Accessible Gardening: Compassion for gardeners in pain #5, 1 by BirdieBlue

BirdieBlue wrote:
Katie - your decision " not to hassle myself about diet and exercise wile I'm so sick with a cold and conjunctivitus." sounds exactly like the self talk of someone who does not want to change dietary habits. Neither a cold or pink eye are valid reasons for delaying making positive dietary changes such as talking to a dietician or reading online (heck, DG probably has threads!) about what constitutes a "healthy diet" (the term diet here refers to whatever food is ingested). If you've gained weight over the past few months and have been depressed...well, probably many of us have been there. Oh the depression gobbling had me to where it was just not comfortable sitting anymore. My big belly got in the way, unless I was reclining. Finally, after slowly watching the scales creep up over a couple of years, October of 2007 I stopped eating carbs and sugars mostly. No fast food, no pizza, no cheese, ice cream, chips, etc, etc, etc. I had to go 100% cold turkey with a "Never" rule. Over 18 months I lost 45 lbs. Now I will go out for Pizza or have a burger on a rare occasion. I pretty much have to NOT go for the Breyers 2 for $5 sale though because I can go thru them both in 2-3 days.
BUT----My first goal was to start making healthy dietary choices Not to lose weight. that was an end result of my changes though and mentally I even felt better.
SO - I really want to encourage you to find some healthy foods that you really enjoy and then you might see this as adding some good things rather than having to do without the other stuff.
I hope you can tell that I only wrote this cause I care Change of any kind isn't easy, but sometimes the reward is really great!

Sheri

PS ~ {{{hugs}}} from Elvis