Dieting vs Lifestyle

This isn’t not my first time losing weight.  I’ve been dieting all my life, I’ve lost hundreds of pounds but when the diet ended the weight returned. This time I’m not dieting, I’m fighting that “diet” mentality and replacing it with the question, “Can I do this way of eating forever?”  The answer for today is, YES I CAN!  I can live this new lifestyle of eating reasonable, healthy, best choices and strive for doing even better at my next meal.  What happens if I make a poor choice?  Each moment of my new way of living allows me to make the food best choices I can, if in a moment I make a choice that is considered poor maybe it’s because it’s the best I could do at that moment.  But does that mean I quit and go back to my old ways?  Of course not!  Each moment I choose to be better, do better, live better… that is MY choice – food has no power in gratitude!  In dieting I felt restricted, deprived, angry, different, and depressed.  In my new way of living I’m eating foods that feed my body and are nutritionally sound.  These choices make my body feel better and in that space I don’t need to overeat to get my “feel good fix”.  Eating and living life is full of ups and downs and so is my new way of living.  In the end, making the best food choices will result in weight loss, and allow me to live happier and healthier for today.

 

Steve Colbeth
FORWARD RESET
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If I Quit Now

 

If I quit now…. I WILL be back where I started.  I’m so grateful for where I am at in my journey.  Even though the path is filled with peaks and valleys it wasn’t long ago I was back at the beginning and desperately wishing to be where I am today.

 

Living life happier and healthier for today!

 

Steve Colbeth
FORWARD RESET

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What's The Real Price?

 

Every bite, every lick, every taste, it has a price doesn’t it?  Maybe your are calorie counting to keep your weight under control, have you considered adding up your bites, tastes and licks?  If so, you know that these mindless food portions add up and sometimes quickly!

Do you finish your kids plates, consume the last of something in a pan, have a sample or two while out shopping, taste a spoonful of what you are cooking, what is the real price of these seemingly harmless portions of food?

 We often start out strong on our journey to eat healthier, to rid ourselves of unwanted pounds, and our diligence and hard work begin to show on the scale, and then we begin to discover something even greater, those non-scale rewards!

 It’s awesome to see the numbers decrease when you step on the scale and even better are the non-scale rewards: fitting into clothing, being able to move easier in your body, health check-ups with positive outcomes, sitting in a movie theater seat and fitting!  All of these non-scale rewards are victories in our journey to becoming happier and healthier for today.

 So what is the real price we pay for these bites, licks, and tastes, the little portions of leftovers we consume?  If we are tracking our food honestly we know there is a price for everything that goes in our mouths so now lets consider that when we go about our day and dip our finger in the cookie dough batter… what is the real price of that finger lick?  What non-scale reward will I be giving up for those uncounted calories, my health, my new clothing size, all the hard work I’ve done to become better, is it worth it? 

 Each of us has to decide with every bite we take what the real price is for eating the foods we eat, the portions we consume, and how it affects our outcomes and goals.

 Today I will consider all the bites, licks, and tastes, the unused portions of food, everything that crosses my lips and weigh that to the benefits I gain from sticking to healthy living.  For today I choose to live happier and healthier!

 

 

 

Ideas For A Spring Table

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Being Extreme

For many of us who overeat we tend to be extreme; extremely extreme at times. We will go to any length, use any rational to acquire foods that will provide us maximum joy for that moment we indulge.  Equally extreme is the guilt and shame that follows a binge and the extreme promises to never do such a thing ever again, especially when we know full well we eventually will. 

John is a grossly overweight man.  He overeats in binges and feels like most of his life is in control but will admit freely that he occasionally makes bad food choices despite his best intentions.  John will freely admit this because he can’t hide it.  It is blatantly obvious to all around John that he is overweight.  But John has to take to the extreme, he’s unwilling to admit he is not in control.  Sometimes John attempts to be in control of his eating by announcing he is dieting, when he fails he proclaims he has an undiagnosed health condition.  In this way, John attempts to show control even as he completely fails at controlling; extremes. 

Sally won’t spend $20 to join a support group or fitness club but she has no issue at all justifying $20 or more a week for take-out food.  “We all have to eat don’t we?”, she remarks when asked about her budget choices. 

John is extreme in that he must appear in control.  When he is obviously not in control, his extreme nature creates an alternate reality for John, one in which HE is in control but his undiagnosed health condition is the cause of failure.  Sally is extreme in that she won’t spend a penny on things that could actually help her but has no issue spending extravagant amounts of money to make sure she has her fix of binge foods. 

Of course there are varying degrees of both of these examples but I think most of us can in some way relate to these stories in their own lives.  We are too extreme, extremely extreme sometimes.  Most of our recovery from stinking thinking is going to be learning to cope in an imperfect world without the use of food for comfort.  Our food choices should feed and nourish our bodies, it should be tasty and enjoyable, but it should not be used to cope. 

 Learning to be perfectly imperfect is a major part of our journey in FORWARD RESET.  First, we must admit we have a problem, it is then we can look inside ourselves and exam our actions and intentions, identify characteristic about ourselves that need work, and begin the process of healing.

 Life is imperfect, we are imperfect and learning to cope with that idea is perfectly perfect.  We identify our extreme behaviors and work on allowing imperfections to be realized, we cope. 

 Living life happier and healthier, letting go of extreme behavior, finding ways to cope outside of food, and doing so perfectly imperfectly is the FORWARD RESET way!