| Well, the holidays are finally over. You lived through them. Wow, what a great time. The parties were terrific. All that eating and drinking. The food was spectacular. Everyone seemed to be trying to outdo each other with food. There was so much of all and it all tasted so great. Eating and drinking with your friends was wonderful. What a great time of year. You really enjoy just thinking about the wonderful time you had. However, this is the morning after. Now you’re back to your reality. Yes, you thought you had a great time, but now it’s time to pay the piper. Yes, you have to look at yourself in the mirror and get on the scale. What? No way! Not that! Not the scale! Not yet! It’s too scary. You need a couple of weeks to recover, to eat less, to “lose” the weight you’ve gained. Right. Fat chance. Now that you think about it did you do something good for yourself? Did you really make yourself happy? Now you’re getting angry. You don’t like to read this. You don’t want your judgment questioned. You don’t want a lecture. You’re going to do what you want to do. The difference is that now you’re miserable. Now you’re sorry. You are really unhappy about what you have done to yourself. You know how hard it is going to be for you to “lose” the weight you gained. If you ever will. You feel like crying. But, then again, you knew this was going to happen. It wasn’t a secret. You’ve done it every year. Don’t you wonder why you did something that you knew, in advance, was going to make you unhappy? And that you knew wasn’t good for you? What was it about the food that made you want to eat it? And as much of it as you did? It really must have been something powerful to cause you to do the damage you have done. Was it something you just couldn’t control? Was it the holidays? Was it the food? Was it the parties? What do you think would have happened if you didn’t eat all that food? Could you have lived though the holiday season if you didn’t eat all the food you did? You’re the one who hurt yourself. No one forced you to eat what you did. How about thinking about why you ate all that food? Don’t you think it’s time to understand why you eat enough food to keep yourself weighing what you don’t want to weigh? After all, if you don’t, no one will. |
