Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy, but the worst habit you could possibly have.
– Dale Carnegie

Whine, whine, whine.  Haven’t we all been there?  We see thin people chow down on brownies and ice cream and just watching them makes our fat cells expand. We cry, “It’s not fair!” and buy a candy bar to console ourselves.

Not smart.

The worst thing you can do is fall into the “It’s hopeless,” “I can’t” self-pity pit.  (I know, I’ve spent some time in that hole myself.)  Dwelling on how losing weight, or life in general, is so much harder for you than others, takes a huge toll on your emotional energy.  When you have expended your “oomph” in anger, you won’t have it to be doing something productive.  Even worse, it’s as if you dig a groove into your brain every time you yield to those negative thoughts.  “I can’t, I can’t.  It’s no use,” you think.  Pretty soon you will have convinced yourself of that so thoroughly that it becomes true.  Self pity can become a habit. A joy-sapping, energy-deleting, defeating habit.

So get out of the pit!  No one guaranteed you a “fair” life.  Shake it off and do what you have to do to succeed.   If your weight loss efforts haven’t been successful, you just have to figure out what is holding you back — and adjust for it.  Maybe you need to try harder. Cheat less.  Push for more steps in your step program.  No program will work unless you work it. Maybe it will be harder for you and will take you longer, but you will get there.  When you do, you will have earned the right to be proud of yourself for accomplishing something difficult, even more difficult than for other folks.

The only other option is staying in the pit until you are too sick to do anything else.  So climb out and head back down the road to the place you want to be — beyond gorgeous!

Eating to live and living for Christ,

Susan Jordan Brown