It means working EVERY DAY to change the old habits and make new ones. Sometimes it is hard, but if you make a conscious effort to create one success - and then build on it - you can get something started. Focus on what you REALLY WANT for yourself now and down the road. If you eat whatever your heart desires today - will that bring you closer to your long term goal - your heart's desire - or will it bring further away? Is the moments pleasure/comfort of eating worth more to you than reaching your goal is?
Do you have a defined goal? Do you know where you want to be?
Carrie wrote:I wish I had a step by step instruction manual but the best I can say is that I tried to think my way through it and make sense of the countless days I started MF and was off by the evening. It wasn't about the food. It was about the faulty thinking I was doing. I had fallen back into thinking that food was comforting me, serving some purpose in my life. And I was unconsciously believing that fat and food protected me from the jungle out there. It was also laziness - it's flat out easier to eat and eat than it is to try and change, and I had gotten to a place of not looking *that* bad. So my edge of desperation was gone.
Yeah, the losing weight was(is) definitely coming in second to numbing myself. *sigh* I think I have a few conversations in my future....
When I was off the program I had to get myself to a place of caring more about losing more weight than I did about eating. Caring more about doing something positive and self-esteem affirming instead of my old destructive ways.
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