Everyday Systems: nosdiet: message 1497 of 3212

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Hi Valerie,

I've come up with little systems for some of the other
problems you mentioned, though I'm not sure they're
No-s caliber:

http://everydaysystems.com/group/6

As for not thinking you can, take it a day at a time.
Every day you stick with it you build habits, you
*can* more. 

We're rooting for you. Bug us incessantly with
updates. Whatever happens, I promise you, we're not
going to get tired of hearing about it.

Reinhard

--- Valerie Akers <valakers@...> wrote:

> 
> Well...
> 
> All these reports of success are good for me to
> hear. I have been on a 
> serious binge since Friday. My life is like that
> carnival game where you 
> have a big rubber hammer and about five holes that
> have heads popping out of 
> them. As soon as you bash one head back into its
> hole, another head pops 
> out of another hole. Eventually you are frantically
> whirling this way and 
> that, bashing heads all over the place, yet you
> can't keep them all down...
> 
> My life resembles that game in more ways than one --
> with the problems that 
> keep popping up everywhere, and the addictions that
> keep popping up. They 
> call it changing seats on the titanic when you give
> up one addiction and 
> pick up another. I find that when I cut back on my
> drinking and smoking, I 
> pick up on my eating. When my eating is
> disciplined, my drinking and 
> smoking increase.
> 
> Anyway, I know that's not the focus of this forum,
> so I'll move on. I guess 
> what I really want to say is that I've felt
> miserable ever since I got off 
> track with No S, and I want to get back on track and
> NOT keep going on/off, 
> on/off. That's the defeating the whole purpose of
> this being a lifestyle 
> change and not a 'diet'. Though I guess if it's a
> lifestyle change, it's 
> not something you can go on and off of.
> 
> I don't know. I'm pretty confused at this point. 
> What I DO know is that I 
> liked the way I felt after three weeks of No S, and
> I decidedly DON'T like 
> the way I feel now. My M/O is to usually keep going
> down the path of self 
> destruction until I can't take it anymore. But
> before it gets that bad, I'd 
> like to nip it in the bud and start over. The
> problem is, I don't think I 
> can...
> 
> Valerie