Thinking about "blame" and "guilt", trying to decide if those words come into play in my thinking about my weight. I have thought of my overeating as a "flaw" and a "weakness" and even my "fault" but I have lots of those. "Guilt" is too strong a word for what I feel, and I'm not a blamer in general. It's not as if we're going around robbing banks or murdering people or abusing children or something (although I do have my doubts about some of you...) we just tend to eat too much, for whatever reason, and we're not stealing the food from other people, either! So I guess what I'm saying is that we shouldn't beat ourselves up about it as much as we do. It is aggravating that we have been overweight, a pain in the a**, extremely inconvenient, embarrassing even, but here we are doing something about it. I, for one, love the praise and the compliments I am getting on my "achievement" so far. It has been a lot of work for me but it is a labor of love.

Liz