Failure only becomes a failure when you quit and give up. Until then a failure is just a temporary setback.
Shopping for Diets:
(The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet – Dr. Rachel F. Heller / Dr. Richard F. Heller)
“The standard diets do not work for carbohydrate addicts --- and carbohydrate addicts blame themselves. We have now come to understand that they have been trying to follow diets that are simply not suited to their physical needs.
When you are shopping for shoes, you do not buy just any pair. If the salesperson brings you a pair of shoes that does not fit, you do not blame yourself, do you. Maybe they are too small, too large or too narrow.
Say a friend or relative brings you a pair of shoes and they do not fit either. You will not try to wear them any way; you will find a pair that suits you. Right?
The same is true with eyeglasses, medical prescriptions, top hats, and false teeth. They are right for you or not. Period. You accept that.
However, diets are different. With diets, most of us forget common sense. We pick a diet at random, giving little thought to our needs, our preferences, our strengths, our weaknesses, or specific metabolic levels. We take what may (or may not) be appropriate for someone else, and assume that it should be correct for us. We do not look at what we need.
Then we blame ourselves when, in the long run, it does not work. The diet that fails us is interpreted as our own failure.
Maybe, just maybe, that is because it was not an appropriate plan in the first place.
And the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet just might be”.
The above is so true. I cannot tell you how many different programs I have tried. I have mentioned many throughout this blog, but there are so many more. I really like the Fat to Skinny program because it works for my lifestyle and me. I believe that The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet is also a fine plan. I can see that it would also work for me, albeit slower than the Fat to Skinny.
This week has been a mixture of successes and setbacks. It has been a mixture of positive and negative experiences and a week full of stress. I have tried to maintain a positive attitude throughout the week. I had a friend tell me that a co-worker “went-off” on her about my weight loss. He thinks that it is no big deal. He went on, that anyone could lose weight with multiple surgeries. Adding, that even with the weight loss he (speaking of me) is still really fat and would you want to be around someone that got as fat as he did?
This does not really bother me too much. I did not even ask for the name of the person that said it, because it does not matter. Prejudice and cruelty are something an obese person becomes really well acquainted with. I would like to know where he heard I received “multiple surgeries”, when it is “one surgery” and a failed attempt at that. Mostly, I am just concerned why people are wasting their valuable time talking about me and why people like to bring down others. If we reverse the roles, I believe I would be the one leading the cheering for him to succeed. This world has far too many critics and far too few cheerleaders.
This weekend we attended a party to celebrate the upcoming marriage of my nephew-in-law and many in-laws were shocked when they saw me for the first time in a while. The most common phrase I hear from people these days is, “Hey Skinny, look at you”. Of course, I am not skinny, but compared to over 430 pounds it is a long way. I like hearing this new phrase, because it is replacing the phrase I hear most often. Usually, when I am in public the phrase I hear most often is, “Are you HIS father”. Of course, I am speaking of my beautiful, handsome and full of life son. I learned long ago that it is far more pleasant if I answer this phrase with the following. “No, I am a neighbor, but the blond-haired lady over there is his mother”. :-)
"You have failed only when you quit trying. Until then, you're still in the act of progression. So, never quit trying and you'll never be a failure.---Tommy Kelley
"My life tomorrow will be the result of my attitudes and the choices I make today." ---Author Unknown
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