If you really do put a small value upon
yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price!
I got to do it, and I’m so glad, what? I had a lie in this morning, no having to be
up for a certain time to do something or be somewhere! I did wake at my usual 5ish time but refused
to move, Alfie tried to wake me and I told him to sod off, and in the end it
was mom getting up just before 7 than woke me and I went to make her a
drink. A good eight hours had though
which was what I needed, I’m feeling a little not with it this morning but that’s
to be expected, I’m not rushing today, I have stuff I’ll be doing but none of
it with gusto ;-)
I’m back on track too, had a delicious lunch yesterday,
sirloin steak (7pp), new potatoes (4pp) and stir fry for 12pp (1pp for oil
spray), I hadn’t had breakfast, I didn’t really need anything more than a cuppa
after what I’d eaten the day before! For
tea I just had a chicken tikka sandwich for 7pp, and red wine with what was
left of my allowance and the 5pp I’d earned on my pedometer.
We’ve just had cheesy crumpets for breakfast, mom had one
and I had two for a total of 7pp = bargain ;-)
I weighed the cheese, 10g per crumpet, weighed my crumpets 2
for 5pp, and popped them under the grill, scrumptious.
Moving away from food for a moment, yes we can do it; we can
be brave and not think about food for a little while ;) I’m always amazed at
how people see themselves, how its usually so much different to what others
see, I know this lady who I’ve only actually met once, but have talked to often
via facebook and she’s gorgeous, seriously attractive, you know the kind you
meet them and instantly think “WOW”, the type who’s not only visually beautiful
but funny, sharp, on the ball, holds attention and has just the right amount of
sarcasm to not be insulting. Yet at the
moment all she’s acknowledging are the scales and a number on them, she’s
letting them define her mood and tell her how she looks, she’s letting that
number on the scales take away from all the other amazing qualities she has,
instead of using all those other qualities to help her kick those scales into
touch.
Yep, we need to learn to use our strengths to help us
conquer our weaknesses, so an easy example would be I love eating and I love
delicious food, back to food again, I knew it wouldn’t be long, so my weakness
would be overindulgence in the tasty food, my strength is I love to learn, so I’ve
learned to cook my own delicious foods that are lower in ProPoints which means
I can eat more of it! The money I save
cooking my own meals because it does work out cheaper in the long run, plus you
eat less food trying to not gain weight, gets spent on fine wine, another
weakness! Yes I’ve realised if I buy a
decent red wine I drink it slower and drink less!
So what are your strengths, how can they help you overcome your
weaknesses, when you look in the mirror do you not see the YOU everyone else
sees. One of the best things I’ve
learned over the last few years is to listen to compliments, take them on
board, believe them, believe people when they say something positive and lovely
about you and remember those words. Either
everyone out there is a liar, or I am actually a lovely person most of the
time! Why would they lie? Ask yourself that, why would you have lots of
friends if no one liked you and you were as dreadful as you think you are! If your weight defined you as a person, why
aren’t your best mates saying good bye I’m off you’ve gained a stone, you’ve
changed?
Doesn’t that sound silly when you read it ;-)
So today instead of beating yourself up when you look in the
mirror, smile and say, “still gorgeous, so what we gonna do to lose this weight
that’s crept on, how can we do it?”
Then get proactive and be positive, you can do this and it’ll
be so much easier if you like yourself to start with. X
I’m off to give my beautiful self a nice relaxing bath, lots
of bubbles. Whatever you’ve planned for
today, enjoy it. x
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