FROM excuses&Codependent to BEAST MODE success stories

NewLIFEstyle4ME

How EASY it is (for some of us??) to play the "blame-game" (no matter how true or justified it may be) in being obese and/or overweight, outta shape, fat and flabby. Ya know the drill, because "he/she said or did this or that to me" I'm fat, because she/he did or said this or that to me, I'm obese, because of "them" I am outta shape and unhealthy and look and feel fat and flabby et al...if he/she wouldn't be so (fill in the blank) I'd lose the weight, if he/she would only (fill in the blank) I could be successful in this battle of the bulge. If my husband, wife, children, friends, neighbors, parents, boss (fill in the blank) would do or be thus and such...THEN I could be successful and permanently lose the weight. In other words, when and how did you get to the place where you STOPPED using other people behaviors for your faults, failures and lack of (fill in the blank).

I'd love to hear (and I think many will be encouraged/inspired) to hear/read how you finally quit the "blame game" and/or allowing yourself to be co-dependent. This is what I mean by "co-dependent" among the TONS of definitions: People who are codependent often take on the role as a martyr; they constantly put others' needs before their own and in doing so forget to take care of themselves. This creates a sense that they are "needed"; they cannot stand the thought of being alone and no one needing them. Codependent people are constantly in search of acceptance. When it comes to arguments, codependent people also tend to set themselves up as the "victim". When they do stand up for themselves, they feel guilty.Codependency does not refer to all caring behavior or feelings, but only those that are excessive to an unhealthy degree.


So, pls. share how you FINALLY threw down the gauntlet and boot kicked the shift blaming game and/or co-dependency to the place where the sun won't EVER shine and got/put yourself into BEAST MODE :drinker: ( in terms of eating, drinking and exercising and thinking--just plain NO LONGER using/allowing others to keep you from doing what you need and must do to become a slimmer and trimmer and all around mentally, physically, spiritually, a much healthier person and once you did so, how did you released the weight, met or are meeting your weight-loss goals and how are you looking and feeling like a whole NEW better you?!?

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