Quote From: ritehere I was cleaning out my bookshelves this past weekend and found this. It used to hang on my refrigerator and I would read it before I opened the door. Hope somebody finds it as helpful as I did.
I overate for happiness - and became unhappy.
I overate for joy - and became miserable.
I overate to be outgoing - and became self-centered.
I overate to be sociable - and became argumentative and lonely.
I overate for friendship - and made enemies.
I overate to soften sorrow - and awakened without rest.
I overate for strength - and felt weak.
I overate for relaxation - and became more tense.
I overate for assurance - and became doubtful.
I overate for warmth - and lost my cool.
I overate to feel Heavenly - and found Hell.
I overate to forget - and became haunted by my excess fat.
I overate for freedom - and became a slave to food.
I overate for power - and became powerless.
I overate to erase problems - and saw them multiply.
I overate to cope with life - and invited an earlier death.
I overate because I had the RIGHT - and everything turned out wrong.
So I made it a rule, I don't eat unless I'm truly hungry!
Hi Ritehere,
I was wondering about the path you took to lose weight. For me, I started with a tool I knew would help me - a food log. In fact, I knew it because every time I had lost wt before, it was a major reason it happened. It had to undergo quite a bit of change because I pulled it into my program early on without ever reading the Weight Loss Solutions. But when I added a "journal" part to it, I saw that the life events in my life were out of control and losing weight wasn't going to happen for quite a long time.
I turned to Self Matters to help me with my thinking and been doing Self Matters for quite a long time now. I've finally just bought closure to my very last "thing" that makes me eat out of control -- my mom. I had to tackled all my other friends & family before her - but it's over and done with.
Did it happen to you that way too? I know that 1 woman lost weight and never used Weight Loss Solutions - she did it using the tools & techniques in Self Matters.
What was your path to weight loss?
