Just For Today
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Just for Today: I will think of my journey as fun and exciting.0
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Just for Today: Moderation!!!!! I really over did yesterday and am paying the price today!0
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I like the "one day at a time" philosophy. However, I think being overly strict about eating (a la only being a cookie away from 300 lbs.) is not something that is sustainable.
Learning to normalize our eating is key to not only losing weight, but keeping it off. Learning how to have a cookie - just one - if you want one, instead of fearing it will lead to you being 300 lbs., to me seems like the way to go.....at least for me.
Good Gosh Yes. This. Please. +1Million
Figure out how to have a normal, healthy relationship with food. Unlike smoking or drinking alcohol, you can't quit food cold turkey. You have to eat to live.
Deprivation is a road to disaster for a lot of people.
The only way this really works is when you can have a relationship with food that YOU can be happy with for the rest of your life.
I've had a lot of food problems in the past. Every time I tried a fad "diet", I felt the same way you did: the thought of having to stick to that way of eating for the rest of my life really made me depressed, and it wasn't long for me to fall off that wagon.
What finally has worked is learning how to eat withing a caloric budget, exercising more to create the necessary deficit, and eating whatever I want (within the calorie budget, of course). This means: no food or drink is off the table for me, and that is something I can definitely live with for the rest of my life.
I look at what I'm doing right now: eating foods I enjoy, lifting weights 3x a week, and walking 10K steps per day, and that is something I can do, enjoy, and know I can sustain for the rest of my life. And it is working.
You may need to travel down the same, or a similar path to be successful.0 -
Just for today I will work my absolute hardest at my strength circuits session
and I will stop nibbling the chocolate buttons every time In enter the kitchen.
I'll deal with tomorrow's roller derby tomorrow...0 -
Just for today, I will be kind to someone who doesn't deserve my kindness. :flowerforyou:0
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I like the "one day at a time" philosophy. However, I think being overly strict about eating (a la only being a cookie away from 300 lbs.) is not something that is sustainable.
Learning to normalize our eating is key to not only losing weight, but keeping it off. Learning how to have a cookie - just one - if you want one, instead of fearing it will lead to you being 300 lbs., to me seems like the way to go.....at least for me.
Good Gosh Yes. This. Please. +1Million
Figure out how to have a normal, healthy relationship with food. Unlike smoking or drinking alcohol, you can't quit food cold turkey. You have to eat to live.
Deprivation is a road to disaster for a lot of people.
The only way this really works is when you can have a relationship with food that YOU can be happy with for the rest of your life.
I've had a lot of food problems in the past. Every time I tried a fad "diet", I felt the same way you did: the thought of having to stick to that way of eating for the rest of my life really made me depressed, and it wasn't long for me to fall off that wagon.
What finally has worked is learning how to eat withing a caloric budget, exercising more to create the necessary deficit, and eating whatever I want (within the calorie budget, of course). This means: no food or drink is off the table for me, and that is something I can definitely live with for the rest of my life.
I look at what I'm doing right now: eating foods I enjoy, lifting weights 3x a week, and walking 10K steps per day, and that is something I can do, enjoy, and know I can sustain for the rest of my life. And it is working.
You may need to travel down the same, or a similar path to be successful.
Exactly this. The only thing that has really worked for me is knowing I can have whatever I want, just in moderation. Well, that and a really lot of exercise. :-)0 -
I like the "one day at a time" philosophy. However, I think being overly strict about eating (a la only being a cookie away from 300 lbs.) is not something that is sustainable.
Learning to normalize our eating is key to not only losing weight, but keeping it off. Learning how to have a cookie - just one - if you want one, instead of fearing it will lead to you being 300 lbs., to me seems like the way to go.....at least for me.
Good Gosh Yes. This. Please. +1Million
Figure out how to have a normal, healthy relationship with food. Unlike smoking or drinking alcohol, you can't quit food cold turkey. You have to eat to live.
Deprivation is a road to disaster for a lot of people.
The only way this really works is when you can have a relationship with food that YOU can be happy with for the rest of your life.
I've had a lot of food problems in the past. Every time I tried a fad "diet", I felt the same way you did: the thought of having to stick to that way of eating for the rest of my life really made me depressed, and it wasn't long for me to fall off that wagon.
What finally has worked is learning how to eat withing a caloric budget, exercising more to create the necessary deficit, and eating whatever I want (within the calorie budget, of course). This means: no food or drink is off the table for me, and that is something I can definitely live with for the rest of my life.
I look at what I'm doing right now: eating foods I enjoy, lifting weights 3x a week, and walking 10K steps per day, and that is something I can do, enjoy, and know I can sustain for the rest of my life. And it is working.
You may need to travel down the same, or a similar path to be successful.
Exactly this. The only thing that has really worked for me is knowing I can have whatever I want, just in moderation. Well, that and a really lot of exercise. :-)
I appreciate your perspective and I see the sense in what you say. I thought once that I had reached the point that I would have that kind of relationship with food. I know now that I don't. My relationship with food is not strictly professional; I love it, I use it, I abuse it. I certainly hope to reach the healthy mindset that you are enjoying in your lives, but I'm honest enough with myself to know that I am not there yet. As the saying goes, "One is too many and a thousand is never enough". For me, getting through Today, without the cookie, may help me reach the point that you all seem to have reached.0 -
I'm not there either, CricketKate. It is a daily struggle for me, too.
Just for Today: I will be proud that I resisted all the junk and trigger food set out and served at the party this afternoon.0 -
Just for today, I will tell Cricket Kate that I know exactly what she's talking about when she says "One is too many and a thousand is never enough". Samuel Johnson once said, when someone offered him wine: “Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”0
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Thank you! This was awesome!
Just for today I will step outside my comfort zone and accept that life is short and fleeting and there is no need to get so anxious about so little...
Easier said than done but I am a work in progress. :flowerforyou:0 -
Just for Today: I will walk my steps.0
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Just for today I will relax about it.0
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Just for today I will get my protein in and get some fresh air 0
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just for today:
I'm going to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight. and i'll get up and do it again tomorrow. And the next day.0 -
Just for Today: I will ignore what co-workers are eating.0
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30 years ago I was diagnosed with epilepsy following the birth of my first child. I was devastated to think I had to take medication the rest of my life.
The doctor took my hand and said...don't take it the rest of your life...just, every day, take it today.
This is a wonderful way to look at many things, including the changes we must make to be healthy.0 -
just for today-i will concentrate on staying just a couple of steps ahead rather than trying to strategize for the 6-9 months...0
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Just for Today: I will not undermine myself.0
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Just for today, I will not let the scale get me flustered!0
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Just for Today: I will eat my veggies.0
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Just for Today: I will stick with it.0
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Reminds me of a poem my therapist gave me.
Poem - Just for today
Just for Today I want to be at Peace. I want to feel that long needed, soothing inner peace inside my soul, inside my bones.
Just for Today I want to be at Peace. Even if it means giving up a few things:
Even if it means giving up those little private conversations I have with myself about other people's driving behavior. Even if it means letting go of a ripe opportunity to judge their selfish driving habits, and even if it means passing up the opportunity to remind myself of how just my values are compared to theirs.
Just For Today I want to be at Peace. I guess, even if it means letting go of other opportunities throughout this day to privately judge others for their selfishness, their stupidity, their thoughtlessness. I guess, even if it means passing up a few opportunities to privately speculate and judge the state of the world, and how much better off it would be if people would just do what I know is best for everyone.
I think that I really want to be at Peace today. Even if it means that I must let go of being right, even when I am right. Even if it means that I have to let go of following out my private conversations in my head about how right I am, how logical, how rational. Even if it means that I must let go of my inner debates on my self-esteem, my correctness, my self-consciousness, what others think of me, how I might be appearing to others. Even if it means that I won't have the luxury of dwelling in my self-consciousness, self-pity, or anger.
I really like the way Peace feels. And just for today, I want to feel some peace.
Tomorrow is another day, with plenty of opportunity to renew my judgment of other's selfishness and thoughtlessness, my criticisms of the world's ways, my rightness about the inequality in the world, my obsessive private conversations about my ego and what others think of me.
Just because I miss a few opportunities for that today, there will still be plenty of opportunity for that tomorrow. I can afford to be at Peace today, because I can always pick up those other habits tomorrow. There will always be other chances to worry, to judge, be angry, self righteous, intolerant.
I don't need to be afraid of giving up my judgment, criticisms, and anxieties Just For One Little Day now do I?
Just For Today, I want to be at Peace. Even if it means that I'll need to give up some opportunities to show people how much I know about everything, and even if I have to give up a day spent watching for chances to impress others, and make sure they know how much I know.
I may have to let go of an opportunity to correct someone's misinformation, to give them the right facts, or set the record straight.
I heard someone once say, "For peace of mind resign as general manager of the Universe."
I may have to let go of some worry, or self concern about wearing the right clothes, having the right smile, making sure that I don't do anything politically incorrect, knowing everything, and having studied everything with more integrity than anyone else possibly could have, else they would have arrived at the same conclusions that I did. I'll have to give up opportunities to be important, or make sure others know how important I am.
I'll have to tell my ego to take a hike when it demands that I bow down and spend every waking hour of my day re-framing everything into how perfect I am, how wonderful I am, how anything I am.
I'll have to let go of anything that doesn't feel peaceful.
Just for today.0 -
Just for today: I am going to accept that I did not plan my meals out for this week and because of that made a lunchtime choice that I am not pleased with. Just for today I'll enjoy the fat and salt and sugar of that lunch and tonight I will take the dog on an extra-long walk. I will not obsess over this until I convince myself that I can't do this and allow myself to fall off the wagon AGAIN. I will do better tomorrow.0
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Just for Today: I will workout hard at the gym this morning and watch myself with treats at the Harvest Festival.0
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Just for today...and everyday...I will have an attitude of gratitude realizing that overeating does not solve problems!0
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So did I. Was overly stressed and took comfort in sugar. Recovering bulemic over 25 years.0
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Reiki Prayer
Just for today, I will not worry.
Just for today, I will not anger.
Just for today, I will earn my living honestly.
Just for today, I will honor my parents, teachers and elders.
Just for today, I will show gratitude for everything.0 -
Just for Today: I will gt my steps in, somehow.0
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Just for today, I will try and be positive and compassionate to everybody I meet and to remember that we all struggle with something and we all need a second chance at something.0
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Just for Today: I will believe in myself!0
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