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Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles...

It empties today of its strength.

-Aunt Linda.    A quote from ‘Spark people.

Today started out tough, but turned out to be a beautiful day, here at our ‘summer retreat’, in Northern Victoria.

I have been using my observation and corrections technique on myself as I observe I am beginning to overeat again and observe this is probably in response to my concern over Reg’s health.  My husband Reg, having whooping cough at the moment and becoming very frail, having a lot of pain and difficulty walking.

I arranged for Reg and me to spend part of today in the garden, a lovely mood elevating place for a recovering man to relax for a while.  I also got some enjoyable exercise doing some gardening, and I’ve also put into practice eating regularly, more often, but small servings, today to counter my desire to eat often.

I do my weight bearing exercises, strength and balance training at gym tomorrow. I am doing this one day on and then two days off to allow myself to fully recover and it is being well supervised by my gym instructors.

I hope that soon this feeling of wanting to eat frequently, (emotional eating desire), will leave me as I put positive thoughts into place and accept that my overeating, - self abusing I will call it, in ‘straight talk’, will not cure Reg of the whooping cough. 
Why we want to walk to a fridge, open it, look for something to eat as instant gratification rather than seek the long term gratification of being slim and healthy, is obviously deeply entrenched in our nature, preconditioning no doubt from infancy, maybe someone gave us a sweet when we grazed our knee, the Doctor always had a jelly bean to give us after a needle.  It might have served us well then, but we are not children now and we don’t need to carry on behaviours that harm us. (LOL, self lecturing here  J )

I CAN DO IT.  I do not over eat.

It is OK to eat often if you crave to do so. Just eat healthy and less food, if your eating more often and you end up feeling satisfied, but not having appreciably overeaten.
As a physician once told me when I argued with him that 'I did eat healthy that i simple could not lose weight', (back then when I was obese), he said, ‘Take what you eat now and halve it’, that was good advice.

I’ve not done a lot of damage, I actually have gained one kilo of lean body mass, all muscle, according to my gym assessment and 1 kilo of fat.  They said, ‘not to stress the fat gain’, and I won’t but I do intend to release another 7 kilo of excess fat , not gain any, and so I am giving myself a little, ‘pep talk’, right here in my blog and reviewing my action plans and to do list, so I stay, right on track to my goal.

I’ll share my beautiful relaxing garden pictures with you. It was a lovely day today, and I know I’m not helping Reg by neglecting my own health and well being overeating or feeling like cutting gym and not going out when he isn’t well.  I WILL stay on track to goal, but eating portion controlled healthy foods I LOVE and exercising in a positive (my gym) environment, with people who will encourage and support me. The more I attend gym, the more they will know me there and give me the reinforcement of emotional support I need.

Surround yourself with positive people who reinforce your goals and personal belief.

 
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