Coping strategies: Take the true compliments

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week9 Day3)
I think I’m on to something here. I attended a big party last night and during the night got a very heart-felt, genuine compliment from a childhood friend. I think I last saw him in November last year, which was during the heavy drinking, heavy eating period I went [...]

Coping strategies: now that alcohol is here to stay

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week5 Day1)
Ah, gone are the days of Abstinence when alcohol was merely a distant thought (look at this entry from January!)!! It’s the beginning of my Week 5 on Route to Management, which is to say the only reason now I won’t be drinking any alcohol is if I decide [...]

Coping strategies: Stop right there!

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week4 Day1)
I’m freaking out, a bit. I have now had 3 bingey nights in a row. I’ve tried to work it out based on my mood & food diary in order to STOP IT ON ITS TRACKS. NOW. Man, I never thought I’d be ever so happy to have kept [...]

Don’t want it? Don’t eat it. It can be done.

(LighterLife Route to Management – Week1, Day1)
Another lesson learnt from my friend this week: If the food being offered is not something you want to eat, DO NOT EAT IT. Actually I’m not sure how that should be worded for the thought to come out the way it’s meant to:
If the food being offered is [...]

It shouldn’t be about food

I keep thinking about what I posted yesterday about needing to concentrate on how I feel about LIFE, not about food, in order to survive my new life.
How has this realisation come about for me? Well, one key contributor is the LighterLife Management manual, which is a little book we received from our councellor a [...]

Observation vs. Action

Today I read through all my posts so far. It’s already shaping up to a journey where I can now identify periods of a) frustration and feeling stuck, b) observing life and other people, and c) revelations about my own behaviour and feelings.
Unlike I feared, it was actually an enjoyable read (go on, try some [...]

Abstinence is taking its toll

I have been constantly thinking about ending abstinence. My crooked thinking (or is it crooked? still working my way around this one) has moved on from merely talking to me about WEIGHT to ‘only exercise, not abstinence, will make your thighs slimmer and your stomach firmer‘. AND ‘the muscle you’ll get will replace any remaining [...]

I hate running

Running. For as long as I can remember, I have hated running. I hate the thought of it, and I hate the doing of it. I recall doing some jogging when I was 14-15 years old, as part of my track training. But I didn’t like it then, and I never went jogging without a [...]

Blogging out of revenge?

Well. The initial inspiration for this blog was REVENGE.
Not very healthy, but there you go! I was reading other people’s LighterLife blogs and came across one by a woman in my own LighterLife group, who wrote how she would be happy to see the back of me as I always ‘had to rub it in’ [...]