Preparing for Change – Step 3

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

I have these little slips of wisdom all over the place!  Quite a few years back I started saving them and have a number of them plastered on the wall or stored in my card case wallet.

This morning while I was lying in bed debating whether or not to get up & go to the 6:00am torture fitness class I signed up for, I had several of those little slips running through my head.

Most notably was this one I got last August....

And this one I got last night....

The one I got last night has really stuck in my head.

I have a closet full of clothes that I wore once & then gained back enough weight to not wear them again in a couple of weeks.

It's this thing I've been noticing that I do.  I lose weight. Celebrate by buying new clothes....instead of eating chocolate cake.  And within a couple of weeks, go right back to my old comfy worn-in uniforms.  I watched myself do it again at the beginning of this year.  I had just started to take a closer look at it when my sister's accident happened.  Talk about extreme circumstances.  I really learned a lot about how I handle things!

Pringles.  Pepsi.  Chocolate Malt Balls.  Jack In The Box.  KFC.  Ben & Jerry's.

I held it together for a few weeks after the accident....and even after having the baby with me by myself.  But by the 4th week it was a free for all!  It was all I could do some days to not do laps through the McDonald's drive-thru!

It was going through this experience that really made me see how I respond to stress & crises.  I don't reach for drugs or alcohol.  I reach for food!  And the fewer nutritional content, the more I could eat of it!


So while I was lying in bed hitting the snooze button & resetting my alarm....these little gems of wisdom ran through my head like ticker tape...


TRY SOMETHING  NEW....TRY SOMETHING NEW....TRY SOMETHING NEW ....NEW....NEW....NEW....


For me, at this point in my fitness program, trying something new would be to get up out of bed & go to class....instead of lying there thinking about it.


I think I will also try visualizing myself in the cute clothes that I have in the closet, that way when they do fit, not only will they feel comfortable....but I will feel comfortable in them!!