tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post268060117956268272..comments2023-09-29T04:55:41.715-06:00Comments on A Deliberate Life: What is your biggest weak spot?Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13708815560712267698noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-31618088218203283302010-04-24T19:43:34.903-06:002010-04-24T19:43:34.903-06:00Chris,
I can't believe I'm days late on th...Chris,<br />I can't believe I'm days late on this post. Glad I didn't miss it completely!<br /><br />Well, with this one post I think you've completely worked a 12-step program for weight! Truly amazing insights about going deeper and deeper, working out resentments and getting to the point of forgiveness. It's pretty powerful stuff.<br /><br />Thanks.Linda Pressmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01809808676659629555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-22658479534555070132010-04-22T19:57:09.302-06:002010-04-22T19:57:09.302-06:00Thank you Chris, for helping us through this! To k...Thank you Chris, for helping us through this! To know you've been there and got through it, makes me feel so much less alone!Sandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06168557942123424708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-28605180333535541032010-04-22T17:52:11.796-06:002010-04-22T17:52:11.796-06:00Nice post. You're really good at putting your ...Nice post. You're really good at putting your emotions into them. Have an Ok day.Maria Bloodwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08923411616037655136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-20832371175929286022010-04-22T16:28:06.485-06:002010-04-22T16:28:06.485-06:00great post very insightfulgreat post very insightfulBEEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10429690655037194801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-5749415347478180042010-04-22T10:59:54.017-06:002010-04-22T10:59:54.017-06:00you know pople so well chris, do you get paid lots...you know pople so well chris, do you get paid lots and lots of money to get the insights you do on us and then carefully teach us how to live?????????are you one of those professionalls who know so much and then go on in their{my} lives to be our special trainer and confidant , who have it made and then want us to have it made also??????one of those??????Putzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480109111920196513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-46353032248782342262010-04-22T10:46:57.982-06:002010-04-22T10:46:57.982-06:00Should be required reading for each of us who thou...Should be required reading for each of us who thought that our problem was our weight. If we could just lose the weight, things would be so much better. <br /><br />Great post, Chris.Roxiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440676304336222503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-87603141766776593282010-04-22T10:33:44.052-06:002010-04-22T10:33:44.052-06:00Great post Chris!!!Great post Chris!!!bbubblybhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06423578980112090148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-90438554945236027452010-04-22T08:59:53.565-06:002010-04-22T08:59:53.565-06:00Great post. Hope you don't mind me printing i...Great post. Hope you don't mind me printing it out. ((hugs))Christine Jeskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00980803092490489163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-2670799114622965242010-04-22T07:53:42.799-06:002010-04-22T07:53:42.799-06:00Great post! I really liked the idea of "bring...Great post! I really liked the idea of "bring it up again and kill it." Squashing our feeling doesn't work!Sevenbeadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17408190872701308055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-41067668161218602852010-04-22T06:37:09.668-06:002010-04-22T06:37:09.668-06:00Another insightful post Chris.
I'm definitely...Another insightful post Chris.<br /><br />I'm definitely a food is my habit girl. I have spent a lifetime using it for varied things: relaxation, celebration, depression, etc. I have to become very, very aware, especially right when I walk through the door after work. Otherwise I find myself just grabbing a handful of this or that. But those handfulls add up you know?Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14974376008651624094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-46419823868597761332010-04-22T06:26:52.094-06:002010-04-22T06:26:52.094-06:00I love your insight Chris. Thanks for breaking it...I love your insight Chris. Thanks for breaking it down and putting it out there for us....you're helping a lot more people that you even realize...and God knows we need the help, lol. You're the best. :)Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09903038555489140718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-56517741422372987572010-04-22T05:08:51.275-06:002010-04-22T05:08:51.275-06:00This is excellent! I agree with everything except ...This is excellent! I agree with everything except one eensy point. <br /><br />You said: "We don't keep anything in our lives unless it serves some sort of purpose..that includes our fat."<br /><br />That may be true for some people. But for some of us it is not the FAT we want to keep, it was the FOOD.<br /><br />The fat was just the unhappy byproduct of abusing food.<br /><br />Example: if I abused cigarettes, you can't say I wanted to keep yellow teeth and bad breath in my life. No, I want the cigarettes. The other is the byproduct of abusing cigarettes.<br /><br />I know some people like the buffering, protecting layer the fat gives them, some kind of protection. Lots of us don't relate to that. But we want to use the food as our drug of choice, and tagging along with that comes the byproduct of FAT. <br /><br />We don't want the FAT... we want to feel better. So we eat. Then get fat. Then eat. Then get fatter. Then eat. Then... well, I know you know.<br /><br />Just another perspective, another color in this multi-colored beast called Obesity.<br /><br />Good post!<br />Loretta<br />=^..^=Rettahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10034267067410245582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-22419776103437508142010-04-22T04:19:48.293-06:002010-04-22T04:19:48.293-06:00Yeah this is a really insightful post, thanks! I r...Yeah this is a really insightful post, thanks! I really identify with this - I eat my emotions, all of them, every single day. I'm a very emotional person! Just as I am trying not to let my emotions rule my behaviour, I need to stop them ruling my food intake too. I will certainly try to focus on what I'm good at and to look at what my weaknesses are. <br /><br />I didn't comment before but congrats on reaching 100lbs lost - that's a special achievement - well done!Onewhocareshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780474942806190702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-47516436753773263302010-04-22T03:37:52.713-06:002010-04-22T03:37:52.713-06:00Wow, you're good! Thanks for sharing. This is ...Wow, you're good! Thanks for sharing. This is exactly what I need to do; deal with 'my stuff'.Heather Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03048072548776847320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-11218572266225342072010-04-22T00:17:15.352-06:002010-04-22T00:17:15.352-06:00I sincerly enjoyed this as my GF said I would. I k...I sincerly enjoyed this as my GF said I would. I know that alot of weight issues can be linked directly to emotional consuming. I for one thought that is what it was for me.<br /><br />oddly enough though, after some soul searching found that it was more a comfortability for me. I grew up in a lard and butter home. Fried foods, mashed 'tatoes or something closely related to it and collored greens in lots o' butter.<br /><br />Veggies was a bad word in my house when I was a kid. Three cups of mashed potatoes and a 16 oz steak or a fried half chicken was NORAML in my house. So it wasn't the emotion for me, it's when I found myself straying into a zone of food that was found to be in the proverbial "scary dark deep end of the pool" I would quickly go back to what I knew from my kiddie days so I wouldn't feel like I was doing something wrong.<br /><br /> It took quite a bit of cold sweats and restraint to reprogram myself. I now stay as far away from all that as I can. Even in those difficult family get togethers when there are 19 out of 20 people that will eat five punds of chicken slathered in bbq.<br /><br />So as much as I understand emotional eating and the triggers for it....I know there are some even more deep seeded and sometimes very twisted reasons that people eat the way they do and as much as they do.<br /><br />And I very much look forward to seeing your input on how people use their fat as a tool. Because I have seen it done and I still know people that do.<br /><br />/cheersAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09601521521364306065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-44036887555351975632010-04-21T23:39:35.733-06:002010-04-21T23:39:35.733-06:00Great post. I wish everyone who is struggling woul...Great post. I wish everyone who is struggling would read your whole Journal, from start to now. <br /><br />You have a way of writing that cuts to the heart and helped me to face a few demons that I was sure were in the past. Life can be like an onion peel with layer after layer but once the initial skinning is done it's a lot easier from there.<br /><br />There's nothing like serious weight loss to expose the #$%&&*&^% in our lives. I couldn't agree more that every person who becomes morbidly obese is using their fat to hide something and their weight loss efforts will never be completely successful until they begin to deal with whatever they are trying to hide.<br /><br />I'm so glad you decided to journal on-line.MargieAnnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591436464085450834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-71700182515350175462010-04-21T23:31:40.803-06:002010-04-21T23:31:40.803-06:00Yeah, I'm with the lady above me...you're ...Yeah, I'm with the lady above me...you're on my same mental track too. I quoted your last blog post in my previous post. Gosh, you help me so. I'm hoping this next step I take will be the one that gets me out of this funk and I'm hoping that my little revelation is going to be key. Thanks for your posts...so thought provoking. :)Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13717571306196215906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-43121299014361487962010-04-21T23:03:19.931-06:002010-04-21T23:03:19.931-06:00Well.
I'm especially enjoying these posts.
At ...Well.<br />I'm especially enjoying these posts.<br />At any rate, I am there. I've been "not using" and watching to see what's hunger and what's a "craving" (and treating it as such) on a pretty consistent basis lately. Like for 4 months. And of course, bam. Those fun feelings. You seem to be on the same mental track as I am lately. Now if I can get down to your hot ass size...:-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-46906582544909220872010-04-21T23:03:05.203-06:002010-04-21T23:03:05.203-06:00Very timely for me. I've just been struggling...Very timely for me. I've just been struggling with this issue and then of course, ate a bunch of my emotions this afternoon. Thanks for sharing your point of view :)Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16163761315460773988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-463655558550518858.post-83875371360131963592010-04-21T23:02:46.445-06:002010-04-21T23:02:46.445-06:00Another insightful and inspiring post, Chris.
Yo...Another insightful and inspiring post, Chris. <br />You've done so well at getting to the nugget of this thing.<br />My word ver tonight is "shero" can you believe that? Isn't that great? :)Brightceterahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315996303259692721noreply@blogger.com