Guest guest Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hi, Debra. Welcome to the group, and congratulations on 4 days! It sounds like you're taking some very positive first steps toward " getting with the program " . Like you, I have fibromyalgia, and that makes it difficult, and sometimes impossible for me to exercise, but I figure that even if I can get in 5 minutes a day on my stationary bike, it better than no exercise at all. Pat _____ Hi! I got a classic ipod for Christmas and discovered 's podcast. What a gift! I've considered myself heavy all my life, tho I see pictures of myself as a teen and in my 20's and wonder what I was thinking. Now at 53 years old and 210 pounds, I would love to go back to my size 12's that I thought were for fat people back then. I have been on every diet imaginable - my last successful battle with weight was with fen-phen which caused serious heart problems in some people and has been pulled from the market. With peri-menopause (and self-medicating with chocolate) and fibromyalgia medication that has a side effect of weight gain I have been giving myself a free pass on the weight issue. Knowing that my Dad died of a stroke and my Mom died from a heart attack and was a diabetic did not seem to be enough to get me to stick with a diet for more than a few days. I did follow the Weight Watchers regimen some years ago, but did not go to meetings. My Mom would come home with stories of being chided by a leader and I am not interested in having someone else make me feel bad - I did enough chiding myself. This seems a much less threatening forum. For me, the breakthrough was the podcast where I was to be my new, slender self and ask myself 'Do I like it?' and the answer was 'I have to work to keep this body every single day. I'm thinner but I'm still old. Now that my face is thinner I look even older. You gotta die of something - might as well be a heart attack.' All these things I had in my subconscious all that time! I thanked that part of myself that had given me permission to not care what I put into my mouth for the last 6 years or so. So now armed with my list of 'symptoms' of why I want to change, I am listening to the podcasts over and over, savoring them. I am moving through them faster than one a week but am taking the time to fully grasp each before I move to the next one. I got some soy protein bars/shakes, because I need to make a tangible break with the way I used to eat. Though I know what I should eat but seem to keep falling back into the 'I never met a chocolate chip cookie I didn't like' way of thinking. I need something drastic. This way I have no decisions to make about what to eat - 2 or 3 of these protein bars, 5 servings of fruit/veggies, and one lo cal meal per day. It's only been 4 days - but that's one day longer than it has been before. Continous Improvement! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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