gail's thoughts become things diet journal

[ravae11]

i have taken a new turn in my thin and serene journey. for the past three years i have managed my weight by adhereing to a very structured low carb program and have stayed a size 6-7. and last december i listened to the secret and began that journey.............and now i have started combining the two.

so i'm still doing my low carb program just not as structured. and i am coming to believe that my thoughts have much more to do with my weight/life than i ever could have imagined..........hence i'm intertwining the two.

what i'm working on today is practicing eating less than "I" think my body needs and knowing i'm not going to DIE.

[ravae11]

just ate dinner. waiting the 15 minutes to feel fuller and drinking a large glass of h20. a friend of mine always says when ever i'm questioning something. "what would you rather believe". being i believe "thoughts become things".........i'm going to start believing i enjoy eating light, especially at dinner. .........so tonight i ate a just right light meal..........now inorder to pad my beliefs i am also telling myself..........if i want to eat heavy just wait until morning and i can have a extra at breakfast. gota go talk later

[ravae11]

getting ready to eat. thinking eating light thoughts. and ......what If i really liked to eat light.

it sure felt awesome this morning when i woke up having eaten less than i thought my body needed last night.

for me its all about my thoughts and getting in a place where my thoughts and beliefs match. then staying in a appreciative state of mind so my thoughts and beliefs can become one and and same.

journaling here is really helping me keep my mind clear of counter productive thoughts. because i believe what ever i think about the most become my reality.

[ravae11]

ate another light dinner. and am pleasantly full. what a concept being pleasantly full. instead of stuffed. my body really does not need a lot of food. and as i get older it needs less and less.........and i read lately that eating light is the best fountain of youth a person can find...........and i do like looking young..........getting older is great as long as i dont look my age...............another tool i use to get through the night right now while my beliefs are still somewhat shakey is going to bed early and reading to stay away from the food.

[ravae11]

gave in to an old belief last night after dinner...........i have a getting weaker old belief that wants me to believe "that when i have a food thought, if i dont act on it i will DIE.........GOOD that today in a new day..........for today i will focus on the next best thought and think my way out of this.

[ravae11]

the very very strict program i use to do was greysheet. the plus side to grey sheet was i did not have any food thoughts for almost three years due to greysheet absolute rigidy. the not so plus side to greysheet is that you have to weigh and measure everywhere which is ok when i felt that was the only way i could stay size 6,7........but now that i have started my "the secret" and Law of Attraction journey also. i believe that i can control greysheet and pick and choose which parts i want to use.

last night we went to a christmas party and it was so nice not to have to weigh and measure and i did great in fact i remember thinking the food was not even that exciting other things were more exciting than eating. (what a concept other things were more exciting) .........i will get to the point where everything is more exciting lots of times i'm there now.

on the way home i wanted to stop and get diet hot chocolate, even knowing i would most likely drink three or four packages if not all of them. ......the "i'm going to die if i dont act on my food thoughts" belief is loosening its grip on me.........because right after that thought came a thought of you dont have to do that........and i didn't

[ravae11]

looking for a place to talk about intertwining my weightloss journey with what i'm learning about the LOA via Abraham

old me.........i have struggled with weight for most of my life. joined Overeater Anonymous 21 years ago i'm 54 now and have had quite a bit of success, 2 1/2 years ago i joined greysheet anon. which is a very structured program you weigh and measure every morsel that goes into you mouth.........i have been able to maintain a size 6,7 for most of that time by adhereing to that program religiously...........last christmas i got involved in the secret and than abraham.....................and have started intertwining what i have believed about me and weightloss and what i am learning via abraham. so at this time i am doing a modified greysheet........because i have strong beliefs that greysheet works for me...............i have not eaten sugar (or my idea of sugar for21 years because i believe i am allergic to sugar......when i eat it i cant quit eating and eating and eating) this is a belief i dont care to mess with because i dont feel i need sugar........... i also don't eat simple carbs,,, breads oatmeal, rice ect.........this is a belief i will work on a little at a time.......

[ravae11]

I have this habit, or compulsion of eating more, more than their beliefs will allow me to assimilate, and so i find myself putting on weight, even though i really want to stay slender. And from time to time, i see someone who is, or I a pair of really hot pair of jeans, or something else i want to wear, so i am stimulated to my awareness of wanting to stay a size 6,7. And yet moment by moment, i am making decisions, when that delicious morsel of food passes before their nose, or an old feeling triggers food thoughts, in that moment, my wanting to eat that delicious morsel, is much greater than my desire to be stay slender, and so my powerful wanting wins. It is easy to move in the direction of wanting.

And so the key regarding dieting, or the releasing of some addiction, is to find a way to stimulate my wanting, moment by moment, so that in those decision making times, my greater wanting will be more obvious to you. ( i have put on my cp as my screen saver a picture of me this summer before i left greysheet in my hottest jeans to stimulate the wanting to stay a size 6,7)

me again.......when i was doing structued greysheet it kept my wanting in check.......but the flip side was i was ruled by weighing a measuring and had to be ultra anal about it inorder to keep the wanting at bay...........now that i have become involved in the LOA...........i'm hoping their is a middle of the road...........where i can still use what i have learned on my greysheet food plan............but will have more wiggle room..........its a kinda scary but exciting journey.

[ravae11]

New Thoughts for me to digest

So if we were standing in your physical shoes the next time we eat anything, especially – oh this can be such a fabulous bridge for you – especially if you are in a place where you are eating something that some part of you is thinking you really shouldn't, where another part is almost driving you to do it:

Stop for just a moment and acknowledge the combining of the foods that's taking place and make this statement to yourself …

"I trust that my body will know what to do in the combining of this food to find value," and sort of take the sting out of the belief that you've picked up along your physical trail.

me again.........was not feeling well at work today so decided to come home.......on the way home i got the thought that some food would make me feel better............i decided to not fight it and just go with it and see what would happen and allow myself the enjoy the journey and food and trust that my body would use the above beliefs...........so i first got some mixed nuts and raisins and ate them as i was eating them i kept thinking if you are going to eat them make friends with them and enjoy them...............then the idea of ice cream entered my mind.............so i thought lets go with it too......so i bought 1.75 quart of no added sugar ice cream and ate about a quart of it allowing myself to to enjoy it and not feel any shame.......kind of thinking of it as an experiment..........thinking if i make friends with my food maybe i wont want to alway continue eating until my stomach hurts............now it is 6 pm and i'm still full..........not wanting any more food and i'm trusting that my body will know what to do in the combining of this food to find value," and sort of take the sting out of the belief that i've picked up along my physical trail........an

[ravae11]

more new thoughts

So here's the bottom line in all this, make friends with your food, whatever it is (or how much) that you are eating. Never eat something in a place of believing you should not eat it. If you are going to eat it, make friends with it first.

me again .........i'm trusting that by doing the above my body will in the future only eat the amount that it needs and not until it hurts so much it cant eat any more...............my thought is when i eat til my stomach hurts a lot its in reaction to how much guilt i am feeling about what i am eating.......thus i can't hear when my body says enough.............

(i will be using this thread to reprogram my beliefs and thinking)

[ravae11]

had an awesome day foodwise and lifewise yesterday.........when ever a food thought entered my mind i was able to pivot by remembering a new thought is only another 17 seconds away.

i'm playing with a head cold which is leaving to go play with its self momentarily..........i had a long history of over eating when i dont feel well. ..........so my mind tried to turn to food thoughts numerous times yesterday but again i remembered you can continue this thought for another 17 seconds and manifest a binging monster or you can grab another thought and entertain it for only 17 seconds before it starts to turn your thinking and hence my vibration to a higher level...............i also escaped into 2 or was it 3 movies yesterday to keep my thoughts off food and the head cold playing with me

[ravae11]

Its best for me to have a food plan, so my food plan is…….. 3 meals a day and 1 snack. I also do moderate carbs and no sugar. I have to take actions I can believe in and I believe that by adhering to this plan I can maintain my size 6,7 and easily fit into my hottest jeans. This has worked in the past for me and I know it will work in the future. My job is to use LOA to help me adhere to what I know works. In the past have consider myself a food addict. I’m not ready to let go of that label yet but I no longer believe that I will have to wear it for the rest of my life.

When I start to obsess about food between meals or want to continue a meal that is over………. what it is telling me is, I have disconnect from source/my god, thus lowering my vibrations. So my job is to experiment with different way of reconnecting with source and raising my vibrations.


I can meditate (one of my favorite forms is mindful breathing) and reconnect, or I can quiet my mind, or I can appreciate and reconnect, or I can choose one of the hundreds of pleasant images that I’ve been practicing that I keep in my pocket. I get one of them out and roll it around in my mind, this will adjust my vibration. Remembering I have total power over my vibrations. Remembering that "Nothing is more important than that I feel good."

And if I do decide to turn to the food I will remember there are no wrong decisions. No matter what choice I make moment by moment I will eventually get to where I want to be just because that is my desire. All I have to do is start complimenting myself on my decision and in that moment, I immediately come back into vibrational alignment with source/my god.

[ravae11]

What I’m beginning to understand is that my body is like a chemical factory, that has the ability to extract from what I eat what it wants and needs. My body has a spectacular ability to compensate. In other words physicians and scientist haven't even begun to explore the chemistry that goes on in the digestive system of my human body. What scientists are not even close to understanding is that chemistry is so much more effected by my vibrations/(how I am feeling inside) than it is by what I am eating that it makes what I am eating close to irrelevant. Here’s sort of an analogy that helped me understand and believe this new thinking I have started to embrace.

Let’s say I am taking driving lessons every single day so I can become a really proficient driver of my car. And that is all well and good but if I am not in a good mood (have a lack of good thoughts in my mind) I ought not to be driving. In other words, all the skill in the world is not going to necessarily put me in the place of being sensitive to what's happening out there in traffic. I know this one to be true because as I look back (hindsight is 20/20) I can see that this concept caused my last wreck. At the time I blamed it on weather conditions but I drive in those weather conditions all the time. What the real problem was ……….is my mind was devoid of good thoughts……hence causing me to make a choice I would not have made if I had of been entertaining better thoughts. For me I use to think it was all up to good luck now I know its all up to good thoughts/thoughts that make me feel good.

Therefore, being tuned in, tapped in, turned on, more intuitive, and more in alignment with my god is only a better thought away. For me, it’s all about reaching for the better thought for all my dreams to come true……..including the one I have of staying a size 6,7!!! Because when I am tuned in, tapped in, turned on, I make better choices and if I do make a choice that society thinks is not a good choice ………….my factory just works better at taking what it need out of what I ate..

Society tells me I had better not eat this and this and this so I deprive my self of it or feel bad if I chose to eat it. Feeling bad makes my food factory not work as efficiently thus, not receiving the benefits it could be from what I am eating.

So here's the bottom line for me, in all this, I need to make friends with my food, whatever I chose to eat. I need to never eat something in a place of believing I should not be eating it. If I am going to eat it, I need to make friends with it first.

What I find happening now that I have changed my thinking is my body seems to be acquiring a louder voice in telling me what she wants me to eat. And my body has always know what she wants to eat, I would just overrule it with my mind……that was usually infested with not so great thoughts…..thus leading me to want to eat and eat and eat.

[ravae11]

from abraham/hicks

For me if overeating keeps looking like relief, then what must be happening is i must be continuing to turn back the other way(thinking thoughts that take me upstream. In other words, i can see overeating looking like relief once in a while, but if it keeps being the thing that is relief, it means: that i have let my mind become consumed with upstream/negative thoughts again.

i find this very exciting because its immediate feed back........ when i think about food that i have accidently turned upstream again.. so its just my downstream allert

When this happens its simple for me to fix.........i just remember that it only take 17 seconds of me thinking a good feeling thought before another good feeling thought magically connects to it turning me downstream again and away from food thoughts.

[ravae11]

Thinking myself thin
We are discovering that our brain is cybernetic in nature, which means that it is literally like a computer, waiting for a program to be installed.

Here's the kicker the subconscious is completely neutral and impartial — it will carry out any instructions you give it.

Unfortunately, many of us are still running negative programs we picked up from others as children when our non-conscious minds were totally open and impressionable, or which we developed over the years as a result of repetition of our own negative thinking. Many of these programs that literally running and ruining our lives we do not even know about.

As it turns out, our own thoughts, repeated daily, are one of the primary ways that our "mental computer" is programmed on a sub-conscious level, which is the level of beliefs, habits and automatic behavior.

To change my results, i must overwrite old negative programming and install positive new programming into my subconscious.

A main way I'm using right now is positive affirmations. I know many pooh pooh the use of positive affirmations but i figure I'm doing affirmations no matter what every minute. Hence I can either do them consciously which would be positive ones that would lead me in the direction I desire to go, or unconsciously which would most likely be negative ones which will at best leave me where I stand now.

I have chosen two weight ones for now, they are

Its almost always easy for me to stop eating. (I say almost because research show the more I believe what I’m saying the faster it will become “MY NEW TRUTH”) and my second one is..

It’s usually easy for me to control what I eat.

Some of the times I say them are

Looking in the mirror in the bathroom as I wash my hands

Before I fall asleep…….because research shows what ever I think about as I fall asleep my mind plays with it while I sleep. (believe me I’m becoming very aware of what thoughts I’m allowing my mind to entertain as I fall a sleep now.)

I also sing them.

Its suggest I change to new ones every two weeks.

I have only been doing this consciously a few days and already feel a shift inside me.

[ravae11]

finished dinner last night then went in to watch tv and fell asleep when i woke up.........food/eating was on my mind..........so i went into the kitchen and started slicing cheese and eating it and thinking about what i could eat next..........then i remembered i'm in contol of my thoughts,17seconds at a time.......so i started thinking about going to bed (it helped that i knew from reading so much ABE that a counter thought was only 17 seconds away) until it became my dominate thought.......and went to bed and had a wonder nights sleep because my stomach was not stuff from a binge (me doing the skinny dance)


moral........its powerful to know that all i have to do is hold a thought for a mere 17 seconds for it to become my dominate thought

[ravae11]

abe Quote

Is this pill really an effective pill? Is this process really an effective process?" Anything that causes you to allow what you desire is the process of coming into alignment. And so, we're not, in any way, validating or invalidating anything. Many offer their "dog and pony show" as being the one that works. And good for all of them. We applaud anything that assists someone in allowing the Well-being, that they so much want and deserve, to flow.

I have been using this concept the last two days in my staying tiny journey.

i have notice that breakfast and lunch are very easy for me to stay in alignment with on most days...........so what i have been doing for dinner these last two days is plan ahead what i'm going to eat,,, one day i even got it ready in the morning so i would be in alignment with eating it and only it when it came time for dinner. the other day i wrote down what i was going to have for dinner so i would not have to think about food because it was already a done deal. i call this padding my beliefs and to me that is what the above Law of Attraction (which moderate carbs and the Law of Attraction are my food plan) quote is all about.

me dancing about how perfect my food has been and how happy that makes me. and for me being and staying happy is what its all about.

i also have been paying close attention to what i go to bed thinking about because there is strong research to back that what ever you go to sleep thinking about you mind play with all night long. And being i believe thoughts become my life. i only want to take into slumber land things that will help my stay a tiny person.

[ravae11]

beings i believe my success in my staying thin journey is all a staying happy/positive inside job............ i have made up a fun fun fun (did i say fun) food plan.......which i started day before yesterday. and i am having a blast with it.

ok its kind of like deal a meal.

veggies are free

three fats (for me each fat is one ounce)

four fruits ( thats one whole fruit or 8 ounces which ever get me more)

18 proteins and dairy (yogurt is two for one and skim milk is one for four...........other wise its four ounces equil one)

the fun fun fun part is........ i use them how ever i want through out the day...... i like to live in the biggest food playpen i can without being able to get in the street and get run over by the "scales"............this is really fun for me and the more fun i am having the easier the my food game is to play and win.

in fact the other night i had lots of proteins/dairy left at the end of the day and was able to fit in 1/2 carton of sugar free ice cream and enjoyed every bit and did not feel one ounce of guilt.....because it fit into my plan. (me dancing the happy guilt free icecream dance)

the cool thing is being i stay so happy inside i did not feel like doing it again the next day or the next............so for me as long as i stay happy inside food event do not chain together like they use to when i was not happy inside. (me singing the happiness song)

[ravae11]

i have a new obsession warm water with lemon juice and flavored stevia. im so excited that i love this positive new drink.

Benefits of warm lemon water for me are

Warm lemon water serves as the perfect good morning drink (i drink it all day long), as it aids the digestive system and makes the process of eliminating the waste products from the body easier. It ensures smooth bowel functions.

Lemon is a vitamin C rich citrus fruit that enhances your beauty,(what woman does not want to be more beautiful) by rejuvenating skin from within and thus bringing a glow on your face. One of the major health benefits of drinking lemon water is that it paves way for losing weight faster,( me dancing the skinny lemon dance) thus acting as a great weight loss remedy. Lemon water flushes out body toxins and thus is extremely beneficial for the body.

it also helps promote your immune system and thus, protects you from the clutches of most types of infections. It also plays the role of blood purifier.

all that definitely makes me feel positive and i love the taste especially with the stevia sweetner added

which the bennies of stevia are it lowers elevated blood pressure (hypertension), digestive aid that also reduces gas and stomach acidity, and for obesity. The herb acts as general tonic which increases energy levels and mental acuity. (and who wouldn't want to have more energy and always remember everything)
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[ravae11]

thought i would catch you up on my journey since my last post

i was on a plan called greysheet for about 2.5 years . then i decided to move
sideways from greysheet. (i'm very into the "law of attraction LOA" and wanted
to believe that would be enough and it was for keeping the weight off but not for
the magic) i did a modified greysheet play for about 5 months and was able to
stay at my greysheet weight.......but i thought of food constantly and the
magic was gone.

about two month ago out of the blue i got the "inspired action" to get a sponsor and
jump back on greysheet:

.

it was possible for me to stay small without greysheet (might have worked
forever maybe not i will never know) but ..........................it was a lot
of
work and no magic.

what brought me back to greysheet was not putting on weight for i havent
but...........an aha moment i had...... that said why are you wasting energy and
thoughts (that could be better spend elsewhere) keeping your food in order.
when greysheet can and will do that for you

i love being back on greysheet i believe my side journey was necessary
because now i have no doubt that this is where i belong............so now i
can relax and enjoy the greysheet magic and use all the energy i was using to
manage my food to attract all the other things i want into my
life (me dancing the life is great dance)..............life is so good to me.

thoughts become things and the happier i am the happier i am


i went off because of my new belief in the Law of Attraction and i came back
on for the same reason........because i believe in order to realize my dreams
i need to keep my mind as happy and unclutter as i can and greysheet does that
for me better than anything i have ever known.

now i will be using the LOA to ehance my greysheet journey and
greysheet to enhance my LOA journey