Monday I started the healthy diet I had been planning to start since the New Year began. This week I also went out and bought some financial magazines to help me review what I was doing and see if I could get any good ideas. So today, Thursday I sit down and start thumbing through Money magazine. I find an article that interests me and start to read it. Halfway through it I realize what I am reading. The article is titled "How Sweet It is" and is an article rating the best chocolate for Valentines Day. I can't believe it! Without even being conscious of what I was doing I gravitated to the article on chocolate in a financial magazine. It is so easy to slip back into bad habits. It can happen without you even being aware of what is going on.
Why is it so hard to change old habits?
by I quit! 7 Replies latest jw friends
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Rooster
I am on a no bread, rice, pasta diet. boo hoo. Pass the chocolate ice cream..
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anewme
Yesterday I started a new workout routine. I bought some hand weights and worked out the backs of my upper arms. Ah that felt good! Then I placed them on the dresser and they rolled off onto my left foot-----WHAM BAM!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Today my left foot is swollen and my toes are crushed and I cannot walk.
So much for self improvement!
Now I am back on the computer with my foot elevated.......munching snacks. -
jaguarbass
Hello I Quit: Good topic. It is a battle to change old habits. I've been battling and trying to change all my life. And still its only got me here. I guess I'm still alive at 54 so thats a good thing. I think many times we go through out the day on automatic pilot without being fully concious or aware. At least I think this is my case. I look for opportunities to escape reality, legally by making music. A bit of wisdom I read on the subject once said "cultivate good habits and make them your master"
Don't beat yourself up over the chocolate incident. Thats the way the American economy works we peoploids get to play the consumer and business through the media gets to yank our chain. Sometimes when they yank our chain they pull us where and into what they want. At other times, as in your case, they awaken you from your trance like state. When we are in the awake condition we have the most control of our lifes. Madison Avenue does not like the awake state. There constantly trying to beat us back to the numb condition with trance like music and pretty pictures. Enjoy the ride.
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I quit!
I can't have any rice or pasta either for the next ten days Rooster. I can have small amounts of bread but only whole grain. I'm not supposed to have any wine for the first stage of the diet but I snuck a glass a couple of nights ago.
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I quit!
Yesterday I started a new workout routine. I bought some hand weights and worked out the backs of my upper arms. Ah that felt good! Then I placed them on the dresser and they rolled off onto my left foot-----WHAM BAM!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Ouch!! Who says exercise is good for you? Next time get the Nerf weights.
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I quit!
I've been battling and trying to change all my life. And still its only got me here. I guess I'm still alive at 54 so thats a good thing.
That is kind of what brought this lifestyle change on with me. I just went to funeral Saturday for a friend of mine who died of a heart attack at age 49. He wasn't taking care of him self physically. Also he wasn't putting anything away for his family in case anything happened to him. I guess like all of us he felt there was plenty of time. Anyway I agree appreciate every day and just enjoy the ride.
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Carmel
Different strokes for different folks, but for years my wife and I tried to diet and never really succeeded until we joined Weight Watchers together. We began by counting "points" and found that we had to cut our portions in half from what we were used to consuming, then resist the temptation to have seconds. The third strategy was to drink a 16 oz glass of water about ten minutes before your lunch and dinner. You find the portions are plenty adequate and after a couple of weeks the pounds start to drop off. Your metabolism change takes that long, at least for those of us over 50 and if you are patient, you'll lose one to two pounds a week. We started last summer, late July and both have lost over 30 lbs. Weighing in every other day at home is important as a reinforcement plus the weekly weigh in at the meetings. I found the meetings a real test, but then I'm not into some of the conclusions that 90 women had convincing themselves they shouldn't have to experiance hungar or feel "deprived". I learned to enjoy hunger and enjoyed the deprivation too! It meant I was accomplishing something, changing habits and getting skinny at the same time.. Eight pounds to go and I won't have to pay membership fees anymore!!! Good luck! carmel