Sun, Nov-25-01, 14:39
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,483
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Plan: Protein Power
Stats: 197/184/145
BF:45%/32%/22%
Progress: 25%
Location: South Eastern Ontario
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So glad to see you are still hanging in there. It's been a rough haul for you, but you are still here and willing to go at it. That takes courage, and shows that deep down inside you want this to work for you. Hurdle one was in front of you and you jumped over it, clearing it by a mile. You could have walked away and said forget it, BUT YOU DIDN"T.
This may sound odd, but have you tried thinking about LCing as a special treat you are doing just for yourself? Kind of like going to the hairdresser for a new cut, or treating yourself to a manicure or facial. It's something that you can do just for you and nobody else, something to make you feel good, something that pampers you.
If you need to feel successes along the way, set lots of goals to celebrate achieving the things that are rough going... like the first day you drink more than 64 oz of water, ...then treat yourself to something small and special, a pretty new scarf if you wear them, or earings ... little treat things that you wouldn't otherwise buy for yourself. If you can celebrate the little but very important steps along the way, instead of waiting for big things, it may help you feel like you are succeeding. Success is more a measure of how much heart you are putting into this (and you are putting plenty of that into it) and how you manage to overcome the stumbling blocks.
It doesn't matter how much you lose or how fast it comes off. Those things are the side affects of overcoming the stumbling blocks.
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