If at first you don't succeed, try and try again...and again...and again...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
What's the message?
I'm at it again. I have finally gotten back on a healthy eating routine. No more junk. No extra sugar. No bread. Very little alcohol. A diet of lean meat, vegetables, fruits and whole grains. And lots of water. And so far, a little bit of exercise. Things have been going great so far. I love my new way of eating. I am not missing the junk at all. I have been cooking new recipes and have actually been enjoying them. In 4 weeks, I have lost 10lbs. Hopefully 10lbs. I will never see again. I was feeling good about what I was doing...but something has changed. According to my boyfriend, what I am doing is not good enough. It's okay...but it could be better. Slam! That's like a kick in the gut for me. The perfect way to sabotage my efforts. It's almost like an oxymoron. All I want is to be good enough...and it turns out...I'm never going to be. Nothing I do,is ever going to be good enough. For someone. So how do I accept that it's good enough for me? How do I get myself to believe and feel that I am not doing this for anyone else? I am doing it for me. I have had success with weight loss before. I went from 200lbs. to 150lbs within a year. I remember that my boyfriend at the time never said a word. Didn't say " good for you, or your looking great, or I'm proud of you". You could say, it's because he loved me no matter how I looked, but I know that's not the case. When we split up, he blamed my 'being too fat' as one of the reasons we never had sex. So, I was unappealing to him, yet he had nothing to say to me when I made an effort to change. It didn't take me long to start eating again and gain it all back. I know I am relying on other people's reassurance way too much. It shouldn't matter what anybody else thinks, but apparantly it does. Because it hurts me when I don't hear what I want to hear. I am starting to realize that I am not doing this for myself. I am doing this to make someone like me better. I feel like an 8 year old, trapped in a saggy 35 year old body. I don't want to eat an apple in front of my boyfriend. An apple has too many carbs. I should be eating more protein. Since when has an apple for a snack become a bad choice? I have always had this fear in the back of my mind, that when I finally lose all the extra weight that I have carried around my whole life, that nothing will change. I am not actually going to feel any better, because it's really not about what's on the outside. I don't think I have to lose another lb. to figure that out. I think I just got it. It is true. In my mind, I am never going to get it right...and I will never be good enough.
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I think you're great, Renee. We all go struggle with our inner demons. It's true though, you are the one you need to be loved by and then maybe things will start to make more sense. By no stretch of the imagination am I there, but I hope along side one another, as friends we can give love, support and a helping hand.
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