When I was at my Management group this week, I met someone who has lost six and a half stone. Yep, 90 lbs.
And now she is tiny and looks incredible - not just in a visual sense but in the way she carries herself. She looks comfortable in her skin and conveys that. It was an eye opener, on SO many levels.
In my usual way, I asked her LOTS of questions because, if I am honest, she LOOKS like someone who hasn't had a weight issue although quite what that means, I don't know. I expected her to say that she had lost nearly 3 stone in Foundation and was now moving over. BUT what is interesting is that I was not the only person who felt like that!
She talked about the usual things that certain people doing LighterLife and other VLCDs may recognise - she didn't miss food and all the mental stuff around food. You know the shopping, the choosing, the preparing, the consuming, the clearing up after... I didn't miss all those things, either.
The second thing I noticed was her approach; she had a clear run in Foundation and Development - she just got on with them. She was in the zone.
And because she's in the zone, she has no problem making the programme a priority.
So, going to class is a great boost, a great reminder, a great tonic and antidote to the blues, which have been hitting me thick and fast in recent weeks.
Second, it's about accessing those moments when the programme IS working/has worked, particularly when you feel it's just too much hassle. When the compulsion to eat is SO overwhelming, I am not in the zone. And I'm certainly not feeling in the mood for a thought record. But maybe, what I need to interrupt a binge is to access, somehow, times when I have felt good, when I have believed this programme is worth it.
Hi Mrs. I'm very close to where you are now except that I have gained more weight! I suspect that we're both trying to hard to make things "perfect". I have this feeling that, because I didn't do RTM properly, I won't "get it". This is counter-productive. I would like to kind of start again with management but am not sure whether I can, especially while I'm now back to trying to lose weight again!
The important thing though is that is HAS been worth it!! We're both a hell of a lot smaller than we were - a normal size after all these years!! This is huge. We've learned a lot but maybe don't put all of it in practice. We haven't given up and have NOT failed at this dieting thing!!
I think meeting people for whom the diet and staying slim afterwards seems easy is a bit demoralising but we should try and learn from them and embrace their world (however dull it seems!).
Keep up the questing and you have an ally here.
Lesley x
Posted by: Lesley | November 29, 2007 at 09:32 AM