motd Friday April 13, 2012

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FAT TALK

Friday, 13 April 2012

"Oh! Why in the world did have that bowl

of ice cream and those cookies?! My mother was

right. No man is ever going to want a fat woman

like me and yet I keep giving in. I keep letting

the food get the best of me! I'm gonna end up fat

for the rest of my life!"

I like to call these kinds

of personal chats we have with ourselves...fat

talk! Those

talks are so self-defeating!

Well! Now

tell me, did you ever have a conversation like that

with yourself? Okay, I guess we all have. (I know I

did, long time ago.) I like to call these kinds of

personal chats we have with ourselves...fat talk! And may I tell

you something? Those talks are so self-defeating!

And I'm sure I don't have to tell you, men and women

are equally guilty of these conversations with

themselves. They just approach them differently. Men

often use humor as a way of coping with their weight.

They try to head off the nasty comments someone might

make about them by poking fun at themselves first.

Before someone else has a chance to say something ugly

about their weight, they'll make a "funny" remark

about their weight, themselves.

(It's sort of a reverse-psychology thing going on

there.)

Women, more often, don't take that route. That's

because they're usually more emotionally wrapped up in

their size and take their weight much more

personally. What they weigh is nothing to joke

about...ever!

But, truth is, whether you're a lady or a guy, the

"verbal bullets" you shoot at yourself about your

weight only end up causing your own self-worth to go

down. Those bullets are FAT TALK and you need

to cut them out of your life!

Fat talk goes two ways.

You can do it to yourself and some people may decide

to do it to

you.

Fat talk goes two ways. You can do it to yourself and

some people may decide to do it to you. The worse part

is that fat talk hurts your self-image and can lead to

even more self-destructive behavior. Which, by the

way, includes turning to food...even more!

(Oh, my...talk about one bad thing leading to

another.)

As you're working to lose weight, or if you're just

getting started, please stop it with the fat talk!

Stop putting yourself down about what you weigh and,

while you're at it, don't let others do it to you

either! Hey, just tell them..."I'm working hard

to lose weight and to make my body healthier. In

the meantime, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't

make those snide little remarks about how I look!"

You'll be surprised how far a short but forceful

remark like that can go with the senseless person who

makes nasty comments about your weight!

Don't spend the day making

ugly remarks about your weight and yourself.

In the meantime, take your own advice. Don't spend

the day making ugly remarks about your weight and

yourself. Instead of fat talk, how's about a little SMART

TALK!

"I'm so glad I decided to start working to lose

this weight. I may have just gotten started but I'm

already feeling better. And I'm gonna feel even

better with

every pound I lose. And I'm not gonna stop...until

I reach my goal!

Now that's what I call...smart talk!

Love,