Monday, November 25, 2013

UH-OH. 'TIS THE SEASON TO GAIN WEIGHT!

Here we are again. Thanksgiving week. After we stuff ourselves with turkey and all the trimmings it's on to The Season to be Jolly with all the goodies that go along with that. This is the year I'm finally going to knuckle down and do something about my overinflated body before I need to have all my joints replaced.

I just bought Tory Johnson's book, THE SHIFT and started reading it. It isn't "just another diet book". It's about changing your mindset so you can actually get on with the process of getting healthy. Today I'm focusing on one of the first quotes that jumped out at me, "I'M NOT FAT BY CHANCE. THIS IS A CHOICE. AND IT'S A CHOICE I NO LONGER WISH TO MAKE." I've spent a good amount of time thinking about this one. I really have made major changes over the years in the kinds of food I eat and the choices I make. I've been on every diet plan ever invented. I know the calorie count in everything. I know what works and doesn't work. I've learned I don't do well eating any gluten products so I've cut them out of my diet (well, almost totally-perhaps there's a tiny cheat here and there). Dairy products make me wheeze so I've cut them out as well (okay, except for cheese now and then-I really need a bit of cheese on things-oh, and yogurt-but that's good dairy). I love sugar but I no longer eat candy. Sugar is the worst! (except for the one piece I might grab out of the basket at work, or the one I buy in the checkout stand at Michaels-I deserve a little treat every now and then, don't I?"

And then there's the exercise portion of the whole thing. Today I can't go for a walk because my knee really hurts. My fibromyalgia has been flaring up and my whole body hurts. I can't do the you tube yoga video because I don't have time to write my blog post AND do the video.

I guess you get by now where I'm going with this. I just haven't made THE SHIFT. It starts today. No, this isn't a diet. It's THE SHIFT. For me, THE SHIFT means I'm going to shift to being totally honest with myself about every morsel of food I put in my mouth. No, Kathy, a broken piece of a cookie doesn't mean the calories have escaped. And no, Kathy, YOU DON'T DESERVE IT BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN SO GOOD! It's time to be good to myself in other ways.