This is a journal to help me learn LC tactics and to record LC success as 2007 draws to an end and 2008 looms large and hopeful ahead of me.

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Ah, luck is the residue of design.

Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.

Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!

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2009...putting all my LC skills into action!

Posted 01-15-2009 at 07:03 AM by Zer
Updated 01-15-2009 at 07:09 AM by Zer

Two weeks into 2009, I am keen to celebrate how many of my LC skills seem more readily available to me than in past years. I have both Atkins books - Atkins72 and DANDR - handy to refer to and I am following threads at LC Friends that offer warm support as I work hard at bringing LC skills to the fore to replace dysfunctional habits from carbier years!

Best threads for me? Deb's 300+ Support, Ilpirata's BMR and the Alternate-Day (UD/DD) plan. Several others too, but these are my daily support threads. Wonderful support!

Most noteworthy event of 2008 was acquiring a scale and overcoming my fear of data offered by a scale. It's just data. Collecting data helps me tweak my LC plan to find what works with my own body's rhythm.
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432.4#(2/8/08; got a talking scale)
[color=fuchsia]Feb:-5#[/color] [color=aqua]March:-13#[/color] [color=purple]April:-5.8#[/color] [color=blue]May:-6#[/color] [color=red]June:-6#[/color] [color=lime]July -5.8#[/color] [color=red]Aug:+6? WHOA![/color]
[color=firebrick]Sept:-2.6#[/color] [color=aqua]Oct:-15#[/color] [color=dodgerblue]Nov:-2#[/color] [color=chartreuse]Dec:+2.6#[/color] ...377.4(12/1) 380(12/31)
[color=aqua]Jan:+2.4#:[/color] 382.4(1/12/09)
Interim goals: [color=gray]432.4 430 420 410 399 390 380 [/color]

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Just updated my Weight Loss Journal for 2009 and found a remarkable and inspirational posting that relates to being careful who we invite into our life. Fits in with some recent writing I've done about relationship work I need to do, based on tapes and notes from a speaker I saw at a conferences ages ago and find useful when I am working on centering myself: Terry Gorski lays it out plain enough for this Aspie to believe that I can work out a support group of my own, in real life, that will help me grow and become more than I am today!

Ready? Here's what got me fired up today!

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Posted 01-13-2009 by skeeweeaka

EVERYONE CAN'T BE IN YOUR FRONT ROW

Life is a theater so invite your audiences carefully.
Not everyone is holy enough and healthy enough
to have a FRONT ROW seat in our lives.

There are some people in your life
that need to be loved from a distance.

It's amazing what you can accomplish
when you let go, or at least minimize
your time with draining, negative, incompatible,
not-going-anywhere relationships, friendships,
fellowships, and family!

EVERYONE CAN'T BE IN YOUR FRONT ROW!

Observe the relationships around you.
Pay attention to :
Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill
and which ones are just going downhill?

When you leave certain people,
do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama?
Which ones don't really understand,
know or appreciate you
and the gift that lies within you?

EVERYONE CAN'T BE IN YOUR FRONT ROW!

The more you seek GOD
and the things of GOD,
the more you seek quality.
The more you seek
not just the hand of GOD
but the face of GOD,
the more you seek things honorable.
The more you seek growth, peace of mind,
love and truth around you,
the easier it will become
for you to decide
who gets to sit in the FRONT ROW
and who should be moved
to the balcony of your life.

EVERYONE CAN'T BE IN THE FRONT ROW!

You cannot change the people around you
...but you can change the people you are around!
Ask GOD for wisdom and discernment
and choose wisely
the people who sit in the FRONT ROW of your life.

Remember that FRONT ROW seats
are for special and deserving people and
those who sit in your FRONT ROW
should be chosen carefully.

EVERYONE CAN'T BE IN YOUR FRONT ROW!

What a wonderfully timely posting for me, as I wrestle with releasing some toxic contacts and limiting some that seem to drain me of energy that I need for my own life!

No author is indicated, I'm sorry to say, so I googled to find if there is any author to give thanks to. Found this slightly modified version, probably just edited to fit this person's particular viewpoint, but I offer it here for what it's worth:

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Everyone Can't Be In The Front Row
By Dr. Jim Dubel [publishing on a chiropractic website]

Life is a theater. Invite your audience carefully.

Not everyone is healthy enough
to have a front row seat in our lives.
There are some people in your life
that need to be loved from a distance.
It's amazing what you can accomplish
when you let go, or at least minimize,
your time with draining, negative,
incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships / friendships.

Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention.
Which ones lift and which ones lean?
Which ones encourage and which ones discourage?
Which ones are on a path of growth uphill
and which ones are going downhill?
When you leave certain people,
do you feel better or feel worse?
Which ones always have drama,
or don't really understand, know or appreciate you?

The more you seek quality, respect, growth,
peace of mind, love and truth around you,
the easier it will become for you to decide
who gets to sit in the front row
and who should be moved
to the balcony of your life.

You cannot change the people around you.
But you can change the people you are around.

As a wise man points out in a thought-provoking film (The Holiday), we owe it to ourself to be the star of our own life - not a trivial role, but the star, the leading character, the principal player. How many of us are standing aside while someone else is the star in our own life? How many of us accept 2d billing in a life that deserves to show our own name in lights, brilliant lights, dazzling lights? Am I the only one here? Probably not.

Posted 01-15-2009 at 07:45 AM by Zer Zer is offline

Updated 01-15-2009 at 07:46 AM by Zer

	Good articles, good ideas, good way to focus on what works instead of dwelling on slow loss. Top 10 Reasons Why Low Carb Dieters Can Get Fatter and Fatter Top Ten Low Carb Mistakes Common Problems and How to Correct Them Weight of the Evidence: Low-Carb Menu Planning Made Easy
	Posted 01-22-2009 at 10:07 AM by Zer

Now here's a LC tactic that I'd like to add to my array of tools for managing carby cravings!

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The following is from Dr. Michael Eades' Blog. It's a VERY good read.

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Back in the early 1980s a psychiatrist, William Glasser, M.D., wrote a book titled Take Effective Control of Your Life that I read at the time and thought to be one of the more insightful books I had ever read. The paperback version of that same book appeared a couple of years later under the title Control Theory. Both editions are now out of print but pre-owned copies can be had for pennies.... This is a book well worth reading. And not just for dietary help.

Dr. Glasser explains that all behavior has four components. He doesn’t explain these in dietary terms, but I will.
1. the physiological component
2. the feeling component
3. the thinking component
4. the doing component

We don’t have any control over the first two and only partial control over the third. But we have total control over the fourth, the doing component.

Let’s look at how this all works with food.

Imagine you’re sitting in your office minding your own business when a co-worker comes in with a box of fresh, hot donuts, sticks the box in your face and says, ‘Have one.’ What happens?

First, your physiology kicks in. Your pancreas says, uh oh, here comes some sugar. Better get a little insulin cranked out to get ready for it. You get a spurt of insulin and your blood sugar starts to fall.

Then, as your blood sugar falls, you start to feel hungry. And your stomach starts to churn as it gets ready. This is the feeling component. And you have no control over this. It all happens and it is totally beyond your control.

Then you think about how good a donut would taste. And you imagine it. And you say to yourself, hey, it’s only one. What could it hurt? This is the thinking component, and you do have some control over it. But with the physiology and feeling components hard at work, it’s difficult not to think about the donuts. Difficult, but not impossible.

And all the above happens in just a few seconds.

Then you grab a donut and eat it.

The doing component. You have complete control over this component.

You choose to eat the donut. All the other components are ragging on you and you cave. And you say you had no control, but you really did. If someone had told you they were going to shoot you if you ate one of the donuts, you wouldn’t have eaten it. All the other three components (at least the first two) would have been acting the same, but you wouldn’t touch the donuts. You can control the doing component if you want to. Problem is the other three components gang up on you, trying to disable your will.

But, this can all the dealt with.

Dr. Glasser realized that the physiology to feeling to thinking to doing progression could be reversed. Since you have complete control over only the doing component, you’ve got to do something. And once you do, you can foil the progression. Because if you take different action, you can drive the progression the other way.

If you get up from your desk and say, No thanks, then leave your office and go involve yourself with something else all the components start to fall in line. Once you start doing something different, you start thinking about it, then your feelings of hunger go away and soon even your physiology falls into line. Your liver produces glucose to make up for that the little spurt of insulin knocked down, and soon you’re back to normal. And it doesn’t take all that long.

So, basically, we can be driven by a progression over which we have no control to abdicate the one thing we do have control over, our actual active doing. Or we can use our ability to do something to reverse control all the components that we don’t have direct control over.

Realizing that I had this ability to control the seemingly uncontrollable made a huge difference in my life years ago and continues to do so today. Knowing that I can control virtually any behavior, but especially my dietary behavior, by simply focusing my attention and effort onto a task or other activity has kept me on the straight and narrow multiple times when strong temptation fell in my path.

If the high-carb demon is goading you to go face down, telling you that you have uncontrollable cravings, just force yourself to go do something else. Soon the cravings will be gone.

It takes a little practice, but it helps to repeat the mantra:
I have 100 percent control
of what goes in my mouth.

Take the advice of Dr. Glasser.

Start worrying less over those things you can’t control and accept that you have no control over them. And take back control of the things you can. If you do so, you will be a much happier person. And a much thinner person.

Anyone else think that this might work for you too as a way of gaining control of the urge to splurge when carbage is within reach? I sure do! Take action to distract focus from carbage - and the action itself will work to derail the kneejerk response to temptation! TAKE ACTION! It's worth a try!

Posted 01-24-2009 at 02:01 AM by Zer Zer is offline

Spirit crushed. Struggling to do daily what must be done. Difficult, with spirit so bruised. I found the following advice useful, from a thread at LCFriends admonishing us to be gentle with our own self as we live day by day.

Quote:

...gently close the door on yesterday and throw the key away. It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad, but rather regret over yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who would rob us of today.

"Relish the moment" is a good motto,
especially when coupled with Psalm 118:24,
"This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it."

So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, swim more rivers, climb more mountains, kiss more babies, count more stars. Laugh more and cry less. Go barefoot oftener. Eat more ice cream. Ride more merry-go-rounds. Watch more sunsets. Life must be lived as we go along....
Excerpt from "The Station" by Robert J. Hastings, Th.D. (1924-1997)

Hope these words lift your spirit, as they do my own. Truly it is journey - and not the destination - that must give us what we need daily to survive, to thrive.
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432.4#(2/8/08; got a talking scale)
[color=fuchsia]Feb:-5#[/color] [color=aqua]March:-13#[/color] [color=purple]April:-5.8#[/color] [color=blue]May:-6#[/color] [color=red]June:-6#[/color] [color=lime]July -5.8#[/color] [color=red]Aug:+6? WHOA![/color]
[color=firebrick]Sept:-2.6#[/color] [color=aqua]Oct:-15#[/color] [color=dodgerblue]Nov:-2#[/color] [color=chartreuse]Dec:+2.6#[/color] ...377.4(12/1) 380(12/31)
[color=aqua]Jan:+0.0#:[/color] 382.4(1/12/09) 384.2(1/20) 380.0(1/31)
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Posted 02-05-2009 at 07:35 AM by Zer Zer is offline

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