To Do List

Write up your food plan (takes about 3 minutes!)
read your truth cards at least twice
read other truth cards as needed
eat slowly, seated
express gratefulness when you engage in helpful eating behaviors
exercise
create a believe it truth card
progress report
remind self of behavior and mindset changes you have made in the past 5 weeks
weigh and record

also are you still....

consulting diet coach
making dieting a priority
tolerating hunger and cravings
responding to lies with truth

DAY 36

Believe It

Have you lost weight so far?
Do you find yourself not believing it'll last?
Well, believe in yourself.
You have done it so far!
Think of all the behaviors you have improved.
~how often do you eat standing up?
~ mindlessly?
too quickly?
See? you have made great improvements!
What about improvements in your thinking?
~how often do you fool yourself?
condemn yourself?
You have changed a lot! And you will be able to keep doing it!
Once I believe I have lost weight due to my own efforts dieting will be easier.

DAY 35

Get ready to weigh in.

It has been 5 weeks. Good Job!
Tomorrow you will weigh yourself and
remind yourself that the scale is a tool to learn from.
It does not measure your worth.

Prayer

When you stop trying to control your life and instead allow your anxieties and problems to bring you to God in prayer, you shift from worry to watching. You watch God weave his patterns in the story of your life, you realize youare inside God's drama. As you wait, you begin to see him work, and your life begins to sparkle with wonder. You are learning to trust again.

A Praying Life..Paul Miller

Prayer

When you know that you can't do life on your own,
then prayer makes complete sense.


A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller

DAY 34

Solve Problems
Thinking clearly about a problem will help you to be less upset.
First step define the problem.
Then identify negative thoughts running through your mind.
Is this neg thought true or is there another way to view this?
What would I tell a friend in this situation?
What should I do now?

Be realistic. Sometimes there is nothing to be done about a problem you have no control over. But taking the steps to examine your thinking and identifying that there is a problem will go a long way to helping you to handle it without overeating.

Sometime you just have to feel the emotion or do the uncomfortable task. You need a helper. You may need a person and you definitely need to cry out to God.

Back From Vacation

Before I left for vacation (me and my sisters watching fireworks) I prepared in the way day Day 32 instructed us to, and it worked. I decided ahead of time on a plan all the way down to saying I can have 1/2 of a cinnamon roll at Grandma's. I lost 2 pounds on vacation! I got the hang of stopping before I was stuffed also and that felt so good to not HURT at the end of a meal. It feels really good to eat "just enough". Try it sometime. It was also easy to distract myself with relationships on vacation. They were more satisfying than the food. Now the battle begins. The stress of real life is back and I am tired and sick. I need to get back to the plan before I gain weight. I need to apply what I learned on day 33 about not eating because I feel bad. Because I do feel bad and I just wanna eat.