~ POSITIVE THINKING ~
:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:
"We could accomplish many more things
if we did not think of them as impossible"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
from his "Lettres à M. de Malesherbes"
:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:
I have spent a lifetime dieting. My life
can be easily separated into two
sections: the dieting periods and the
non-dieting, or bingeing, periods. When
I first start losing weight, I am
positive about it, to the point where,
if I go clothes shopping, I even buy
things in smaller sizes because soon I
won't be as big as I am. This works fine
while I'm losing weight, but when I
reach a plateau and remain at the same
weight level for a while, or even worse,
gain a bit, I start to think that I'll
never lose the weight I need to lose,
that my sticking to a "diet" for the
rest of my life is nigh to impossible.
Well, with stinking thinking like this,
I'm defeated before I've even
started. Through this program, I've
learned that anything is possible. First
of all, it's true that sticking to a
diet for the rest of my life would be an
impossible feat, but in program we don't
"go on diets." We follow a sensible
eating plan, and this plan should be
flexible enough that it IS something we
can follow indefinitely. Secondly, I
have to correct my time spans. Instead
of thinking of it as "the rest of my
life," I have the option to think of it
as "One Day at a Time," and we can do
anything for just one day, can't we?
ONE DAY AT A TIME . . .
I remember that's all it takes...one day
at a time.