We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy
today. Sydney Smith
Yesterday I mostly
ate Beef Hot Pot, it was tremendous and If I could guarantee the next one
tasted like that I think I’d eat it every week, mmm. All that was in it was casserole beef (20pp),
carrots, onions, sliced potatoes (9pp) on the top and a packet of Colmans lamb hot
pot mix (3pp) (Lamb was the only mix I had in the house, really tasty though). So simple to make too, and apart from the mix
all come under the Filling and Healthy banner. It will definitely be one to try and recreate
in the future.
I enjoyed my meetings
yesterday, I love it when you open up and actually talk about how you all feel because
it usually makes us all realise we all have similar things going on in our
minds. If there was a genie of the lamp
and he turned up with some wishes, one of them would be to let people be happy
with themselves, to appreciate how fabulous they are, but at the same time for
them to continue to strive to be their best, whilst taking care of and loving
their already ‘good enough’ self. Mmm,
if only ay!
Alfie woke me up at
3am to go up the garden, he doesn’t do that very often so he must have really
needed to go, then he starts barking so I had to go outside to shush him, WOW
what a beautiful sky it was, clear as anything and just an amazing display of
stars, it’s been a while since I’ve been and looked at the stars, we really do
live on an amazing planet.
I’m in a ‘life’s
really too short’ state of mind this week for one reason and another, and I’ve noticed
that when I approach a problem with this thought in mind it actually puts it
into perspective. There are so many
things we can’t change in our lives (actually we could but that’s a different
conversation all together!) we can however change our response and it makes so
much difference to how those situations affect you. It’s not something you have to do once
either, it’s something you have to continually remind yourself of; in any given
situation you can choose your response.
The same goes for the
person we are, yes we have personality traits and certain individual characters,
we also have the power to change if we so choose to. I’m not saying its easy but it’s doable,
there’s no quick fix solution either, it’s taken me years to change and I’m
still changing, I expect I will continue to change till the day I die – I hope
so anyway.
I’ve heard a lot of “I
can’t…..” this week or “I couldn’t……” Those statements are never true, and
should be reworded “I choose not to…..” or you could say, “I’d find it
difficult to….” But the “I can’t…”
statements I hear in my meetings are never true!
The above might not
be making total sense, I’m kind of processing things in my head and typing out
loud so to speak, that’s a bit how I feel this week, there’s stuff going on in
my head and I’m trying to process it.
Yesterday I realised
we’re 18 weeks away from Christmas and I thought about what I could send out to
my missing members to encourage them to return, the usual is “lose a stone for
xmas” kind of message but my purpose in life if I have one isn’t just to get people
to lose weight it’s to get them to realise it isn’t all or nothing, it’s a life
long thing, yeah if they’ve been missing all summer they have probably gained
which is what we’ve all done in the past, so they can come back and
turn over a new leaf this autumn, lose weight in time for Christmas, then start
all over again in the new year. But what
I want us all to do is to decide this time to lose it forever, to find the
balance between indulging and total personal destruction! It can be found, I’ve managed it. I’m not saying I’ve got to my goal and stayed
there, but I have lost a lot of weight and kept it off for 8 years now. My weight still fluctuates up and down but I
never go into total self destruct like I used to, when I’d lose all interest in
my own self care, because healthy eating is part of that self care pattern, it’s
no good doing your hair, buying nice clothes and wearing lots of make up if
your poisoning your body with copious amounts of crap food, that’s kind of
defeating the object. Polishing the
outside and poisoning the inside isn’t a good combination but so many do it, I’m
no longer one of those people, I indulge, a little too much at times but I
never go into total meltdown anymore where I lose it completely.
So
Do it for yourself! And remember Weight Loss is for Life - NOT JUST FOR
CHRISTMAS!
On that note, I’m going for a walk, apologies if my
blog’s a little haphazard, random or o.t.t. this morning but that’s kind of
where my head is at today, a good walk and some thinking time might help that
;-)
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