Billie
03-24-2006, 06:58 AM
"Mans mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions."
*Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we started PP many of us had to dump our thinking our old thoughts about food pyramid, low fat, no resistance only cardio, transfats, whatever our particular old thoughts were. It was a process for me, it wasn't something I did in a week or even a month it seems.
It also took some time to understand the concepts of it, to really want to understand the concepts might be a better way to say it, rather than just wanting to lose weight for the sake of shedding the pounds I wanted to understand how and why my body works and reacted.
Changing our thinking is one of the hardest things we have to do--and what does it mean for health, everything. We can't change what we do, what we eat unless we change how we think about it all.
Yesterday I had abourt 15 minutes for lunch and hadn't brought anything with me (bad!) from home. My colleagues went down to a local little greasy spoon and said they would bring me back something. I got an Italian beef, no french fries. We sat down together and I am pulling out the beef, without even thinking of it and literally stuffing my face with the beef and no bread, my 15 minutes at that point turned into about 5.
All of a sudden one of them noticed how they were eating and how I was and looked at their plates, fries, one of them got a double order, cold slaw, brownies and I was feeling guilty for not being planned and having time to have a nice lunch, because certainly my meal was not my A game either but you know with the time constraint I had it was just pure habit of eating the protein at least.
Of course they were saying Bilile you are not eating enough and I wasn't eating garbage either.
Habits are hard to learn, new thinking is hard to do, but once there the automoatic pilot can take over. We just need to make sure those things learned are the best options!
Have a great TGIF!
original dimensions."
*Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we started PP many of us had to dump our thinking our old thoughts about food pyramid, low fat, no resistance only cardio, transfats, whatever our particular old thoughts were. It was a process for me, it wasn't something I did in a week or even a month it seems.
It also took some time to understand the concepts of it, to really want to understand the concepts might be a better way to say it, rather than just wanting to lose weight for the sake of shedding the pounds I wanted to understand how and why my body works and reacted.
Changing our thinking is one of the hardest things we have to do--and what does it mean for health, everything. We can't change what we do, what we eat unless we change how we think about it all.
Yesterday I had abourt 15 minutes for lunch and hadn't brought anything with me (bad!) from home. My colleagues went down to a local little greasy spoon and said they would bring me back something. I got an Italian beef, no french fries. We sat down together and I am pulling out the beef, without even thinking of it and literally stuffing my face with the beef and no bread, my 15 minutes at that point turned into about 5.
All of a sudden one of them noticed how they were eating and how I was and looked at their plates, fries, one of them got a double order, cold slaw, brownies and I was feeling guilty for not being planned and having time to have a nice lunch, because certainly my meal was not my A game either but you know with the time constraint I had it was just pure habit of eating the protein at least.
Of course they were saying Bilile you are not eating enough and I wasn't eating garbage either.
Habits are hard to learn, new thinking is hard to do, but once there the automoatic pilot can take over. We just need to make sure those things learned are the best options!
Have a great TGIF!