Obession With Dieting
- POSTED ON: Apr 27, 2011

   

 

                                              

“I just want to live a lifestyle free from an obsession with diets”

This appears to be a common Theme among dieters.
The majority of people just want the problem to go away.



They want to eat like "normal people"
and be in the "normal" weight range.
They'd like to lose and maintain their weight

without difficulty or much thought.

Some people who are only overweight,
or just above the border of obesity, are able to do this.

Unfortunately, those who have lived with a lifetime of obesity
are unlikely to ever accomplish this...
even when the way of eating is very simple.

I am one of those people with a history of morbid obesity,
who has lost a great deal of weight,
and I have maintained my weight near my goal for the past 5 plus years.

I have found it Beneficial to incorporate
an obession with diets into my personal lifestyle,
to Embrace the Devil,
and make Dieting into an enjoyable Hobby.

With some effort, an "obsession with dieting"
can be changed from a "bad" thing, into a "good" thing.

 


Over The Long Haul
- POSTED ON: Apr 20, 2011

 

Over The Long Haul m
ost diets or exercise plans work, 
if they are followed consistently long-term.
When people begin a new diet or exercise plan
they feel hopeful about their chances  
of success at achieving their individual goals, 
and during that first burst of enthusiasm 
is when they most tend to be most faithful to it.
But a year or two later, we don’t hear too much
from those people about  program X or program Y,
about what their weight and their fitness level is like at that point.
With both weight-control and fitness, 
maintenance is THE difficult long-term issue.
So it’s important to pay attention to what behaviors
that we can realistically continue over the long haul..
Each of us is an individual, with different likes and dislikes.
We need to take our own personal tastes and abilities 
under consideration when making our diet and exercise choices.
Then we need to make those diet and exercise behavior choices into Habits.
Over time, those positive Habits will become part of us
and our bodies…and attitudes…will change. 
But this does not occur without Effort.
The bodies of most fat, or formerly fat, people want to be fat;
and following the desires of those bodies
seldom results in long-term weight reduction.
 There really isn’t any going ON or OFF a diet. 
Eating is an endless necessity of life.
Everything we choose to eat at every point in time,
is the diet we individually choose,
and….for the most part….our bodies will reflect those choices.
Personal responsibility applies in every area of our lives.
Deciding NOT to “diet”  is in fact an eating choice.
We must use our minds to discipline our bodies,
similar to the way a loving parent provides care for a willful child.
There’s no temporary or easy way to do this.
It is important to Acknowledge and Accept the fact 
that this willful child within us isn’t ever going to “grow up”.
We will never be able to end our parental responsibilies.
That child will ALWAYS need special loving care,
and we are the only ones who can provide it.


Goals Don't Come Easy.
- POSTED ON: Apr 18, 2011

 

Personal Diet Modifications have their place,
but making any Food Plan into a Habit,
requires Consistency and Patience.

It is impossible to successfully make a Food Plan into a Habit,
if one changes the Plan every time one fails to meet its Guidelines.
No one is successful all of the time.

 To build a successful eating Habit it is necessary to:

Recognize a failure,
Accept that failure,
Resolve to reduce future failures,
Continue working to follow that Food Plan.

We have to overcome obstacles one at a time
Goals don't come easily,
but there is no accomplishment without work,
and no "win" without something to beat.

It's natural to get discouraged when roadblocks appear.
We invest time and emotion into creating the perfect plan,
and then something comes along and screws it up.

  Sometimes all we have to do
is to get back up and move forward again.
Obstacles are like that Wizard behind the curtain—
--once we see them up close they are much less intimidating.

Next time we take a step backwards,
let's not pile up guilt.
All we have to do is take two steps forward
and we'll still be further along than we were before.

It doesn't matter how many obstacles we face.
We only have to beat the most recent one.

 


Nobody's Perfect
- POSTED ON: Apr 17, 2011

 

                                

Nobody’s Perfect.
I’ve spent much of my life trying to fix my various flaws.

One of my life’s dynamics has been thinking
that if I could fix everything that’s wrong with me
it would make everything else around me okay too.

Finally, insight came that instead of focusing on fixing my flaws,
I need to Accept them…even love them.

For a long time, I thought that if I Accepted the things I felt were wrong with me,
I’d never be able to change them.
But really, love is what leads to real healing and transformation,
and ultimately it is the only thing that can actually create changes in us

 In truth, all of what each of us perceives as personal “flaws”
is a subjective value judgment, based on our own interpretations
our own perspectives.

We can obsess about certain aspects of our bodies:
on our appearance; on our personalities; on our lives or work circumstances,
and judge them to be “bad” or “flawed”.

But in truth,
they are what they are.
We are the ones who place the “bad” meaning or interpretation on them.
It is very human to experience a sense of feeling flawed
in certain aspects of our lives and at particular times in life.
There's nothing wrong with us for feeling that way.

However, feeling flawed can rob us of our energy,
our passion, our happiness, our confidence and our lives.

It's one of the most painful ways we can allow our egos to run us,
and it can have devastating consequences if we aren’t conscious of it.

Here are some ideas about how to move from feeling flawed
to a place of acceptance, peace and love.

Acknowledge what's true for you, personally. The first step is telling the truth.
Trying to avoid, run from or pretend our flaws don’t exist doesn’t work..
Admit and express the underlying emotions. If we can identify,
acknowledge and ultimately express the true emotions we feel about
these perceived flaws, we can create a real sense of freedom for ourselves.

Forgive ourselves. Self-forgiveness is something that some people
don't have much experience with. Many of us have been trained
to be hard on ourselves, and to believe that forgiveness must come
from someone or something outside of us.
However when we are able to forgive ourselves,
we create the space for real change and healing to take place.

Appreciate
. To appreciate means to recognize the value of something.
Sometimes dealing with our personal flaws teaches us a great deal about ourselves.
When we learn to appreciate and be grateful for what our difficulties have taught us,
we can move away from self-pity,
because It's impossible to experience gratitude and victimhood simultaneously.

Love. The ultimate antidote for all suffering is love.
Our ability to bring love to our flaws, to care for them with kindness
and compassion …like we would care for a child, a pet or a loved one,…
is what will ultimately cause the transformation we're looking for to take place.
When we love our flaws, we create an environment where we're either able
to make the kinds of specific behavior changes we truly want,
or able to learn to love and accept ourselves,
whether any change in the “flaw” takes place or not.

All of these things are much easier said than done.

Admitting the truth to ourselves, expressing our real emotions,
forgiving ourselves, appreciating our flaws, and loving all aspects of ourselves,
both the positive and the negative, gives us the opportunity to actually transcend our flaws.

Doing this takes a great deal of intention, support, compassion and patience.
It’s easier to take a pill, to get busy and distracted, to whine and complain, or to
pretend things are fine or continue with the other avoidance techniques we are good at.
But this is the way to can genuinely heal ourselves and end our cycle of suffering.


Swiss Steak or Roast - Crockpot
- POSTED ON: Apr 16, 2011


Makes 12 servings

Ingredients:

3 pound chuck roast
2 sliced onions
3 stalks sliced celery
12 oz canned tomato juice (salted)
2 Tablespoons granulated Beef Bouillon
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste (optional)
2 Tablespoons Thickener - like Corn-Starch or Xanthan Gum

Directions:

Slice onion and celery
Place onion in slow cooker
Place beef on top of onion.

In a bowl, stir the bouillon into the tomato juice.
add garlic powder and salt and pepper if desired.
Pour the mixture over the beef,
Scatter the sliced celery on top.

Cover slow cooker, set it to low and cook 8 to 10 hours,
OR, set it to high and cook for 6 hours.

After cooking, remove meat from crockpot,
mix  thickener with enough water to dissolve it,
then add to tomato sauce mixture, stir together,
and cook until sauce thickens.

Makes twelve  servings (approx 3 oz meat)

1  serving (approx 3 oz meat)

Calories: 356
Carbs: 5.5 grams
Protein: 34 grams



 


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