Yesterday not ideal? It's over! Get unstuck and move on! You've got to forgive yourself !

We can beat Ourselves  up for eating in a way that is not ideal to us - for 1 meal, 1 day, or years.

 Take the lesson, forgive yourself & move on.  As long as we are blessed with breath, we are given the opportunity to begin again.

Onward friends!  It's a brand new day 

Love & Hugs 

Yes it's a brand new day, dust off and keep it moving as Francis used to say ONWARD!

Thanks guys!  It was great to hear that.  I have been struggling for quite some time- about a year.  I am on my third day of sticking to my eating plan, and working out.  I feel like if I can just get a good week in I'll be back on track.  Thanks for the reminder not to beat myself up, very unproductive for sure.

That is the most important thing I have had to learn. I am very much a perfectionist concerning myself. Before if I messed up I might be able to let it go but there was always a point that I would become ashamed of my inability to quit the binge or what ever and would begin beating myself. From there it was downward until the binge became weeks or months long rather than a short term thing. I had to learn to forgive myself for being human and to recognize that it was my choice to do or not do what I needed. Either way I was not a bad person, a failure, or anything of the sort. I am simply human and we make mistakes.

I had all along counseled people to forgive themselves but could not apply it to myself until 3 years ago after I got my band. In learning to practice the "rules" I ran up against old behaviors and that was what I feared the most. I was so set on making my tool work that I had to rethink many of the things I thought I knew. When I learned to forgive myself it was so empowering that I felt free for the first time in many years. I am deeply grateful to God for bringing me to that point. I continue to counsel people who are hurting themselves over something to do the same thing.