Letting Go
Myguire
Posts: 20
Just my own personal food for thought......
It’s hard to give up old habits. Although my former solutions to dealing with stress, anger, and emotional and physical pain had never worked and only made the problems worse, they were familiar. I had high hopes the results would be different each time. I wasn’t too surprised when it didn’t happen because this was familiar ground.
Then I half-heartedly decided to begin this journey and began working on all aspects of myself. It was scary! At first I felt very anxious, surely this new found self would be snatched from me just as I was beginning to feel comfortable with it. While I enjoyed my new healthy attitude and not having to focus soley on my eating habits, I often felt like I was in foreign territory without a map. But the longer I am on this journey, the happier my life is becoming. One day at a time...
It’s hard to give up old habits. Although my former solutions to dealing with stress, anger, and emotional and physical pain had never worked and only made the problems worse, they were familiar. I had high hopes the results would be different each time. I wasn’t too surprised when it didn’t happen because this was familiar ground.
Then I half-heartedly decided to begin this journey and began working on all aspects of myself. It was scary! At first I felt very anxious, surely this new found self would be snatched from me just as I was beginning to feel comfortable with it. While I enjoyed my new healthy attitude and not having to focus soley on my eating habits, I often felt like I was in foreign territory without a map. But the longer I am on this journey, the happier my life is becoming. One day at a time...
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Good morning!0
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Great Attitude! Stay positive and you will go far.0
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Same motto for me ..."one day at a time"......0
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very healthy food for thought I struggle with old habits too... one day at a time.0
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Love your post!!!! I wear a bracelet every day that says "One day at a time"...I look at it several times to remind myself!0
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You are so right! In times of stress, it is so easy to fall back into old habits. I feel that posting my issue/concern here really helps me refocus, think conscientiously about what I am doing and change that internal dialogue that is constant in my head.
Its not just Letting Go of the weight, it Letting Go of the self doubt, of the embarrassment, of the fear. And grabbing hold of a new healthier me. Thanks for the reminder this morning!0 -
That is a great outlook. I am sure if you are anything like me you are to hard on yourself so continue to take it one day at a time and the days that you fall short figure out what you did that wasn't in your favor and change it the next day. On the tough days focus on how far you have come; even if you are at the begining of your journey the decisions that you have made to change your life for the better is one of the biggest obsticles to climb, so move forward and reach out to your friends who understand too well what you are going throug. You are not alone!0
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Very true! Great words of encouragement.0
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