Becky Thank you!!
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Starting reading a book called "Keeping It Off" by Robert H. Colvin and Susan C. Olson. This book was mentioned in the other book I've been reading "Thin for Life". ~I like to read~
Anyways there was a section that really hit home for me yesterday and I'm posting it here just in case it resonates with others. The
bold is my insertion, not the book's.
"The one big mistake is waiting to have your rescue carried out for you. By your wife or husband, by your parents, friends or clergyman, by your lawyer, accountant, analyst, psychiatrist or guru, by anyone. They are not here now. When you need them most, now, they are out to lunch. Not only that, but some of them are very expensive.
Who you need is you. You, your best friend, closest ally, greatest sympathizer, most sincere admirer and flatterer, most trusted confident -- and perhaps just as often your most savage critic. You, where it hurts, where it's lonely and chaotic, full of worries and unwelcome surprises. The victim needs himself.
The one in need of rescue must undertake it himself in behalf of himself."
And this old fable (Little Red Hen) comes back to me so many times when I feel that I'm doing everything -- mainly because
I AM doing everything!
From the book:
"If you have all the responsibility, and you have to do the job all by yourself, then the results of the effort are
all yours. You don't have to -- indeed, you mustn't -- share them with anyone else."
Eating healthy, exercising and repeating the process day-after-day is a solitary choice. Yes, there are supporters and cheerleaders along the way. There are also critics and naysayers along the way. But on the way, it's only
YOU or to more personalize it,
ME.
I choose what goes in my mouth. I choose to how and when to move my body. Nobody can do this for me,
I must do it myself for myself.