"An inside job"
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 6:54 pm
Anne Lamott published a great article on starting diets on Jan. 1 - funny and insightful. Here's the full text.
My favorite excerpts are near the end, past all the funny comments about the latest "It diet".
My favorite excerpts are near the end, past all the funny comments about the latest "It diet".
Hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays, and is looking forward to a healthy New Year filled with love, pride, and connection.So please join me in not starting a diet January 1st.
It's really okay, though, to have (or pray for) an awakening around your body. It's okay to stop hitting the snooze button, and to pay attention to what makes you feel great about yourself, one meal at a time. Horribly, it's yet another inside job. If you are not okay with yourself at 185, you will not be okay at 150, or even 135. The self-respect and peace of mind you long for is not out there. It's within. I hate that. I resent that more than I can say. But it's true.
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I'll leave you with this: I've helped some of the sturdier women at my church get healthy, by suggesting they prepare each meal as if they had asked our beloved pastor to lunch or dinner. They wouldn't say, "Here Pastor--let's eat standing up in the kitchen. This tube of barbecue Pringles is all for you. i have my own" And then stand there gobbling from their own tubular container. No, they'd get out pretty dishes, and arrange wonderful foods on the plates, and set one plate before Veronica at the table, a plate filled with love, pride and connection. That's what we have longed for, our whole lives, and get to create, now, or or on the 1st. Wow! And God bless you all real good, as my pastor always says.