What abstinence means to me
I've had alot of people ask me what I was abstaining from. I've told them compulsive overeating, but what does that mean? To me, it means that I follow my food plan as I've written it down, 3 healthy meals a day in moderate portion sizes with nothing in between. When I eat my client's food, it's usually a white flour product, which tends to make me break my abstinence even more at lunch time, usually by eating too much volume, rather than unhealthy food.
My main problem is volume. This means that left to my own devices, I will tend to eat too much food when I have a meal. This causes me guilt, which I don't need. Also, eating food in between meals causes me guilt as well, especially when I sneak eat my client's food, which is a big no-no, and is actually a form of stealing. According to my company's rules for me as a home health aide, I am not to bring any food with me, nor eat any of my client's food, even if it's offered to me.
The above are the "rules" of my abstinence within OA.
Denise Phares/kitties4
P.S.: By following this plan, I lost 28 pounds in 2007. I went astray when my family doctor ordered me to cut more calories, which brought back the "lose weight fast" obsession I had been relieved of. I lost the 28 pounds slowly, which she commended me for, but she wanted me to lose it faster, which I deeply resented. I am just now getting back to the plan which lost me that weight, after trying Weigh****chers again, as well as my brother's recommended vegan diet, which just doesn't fit my life style.
Thanks for your interest and support, everybody!
DP/k4
My main problem is volume. This means that left to my own devices, I will tend to eat too much food when I have a meal. This causes me guilt, which I don't need. Also, eating food in between meals causes me guilt as well, especially when I sneak eat my client's food, which is a big no-no, and is actually a form of stealing. According to my company's rules for me as a home health aide, I am not to bring any food with me, nor eat any of my client's food, even if it's offered to me.
The above are the "rules" of my abstinence within OA.
Denise Phares/kitties4
P.S.: By following this plan, I lost 28 pounds in 2007. I went astray when my family doctor ordered me to cut more calories, which brought back the "lose weight fast" obsession I had been relieved of. I lost the 28 pounds slowly, which she commended me for, but she wanted me to lose it faster, which I deeply resented. I am just now getting back to the plan which lost me that weight, after trying Weigh****chers again, as well as my brother's recommended vegan diet, which just doesn't fit my life style.
Thanks for your interest and support, everybody!
DP/k4
OA was the first program that helped me see that the goal to become healthier is all-encompassing: it includes mind, body, spirit.
Weight loss is, technically, a side effect of being holistically healthy. It occurs for most people when we reach a "normal place" when dealing with food intake/exercise levels.
In your case, if I may speculate, the "real problem" is really more related to being older. I know I am roughly your age. Unfortunately, like it or don't, the way an older person loses weight is to cut calories. I mean, you may drop a few more doing it your way, but chances are you will hit a Mother Plateau!
My point here with the speculative piece is that you have a choice, accept your body and food intake the way it is, or make the commitment to cut calories! Both ways are perfectly acceptable!
Look at it this way, you are not gaining, right? Sometimes we need to remember the weight we did NOT gain - and look less at the weight we have not lost.
You are trying to get healthy in mind, body & spirit! I think you are doing very well as is.
Weight loss is, technically, a side effect of being holistically healthy. It occurs for most people when we reach a "normal place" when dealing with food intake/exercise levels.
In your case, if I may speculate, the "real problem" is really more related to being older. I know I am roughly your age. Unfortunately, like it or don't, the way an older person loses weight is to cut calories. I mean, you may drop a few more doing it your way, but chances are you will hit a Mother Plateau!
My point here with the speculative piece is that you have a choice, accept your body and food intake the way it is, or make the commitment to cut calories! Both ways are perfectly acceptable!
Look at it this way, you are not gaining, right? Sometimes we need to remember the weight we did NOT gain - and look less at the weight we have not lost.
You are trying to get healthy in mind, body & spirit! I think you are doing very well as is.
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." ~Mark Twain
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