Thin Tastes Better ~ Step Six Continued

Oct 23, 2010

This is the Sixth step conclusion. Loads of WONDERFUL info....

THE SIX STAGES OF DIETING

Stage 1: Pain and Desperation
"Although this is often the stage that propels overweight people into treatment, it can slo become a black hole, in which the motivation to change is overwhelmed by a sense of futility and self-loathing." (p.150)

Stage 2: Action
"The point at which you make the crucial move of getting into some sort of weight program or putting yourself on a diet." (p.150)

Stage 3: Structure
"You start applying the principles of the weight program to your day-to-day life." (p. 151)

Stage 4: Recognition
"The turning point...clothes feel looser..If you've been making the necessary cognitive switches, you understand that you may be losing the weight but you have not lost the problem. Just because the pounds come off doesn't chnve your taste buds or your vulnerability to your trigger foods." (p.151)

Stage 5: Success
"You've reached your [goal weight]!"

Stage 6: Maintence
"...the rush of success starts to wear off. You've gotten used to seeing your new self in the mirror. Your friends are no longer amazed at your appearance...you are getting down to the business of living thin."
"Now, more then ever, you need to make use of your tapes, your Cognitive switching, and the lessons of your eating print. Keep pictures of your old, unhappy self around as  vivid reminders of what the good old days were really like." (p.152)
These steps are crucial to keep in mind on the way to a physical goal. It's so much more then being a smaller size! It's about making those healthy eating choices and using your body as it was designed and intended to be used and feeding it the foods that make it work at it's peek performance.


PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
"...take one meal at a time, slowly but surely piecing together one small success aftera another."
"Most food control slips - are the result of momentary memory lapses."
"You can prevent momentary indiscretions from becoming monumental disasters by staying involved in activities that bolster your sense of vitality and control..." (p. 153)


KEEP MOVING
"...improving your health, incereasing your resting metabolism, and buildng muscle mass, exercise generates neurochemicals that lift your spirits and reduce your appetite." (p. 153)
This is HUGE!!! It should be memorized and kept forever in the fore front of thinking and behavior

HOOK INTO A SUPPORT NETWORK
"It is far more productive for those who share this problem to meet together and discuss it than to keep the feelings bottled up inside." (p. 154)
Sharing WLS experiance and getting help and sharing your own eating behaviors and changes is KEY in the success (in my view) of living thin and staying thin! I love OH for that and my WLS support group that I attend monthly. The more accountable you are to others, the more likely you are to always live the thin lifestyle.

GET A BUDDY (p.154)
I have found several 'buddies' and friends that are at different stages of WLS. Some just starting, some years out and maintaning, others that have 'failed' (not reached goal weight), and others that had WLS the same time I did. All of these help ME to keep focused on my own success and my own healthy living and exercising. I email daily with several of them and now I have even taken on mentoring two women that are just starting this process. It is a wonderful thing! You truly do help yourself when helping others! 

Coping in the Real World: What to Do When You have No Choice
"Treat it as a single isolated incident and don't waste time blaming yourself or feeling guilty. It is not the isolated incident of a dinner party or [occasional montly eating at a fancy resturant], but what you eat on a day-to-day basis that makes you heavy." (p. 156)
You are what you eat! Eat protein first then your veggies and follow that with a FEW HEALTHY startchs. Be sure to get in your daily fluids and exercise. That's the commandments of WLS eating.

MASTERING THE SIX STEPS
"When a piece of food endangers the quality of life itself, when you cannot run and play with the kids because your weight makes you easily winded, when you cannot enjoy a night out on the town with the one you love because you despise the way you look in your clothes, when your doctor has told yo uthat your cholesterol is way too high and that you are a heart attack waiting to happen, when your dissatisfaction with the image you see in the mirror affects how confidently or aggressively you present yourself at work or in the community, when how you look prevents you from meeting people or asking somebody out on a date, or just going up to a person and saying "hello," then THERE IS NO CHOICE, THERE IS NO CONTEST - THAT FOOD OR FOODS MUST GO."
"You can eliminate what you connot control...You can avoid or limit the foods and behaviors that once tripped you up and still feel satisfied after a meal." (p.157)
"Even if you slip, you'll pick yourself up and move on...You can take your occasional mistakes, learn from them, and come away even stronger....The slips in life should teach us not defeat us." (p. 158)
I love "There is no choice, there is no contest! That food MUST GO!" Nothing is more important then my personal health. Nothing! If I'm not healthy then I can't ensure my children's and family's health. I have to be as healthy, centered and as happy as I can be in order to help give those things to my family. Their lives are far more important then mine and they deserve a healthy, active role model so that THEY know how to eat properly and healthy.

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