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Originally Posted by Tina
Hope you are feeling better now........
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Thanks Tina. I AM feeling a little bit better now. I swear, it's just been one thing right after another for the past 3 or 4 weeks.
Diet-Wise, I tend to do the "comfort food" thing when I am not feeling well. It never comforts though, does it? Actually it just ends up making me feel worse!
But its a new day, and a fresh start.
One thing I have learned is that one needs to escape the diet mentality. It's not about a diet. It's about a healthy lifestyle of good healthy food and exercise. And learning moderation in "bad" food.
It's kind of a catch-22. I did so well with my "diet" when I started because I was totally and completely gung-ho. It was my "project", and I devoted all my free time to it. Whether I was exercising, planning and tracking my food consumption, reading numerous books and articles on being healthy, or talking to others who were on the same journey.
And so I lost 80 pounds, relatively quickly. And that was great. But it wasn't life. It was a diet. Sure, I learned alot about living a healthy life. But honestly, losing the 80 pounds, it wasn't the work.
The work began the day that the diet ended. The day when the obsession faded. When I was left with nothing but some good ideas, and 60 more pounds to lose.
In many ways I might not be doing that great diet-wise. When I was sick I gained 10 pounds overnight (literally) and those haven't disappeared yet. But in many ways I feel much more optimistic about this place. I have a ways to go, and it might take me years, but I just keep going.
I guess it's similar to my spiritual walk. I might still look a mess on the outside. I might still have a long ways to go. But I know where I came from, and I understand it's not about a destination, its about perservering on the journey.
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