Today’s touchstone is ‘I‘. This is the one where you have to change your way of thinking about yourself and about your eating program. So lets call ‘I’ image short for Self-Image.
What is your image of yourself? Do you feel like you are a failure? Do you feel like you cannot do anything right? Or tell yourself that even if you feel you can? Do you feel undeserving or unappreciated or unwanted?
I am here to tell you – you were made to be healthy and fit – therefore you deserve to be healthy and fit.
Who benefits if you become more healthy and fit? YOU. Who pays the penalty if you don’t? Again, the answer is YOU. So you have to start your journey for YOU, not anyone else. If you are overweight, you can become healthier by losing just 10% of your body weight. Check out the post Why Should Baby Boomers Lose Weight. There are a multitude of health conditions you can avoid or delay just by losing 10% of your body weight. This is motivation you can hang on to, no matter how you feel about yourself.
Let’s look at a person, Sally, as ‘ME’ ‘MYSELF’ and ‘I’. Let’s say ‘I’ is the standard keeper. ‘I’ watches to see that ‘ME’ does everything ‘right’. ‘I’ will tell ‘ME’ every time something happens that it is ‘ME’s’ fault. ‘I’ will tell ‘ME’ that ‘ME’ is lazy, dumb, ugly, clumsy, and responsible for everything. ‘I’ will badger and bad mouth ‘ME’ at any given moment because ‘ME’ is not perfect. Poor ‘ME’ is beaten down and sad. ‘ME’ is depressed. ‘ME’ is rebellious because ‘ME’ does not believe ‘ME’ is a bad person. ‘ME’ feels that ‘ME’ deserves good and deserves rewards once in a while.
In the diet, ‘I’ says: ‘ME’ - Sally can’t eat that apple pie Sally loves, never ever. ‘ME’ sits and wants that apple pie. ‘ME’ tries to be good, but keeps thinking about that apple pie. Finally ‘ME’ thinks – I don’t care what ‘I’ says, I want that apple pie and I am going to eat it. And ‘ME’ does – the whole pie.
In comes ‘MYSELF’ . Have ‘MYSELF’ mediate between ‘I’ and ‘ME’ . Let ‘MYSELF’ tell ‘I’ and ‘ME’ that they are really both wanting the best for Sally. They are just at odds. Get ‘I’ to realize that ‘I’ is hurting Sally when ‘I’ badgers ‘ME’ and that ‘I’ needs to be nice to ‘ME’. Get ‘ME’ to see that ‘I’ only wants what is best for Sally, just like ‘ME’ does. Have ‘MYSELF’ convince ‘I’ and ‘ME’ to work as a team, building each other up, not fighting. ‘MYSELF’ can get ‘ME’ and ‘I’ to compromise, to let Sally eat a small piece of apple pie – maybe have Sally do 10 minutes more on her aerobics that day to offset it.
Bottom lines, ladies be kind to yourself, give yourself a break, and always remember (and remind yourself at least once a day):
“I DESERVE TO BE A SLIMMER, HEALTHIER ME.”
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