the pig's picnic to day a success!

[Guest guest]

so now let's take a look at all the wonderful food they had for the taking,

but the pig ignored and had the cottage cheese, sliced cucumbers and a boiled

egg instead. now what could I have had if I would have pitched good sense to the

wind? fried chicken, baked beans, cole slaw, potatoes salad, pasta salad, ribs,

and every sweet thing known to man! No! No! No! I watched all around me that I

went with enjoy all this that once up on a over eating time I to use to enjoy

until I was so full I was sick. to day I ate what I took to eat and ignored all

that bad food that most of my life has got me to over 300 pounds, heart

problems, diabetes and who knows what else is just laying in wait? I never

craved any of that stuff to day. never did I have a weak moment and then I took

a walk down hill for a long way and had to return up hill which about done this

fat pig in! can't figure out why walking down hill goes so much faster then the

return trip. this picnic was 140 miles from where we live and right across the

street from the school for the blind in Muskogee where I went to school from

1965 to 1976. lots of folks there I knew in school and who knows I'm doing a

better job at eating better and losing unwanted pounds. only around 75 people to

day and I either know them all or of them through others. this helps a lot when

they all know what health issues you got and more then likely why you have them,

so none of them cried for me to join them in a piece of this or a slice of that.

they all act like they are proud of the pig. I'm thinking they wish for me to do

well and hang around for a few more years. of course they all said they couldn't

be around all that grate food and not partake, but some day if they didn't

change there bad eating habits, they may be asking me for advice on how to over

come the pain of giving it up or being near it and ignore it. one year ago I

would have tore that chicken up and tied on the feed bag for a fact, but no to

day. been doing way good for more then 2 months now and haven't slipped and fell

yet! not to say I won't, because the pig is still a pig and still I do dream of

the feed bag. but I'm here to tell you right now and I know first hand about

this, high sugars caused from eating to many carbs at one meal is a very bad

feeling that I can certainly live with out! I don't feel like I missed nothing

to day that I can't live with out. it was kind of to easy to do what I did. need

to slap my self around to see if I'm still with the living and kicking to see

that it is still all real. they all did say the fudge was grate and please make

them more. ten pounds of potatoes salad all ate and gone. just wanted you all to

know what a fine success it was for me to day in a real good test for me. when

you have been a over eater for as many years as I was, to day was a huge jump

and a huge goal met head on and achieved! life is grate and getting better by

the day. think I will go to bed now and have a night mare about all that fried

chicken and ribs that I missed out on. it did smell good though. one thing bad

about being totally blind is, your nose still can work fine even if the eyes

don't!

[Guest guest]

Would you had eaten the baked chicken if it were baked?

Like two pieces or one breast?

Becky

the pig's picnic to day a success!

> so now let's take a look at all the wonderful food they had for the

> taking, but the pig ignored and had the cottage cheese, sliced cucumbers

> and a boiled egg instead. now what could I have had if I would have

> pitched good sense to the wind? fried chicken, baked beans, cole slaw,

> potatoes salad, pasta salad, ribs, and every sweet thing known to man! No!

> No! No! I watched all around me that I went with enjoy all this that once

> up on a over eating time I to use to enjoy until I was so full I was sick.

> to day I ate what I took to eat and ignored all that bad food that most of

> my life has got me to over 300 pounds, heart problems, diabetes and who

> knows what else is just laying in wait? I never craved any of that stuff

> to day. never did I have a weak moment and then I took a walk down hill

> for a long way and had to return up hill which about done this fat pig in!

> can't figure out why walking down hill goes so much faster then the return

> trip. this picnic was 140 miles from where we live and right across the

> street from the school for the blind in Muskogee where I went to school

> from 1965 to 1976. lots of folks there I knew in school and who knows I'm

> doing a better job at eating better and losing unwanted pounds. only

> around 75 people to day and I either know them all or of them through

> others. this helps a lot when they all know what health issues you got and

> more then likely why you have them, so none of them cried for me to join

> them in a piece of this or a slice of that. they all act like they are

> proud of the pig. I'm thinking they wish for me to do well and hang around

> for a few more years. of course they all said they couldn't be around all

> that grate food and not partake, but some day if they didn't change there

> bad eating habits, they may be asking me for advice on how to over come

> the pain of giving it up or being near it and ignore it. one year ago I

> would have tore that chicken up and tied on the feed bag for a fact, but

> no to day. been doing way good for more then 2 months now and haven't

> slipped and fell yet! not to say I won't, because the pig is still a pig

> and still I do dream of the feed bag. but I'm here to tell you right now

> and I know first hand about this, high sugars caused from eating to many

> carbs at one meal is a very bad feeling that I can certainly live with

> out! I don't feel like I missed nothing to day that I can't live with out.

> it was kind of to easy to do what I did. need to slap my self around to

> see if I'm still with the living and kicking to see that it is still all

> real. they all did say the fudge was grate and please make them more. ten

> pounds of potatoes salad all ate and gone. just wanted you all to know

> what a fine success it was for me to day in a real good test for me. when

> you have been a over eater for as many years as I was, to day was a huge

> jump and a huge goal met head on and achieved! life is grate and getting

> better by the day. think I will go to bed now and have a night mare about

> all that fried chicken and ribs that I missed out on. it did smell good

> though. one thing bad about being totally blind is, your nose still can

> work fine even if the eyes don't!

>

>

[Guest guest]

That is a wonderful achievement. If it happened to me I probably would not

have gone there at all. I would not have your will power.

Especially around chicken!

the pig's picnic to day a success!

> so now let's take a look at all the wonderful food they had for the

> taking, but the pig ignored and had the cottage cheese, sliced cucumbers

> and a boiled egg instead. now what could I have had if I would have

> pitched good sense to the wind? fried chicken, baked beans, cole slaw,

> potatoes salad, pasta salad, ribs, and every sweet thing known to man! No!

> No! No! I watched all around me that I went with enjoy all this that once

> up on a over eating time I to use to enjoy until I was so full I was sick.

> to day I ate what I took to eat and ignored all that bad food that most of

> my life has got me to over 300 pounds, heart problems, diabetes and who

> knows what else is just laying in wait? I never craved any of that stuff

> to day. never did I have a weak moment and then I took a walk down hill

> for a long way and had to return up hill which about done this fat pig in!

> can't figure out why walking down hill goes so much faster then the return

> trip. this picnic was 140 miles from where we live and right across the

> street from the school for the blind in Muskogee where I went to school

> from 1965 to 1976. lots of folks there I knew in school and who knows I'm

> doing a better job at eating better and losing unwanted pounds. only

> around 75 people to day and I either know them all or of them through

> others. this helps a lot when they all know what health issues you got and

> more then likely why you have them, so none of them cried for me to join

> them in a piece of this or a slice of that. they all act like they are

> proud of the pig. I'm thinking they wish for me to do well and hang around

> for a few more years. of course they all said they couldn't be around all

> that grate food and not partake, but some day if they didn't change there

> bad eating habits, they may be asking me for advice on how to over come

> the pain of giving it up or being near it and ignore it. one year ago I

> would have tore that chicken up and tied on the feed bag for a fact, but

> no to day. been doing way good for more then 2 months now and haven't

> slipped and fell yet! not to say I won't, because the pig is still a pig

> and still I do dream of the feed bag. but I'm here to tell you right now

> and I know first hand about this, high sugars caused from eating to many

> carbs at one meal is a very bad feeling that I can certainly live with

> out! I don't feel like I missed nothing to day that I can't live with out.

> it was kind of to easy to do what I did. need to slap my self around to

> see if I'm still with the living and kicking to see that it is still all

> real. they all did say the fudge was grate and please make them more. ten

> pounds of potatoes salad all ate and gone. just wanted you all to know

> what a fine success it was for me to day in a real good test for me. when

> you have been a over eater for as many years as I was, to day was a huge

> jump and a huge goal met head on and achieved! life is grate and getting

> better by the day. think I will go to bed now and have a night mare about

> all that fried chicken and ribs that I missed out on. it did smell good

> though. one thing bad about being totally blind is, your nose still can

> work fine even if the eyes don't!

>

>

[Guest guest]

I have noticed with me it isn't so much will power as it is my health. to

many trips to the hospital with a heart that is complaining of the way I was

treating it is what has done the trick finally. I love food and lots of it, at

least it was this way for most of my life, but when you get real close and face

to face with passing on out of this world, well it has a way of getting your up

most attention and will power actually in my case has little to do with it. I

agree that small amounts of normal food is the key, but in my case one piece of

chicken would have lead to another, so best thing to do was take my own and just

remember the hospital visits and the way I felt. I could still go back the the

hospital with heart trouble, but at least this time high sugar isn't going to be

the cause of it and nor is over eating what ever I can get in my belly. My Momma

always said very few people actually had enough will power to not do those

things that they loved to do and enjoyed doing. she always told me I had to

first decide what it was that I done that was not good for me and believe it was

so. then she said I could have what it took to not do it any more. well I'm

starting to now see that Momma may have been correct in her thinking. I never

truly believed in my past of over eating that food could or would be bad for me.

it made me feel good when I ate it and I so looked forward to enjoying it as

well. I simply believed that I was on earth to live to eat and this for most of

my life was my attitude. lots of times I would continue doing the same things

like over eating, but hoping for different results. this is about as crazy

thinking as it can get. well all that eating stuff I liked just because it was

there and I felt it was my due in life proved out to be my undoing in the end. I

can look at people now including my self and see a person who is lots of pounds

over weight and know that they have some bad eating habits that is slowly

destroying them. I use to believe that fat was healthy! where in the world did I

get thinking a thought as this? my thinking was for many years, it is here, I

like it, I wont it and I will have it because I'm worth it and it is my body!

now as I look back on thinking this way most of my over eating life I see how

selfish this kind of thinking is. over eating is simply an addiction just like

alcohol and drugs and many more things that we humans think we can't live with

out. what makes food a bad kind of addiction is you got to eat to live, not live

to eat and most of us who are way over weight and have T 2 diabetes has for most

of our life gave in to living to eat. Some of us hide behind we are depressed or

lonely or sad or celebrating something important to us, but the bottom line is a

over eater will always find a reason or a excuse to justify why over eating is

right for them. most folks will find a reason to justify doing those things that

are bad for them if they think it is making them feel good or happy. I know lots

of folks who have been addicted to all kinds of things and they all will have a

answer for you why they do it or they simply blame others for why they are the

way they are. this is the easy way out and it is why most of us take this road.

I wanted to go to the picnic yesterday and be a part of life. I wanted to see

those buddies of mine that I don't see that much. I also wanted to continue

living and being a part of the living and not hide at home. life goes on and we

go with it. we do have to make smarter choices and this is what Dave told me in

a post a while back and I see how true it is. not will power and not being weak,

but making a smarter choice to do what is best for me and my slice of this life

that belongs to me. before when I tried to change my bad eating habits it would

never work because I hadn't decided yet that what I was doing was destroying my

health. once the heart issues continued getting worse and going to the hospital

trips got bigger in number, this is when I finally got clear with how I was

suppose to think and believe. my attitude then got where it needed to be many

years back. I believe there is very few over weight people who are over weight

do to no fault of there own. I think more then 99% of over weight people have a

bad attitude about the addiction they have with over eating. I know I did! there

is no good reason for me to over eat or destroy my health from eating to much of

what I don't have to eat. living to over eat was my attitude for more then 45

years and for 45 years I have been more then 50 pounds over my idea weight. all

that chicken and the stuff that was there at the picnic did smell good, but it

wasn't hard at all to say no to. actually it was very easy to not want any of

it. most of my health issues to day were caused from that same kind of food at

that picnic simply because I wasn't smart enough to only eat what my body needed

to live. instead I ate enough for 3 men and figured it was my right because it

was my body and my life. once any of us realize the truth of the facts and be

honest with our self that are over weight condition is mainly caused from not

making smarter choices when we eat, then our problems will continue until the

bad health kills us very dead. I will never again believe will power has

anything to do with it. if you love it and believe it is what makes you happy,

then there simply isn't enough will power any where that will keep you from

partaking of what ever it is. I know now it is all in your attitude and this is

how simple it is to know the truth. no will power at all was needed for me

yesterday. my attitude is now where it needs to be and making smarter choices

with the right attitude is much easier and life is much more enjoyable now. I

hope that none of you got to go through what I have with the bad heart trouble,

but if you continue to give in to over eating and blaming it all on others for

the reasons you do as you do, then you are headed for trouble just like I ran in

to. I blamed the way I was raised for years, because I had no will power and

over ate all the time. I'm the only one to blame for my attitude and how I

always found a reason to justify why I done what I done. now I know the truth

and I'm the one who excepts all the blame. now I don't know about others, but in

my case, will power only worked for me when I knew it was wrong and it was going

to hurt me if I didn't stay away from what ever it was. those things I loved to

do or eating more then I needed was a love in my life and no amount of so called

will power ever done any good. just like exercising every day for one hour or

more. it isn't will power that makes me do it each day. it is my attitude that

makes me do it every day now for 2 months. it isn't will power that makes me

take my blood sugar finger stick six times a day for 2 months now, it is my

attitude that makes me do it. I'm sick and tired of my over weight condition and

as long as I'm able to do something about it I will exercise and eat right

because I want it gone from me for ever and this isn't will power that drives

me, but it is a attitude where it needs to be instead!

the pig's picnic to day a success!

> so now let's take a look at all the wonderful food they had for the

> taking, but the pig ignored and had the cottage cheese, sliced cucumbers

> and a boiled egg instead. now what could I have had if I would have

> pitched good sense to the wind? fried chicken, baked beans, cole slaw,

> potatoes salad, pasta salad, ribs, and every sweet thing known to man! No!

> No! No! I watched all around me that I went with enjoy all this that once

> up on a over eating time I to use to enjoy until I was so full I was sick.

> to day I ate what I took to eat and ignored all that bad food that most of

> my life has got me to over 300 pounds, heart problems, diabetes and who

> knows what else is just laying in wait? I never craved any of that stuff

> to day. never did I have a weak moment and then I took a walk down hill

> for a long way and had to return up hill which about done this fat pig in!

> can't figure out why walking down hill goes so much faster then the return

> trip. this picnic was 140 miles from where we live and right across the

> street from the school for the blind in Muskogee where I went to school

> from 1965 to 1976. lots of folks there I knew in school and who knows I'm

> doing a better job at eating better and losing unwanted pounds. only

> around 75 people to day and I either know them all or of them through

> others. this helps a lot when they all know what health issues you got and

> more then likely why you have them, so none of them cried for me to join

> them in a piece of this or a slice of that. they all act like they are

> proud of the pig. I'm thinking they wish for me to do well and hang around

> for a few more years. of course they all said they couldn't be around all

> that grate food and not partake, but some day if they didn't change there

> bad eating habits, they may be asking me for advice on how to over come

> the pain of giving it up or being near it and ignore it. one year ago I

> would have tore that chicken up and tied on the feed bag for a fact, but

> no to day. been doing way good for more then 2 months now and haven't

> slipped and fell yet! not to say I won't, because the pig is still a pig

> and still I do dream of the feed bag. but I'm here to tell you right now

> and I know first hand about this, high sugars caused from eating to many

> carbs at one meal is a very bad feeling that I can certainly live with

> out! I don't feel like I missed nothing to day that I can't live with out.

> it was kind of to easy to do what I did. need to slap my self around to

> see if I'm still with the living and kicking to see that it is still all

> real. they all did say the fudge was grate and please make them more. ten

> pounds of potatoes salad all ate and gone. just wanted you all to know

> what a fine success it was for me to day in a real good test for me. when

> you have been a over eater for as many years as I was, to day was a huge

> jump and a huge goal met head on and achieved! life is grate and getting

> better by the day. think I will go to bed now and have a night mare about

> all that fried chicken and ribs that I missed out on. it did smell good

> though. one thing bad about being totally blind is, your nose still can

> work fine even if the eyes don't!

>

>

[Guest guest]

no. actually one of the ladies offered to bake me a chicken breast and bring

it, but I was ok with what I took to eat. I prefer dark meat and really don't

care for the white like a breast. I'm a leg and thie man my self. I'm really not

a big meat eater any more. I know how easy it is to over eat meat and get in the

thought process of thinking a meal isn't complete with out meat. I'm working on

changing this thinking in my life. fried chicken or baked is ok, but I can live

with out it most of the time. grilled now and then to me is the best though.

the pig's picnic to day a success!

> so now let's take a look at all the wonderful food they had for the

> taking, but the pig ignored and had the cottage cheese, sliced cucumbers

> and a boiled egg instead. now what could I have had if I would have

> pitched good sense to the wind? fried chicken, baked beans, cole slaw,

> potatoes salad, pasta salad, ribs, and every sweet thing known to man! No!

> No! No! I watched all around me that I went with enjoy all this that once

> up on a over eating time I to use to enjoy until I was so full I was sick.

> to day I ate what I took to eat and ignored all that bad food that most of

> my life has got me to over 300 pounds, heart problems, diabetes and who

> knows what else is just laying in wait? I never craved any of that stuff

> to day. never did I have a weak moment and then I took a walk down hill

> for a long way and had to return up hill which about done this fat pig in!

> can't figure out why walking down hill goes so much faster then the return

> trip. this picnic was 140 miles from where we live and right across the

> street from the school for the blind in Muskogee where I went to school

> from 1965 to 1976. lots of folks there I knew in school and who knows I'm

> doing a better job at eating better and losing unwanted pounds. only

> around 75 people to day and I either know them all or of them through

> others. this helps a lot when they all know what health issues you got and

> more then likely why you have them, so none of them cried for me to join

> them in a piece of this or a slice of that. they all act like they are

> proud of the pig. I'm thinking they wish for me to do well and hang around

> for a few more years. of course they all said they couldn't be around all

> that grate food and not partake, but some day if they didn't change there

> bad eating habits, they may be asking me for advice on how to over come

> the pain of giving it up or being near it and ignore it. one year ago I

> would have tore that chicken up and tied on the feed bag for a fact, but

> no to day. been doing way good for more then 2 months now and haven't

> slipped and fell yet! not to say I won't, because the pig is still a pig

> and still I do dream of the feed bag. but I'm here to tell you right now

> and I know first hand about this, high sugars caused from eating to many

> carbs at one meal is a very bad feeling that I can certainly live with

> out! I don't feel like I missed nothing to day that I can't live with out.

> it was kind of to easy to do what I did. need to slap my self around to

> see if I'm still with the living and kicking to see that it is still all

> real. they all did say the fudge was grate and please make them more. ten

> pounds of potatoes salad all ate and gone. just wanted you all to know

> what a fine success it was for me to day in a real good test for me. when

> you have been a over eater for as many years as I was, to day was a huge

> jump and a huge goal met head on and achieved! life is grate and getting

> better by the day. think I will go to bed now and have a night mare about

> all that fried chicken and ribs that I missed out on. it did smell good

> though. one thing bad about being totally blind is, your nose still can

> work fine even if the eyes don't!

>

>