Life is Not a Box of Chocolates

Posted by Theresa on February 19, 2012 3 comments
This year on Valentine's Day, I was never tempted to indulge in (a box of) chocolates. It is through this program that I feel this way, because on my own, my life was like a box of chocolates.
Home made Valentine from one of my good friends.
Yes, those home-made sweets at the office called my name a few times. This program helps silence those voices. Besides, I had something better coming my way and I waited in anticipation for it to arrive at my house: a home-made Valentine card. During a recent vacation with an old friend, I talked about my new gadget that makes foamy milk for my coffee; hence the made-just-for-me Valentine.

Turning down those sweets at the office wasn't hard. There was no temptation or feelings of deprivation. This is the results of working this program with Julie. I knew if I was struggling, I was off-program; Julie takes the hard away. I wrote about this in yesterday's post.

While I contemplated over the hard time I was having, I discovered a key concept:
hard time = off-program
While it took some time to realize this, I never lost sight of the fact that there is an incredibly long list of foods I no longer have issues with because of this program.

Thanks VP and Karen, for your words of encouragement and suggestions about how to move forward. VP indicated she has had no issues with the foods I cannot have on Julie's program (I just don't have them in the house, and most of the time not have them when I eat out). This is true for me as well. Somehow I created a whole new list of problematic foods that never used to be an issue for me. Who knew I'd ever over-eat yogurt? Or crave dried green beans?

The plan I made last night aligns with Karen's suggestion, and it is exactly what I started today:  "only protein" for one of your meals for 3 days.

With February coming to an end, I want to acknowledge how sweet it is that my life is not driven by a sweet tooth.

Nothing sweet to the lips, Julie tells us, as her finger brushes across her lips to reinforce her message.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous2/19/2012

    Hi, April here again - I also have had some struggles periodically, however, I now eat as I did when I originally started this journey. I only ate once a day (that was the only time I was hungry). I did really well despite people (even in the program who said that was not right) - everyone except Julie who reiterated to only eat when hungry and since I was only truly hungry just once a day - that's when I ate. I then started to eat more because my husband was still pretty much eating at normal times and I found my progress slowing down. So now I'm back to basically once a day which works for me. I kind of chuckled when I read only meat for one of your meals for 3 days, since I only eat one meal, but whatever works. Also, just curious, a friend of mine said that Julie never explained about the Navy and Marines in her class. Julie mentioned them at our first meeting, but never again after that either. Does anyone remember if she ever went into details about the Navy (water leaving the body), or the Marines (the liver).
    The Airforce and the Army got all the attention and I don't know if she just forgot to tell about the other 2, or if there was nothing to tell. Great hearing everyone's experiences.

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  2. Wendy2/23/2012

    Sorry, April. I don't remember anything about that specifically. I just remember Army.

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  3. Karen2/26/2012

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