act back together, solid and strong, dedicated and determined like I was in the good old days but I've struggled to quite get there. I'd try, waiting for the pay-offs and rewards but they just didn't seem to come and then I'd be eating stuff I shouldn't again!! Why am I not feeling peppier, lighter, cleaner, feeling my clothes getting looser, feeling motivated by my success?
I knew what is best for myself, I know what really makes me feel well, look well and truly be well. What was my roadblock keeping me from what I truly want to do?
Well, I'm feeling much better now and I believe its due to some natural supplements I'm taking. We'd been taking them before and DH and I were feeling well and then we fell off taking them. Then his health issues hit and while we probably needed them all the more we were totally not thinking of taking them.
In desperation to feel more my old self, I recently forced myself to take them again and WOW! what a difference. Like night and day.I poked DH in the ribs and he's taking them again too and feeling energized as well. Some of what we're taking supposedly actually lowers blood pressure so we should have had DH on it already! Duh! Sitting on the counter it can't help much!!
Here is what was happening to me:
I'd fallen into some serious nightly eating to the point of PAIN EVERY NIGHT! Not like me! :(
Not wanting to exercise and when I did force it day after day expecting the joy I usually get from it to eventually return it just plain didn't happen so then I'd stop again.
Eating off plan just seemed allowed at all times. "Just this little thing won't hurt.......I need a pick-me-up....I'm feeding my soul...
"Just this little bits" all day long add up to big trouble!! I was excusing this behavior and couldn't find the gumption to stop it.
And now I'm:
Energized
Clear-minded
No cravings
Positive attitude
Finding it easy to eat right again like the old days.
Finding myself looking for little ways to increase my exercise in my daily life besides normal exercise. There's the old me again! :D
I'm feeling very much back even in ways I don't wish to dicuss here, thank you very much. *blushing*
