Real good, then

eljay · Post by **eljay** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:48 pm

I have 5 red days on my April Habitcal --- and 5 GREEN days in May.

Today was a red (Mondays are a day off for me, and have been dreadful, all but one), purely due to lunch-on-the-road panic.

Glad that other people have shared their experience with multiple false starts, or that they just tottered around a lot at first. Soldiering on...

Sheiler · Post by **Sheiler** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:55 pm

I salute you, eljay,
It takes a lot more courage to keep trying when things get challenging than when things are easy. Keep soldiering on.

I try to remember to get up one more time than I fall. That's my definition of success.

eljay · Post by **eljay** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:34 am

Thanks for the encouragement, Sheiler, it is appreciated!

I might be poking fun because it seems like my habitcal is going backwards, but no s is the first diet that makes the keep on keepin' on even possible for me. I don't try most of them because I can't make it a day.

It's all a mental thing, but I'm pretty mental at this point in my life.

JillyBean · Post by **JillyBean** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:15 pm

eljay wrote:
It's all a mental thing, but I'm pretty mental at this point in my life.

Yup, "it's all a mental thing." I've known this for a while, but just did not know how to change it. That's where the habit-forming of this way works so well.

When I say I've know this for a while before that I used to think it was physical. I was a member of OA and that's the belief there. We have no control over it. That is step one. Talk about debilitating! I tried and tried and tried and couldn't get it. I had a sponsor once that said, "You know, Jill, it's all in your thinking." Boy, was she right! It's not about the food at all. I am realizing more and more that it's about habit!

This will work! Hang in there!