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Date Posted: 21:23:28 05/27/02 Mon
Author: Kel
Subject: Back to the drawing board

Well okay. I was feeling like I wanted something sweet, so I decided I would try some of those cool recipes everyone's been sharing. First I tried the SF jello chocolate pudding, made with cream & water. That was very tasty; it was so tasty, I ate the whole bowl. :(

Then I tried the mock danish thingie. I really liked that one a lot. I ate three of them. :(

Okay back to the drawing board. Apparently I can't just have "some" or "one" of anything yummie. I have to have it ALL or nothing. And I've also decided one thing... I've been making this way too hard. Mentally, I've been telling myself, "it's tough, but I can do it". Well, yannow it doesn't have to be all that tough. You can make it easy in your own head; I'm going to give that a try also.

As far as the exercise goes, I'm starting small. I know myself and I will quit something once I've mastered it and it becomes boring or routine. Nearly all exercise fits in this category for me, so I'm starting with a small amount of activity I can keep to every day.

Finally, I have to say after working part of the holiday weekend in a beach city, there are A LOT of fat women and men out there having a grand ole time, like they didn't even know they were fat. And although it looked like comedy to see some of them in bathing suits (and i dont mean large ones okay), it got me to thinking. Part of my misery with being so overweight is my image of it. My self-image is a huge part of what does me in. See, when I go out on that beach, I don't see the fat people usually. I always see the slim, tanned, pretty people who I "will never look like." This kills my self-image right away and I retreat into my personal hell of "I can't even think about doing fun things until I look better doing them." Soooo I put off a lot of fun things while other people (a lot bigger than myself), are out there doing them and having fun. What's wrong with this picture? Everything. I'm changing my tune immediately. I'm not putting stuff off anymore; I'm getting out there and having fun too. Yeah, I'll look better doing it 20 lbs lighter, but I'm going to have fun doing it now also. Here's to a brighter future and a brand new month.

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Re: Back to the drawing board -- tara911, 00:43:40 05/28/02 Tue
- Re: Back to the drawing board -- Kate, 13:55:45 05/29/02 Wed
I think I kind of have the opposite problem. I don't picture myself as this "fat" person. I'll be out dancing with my girlfriends and I think I look great. Then I'll see my reflection or something and I get so caught up in how bad I look that I stop having fun. I guess that I need to avoid mirrors more. <grin> (NT) -- Katie, 08:28:39 05/28/02 Tue
Beating temptation.... -- MaryM, 13:15:28 05/29/02 Wed
My neighbor thinks I'm pregnant! -- Julie Anne, 02:36:16 05/30/02 Thu