Did you eat your dessert first?

Good morning, from icy Nebraska. They are talking about ½” accumulation of ice today for us so I drew some water in case our electric lines decided to go down. So I decided this would be a good time to add to my blog especially since my husband decided to go to work this morning. I told him not to call me if he slides in the ditch because I was sitting right here.

Yesterday was a rather interesting day after my first post to my blog. I would like to share one incident that happened.

My phone rang in the morning and it was a friend from my homeschooling days and she was in a panic about something she had done on email and she needed someone to tell her woos to. As we was talking I had shared with her that I had put up a blog and would like her to read it. She said she would so we hung up so she could read it.

Sherry (my friend’s name) said I didn’t teach her how to lose weight in there. I kind of didn’t know what to say because I didn’t know that I was to do that on my first posting. So I let her continue and she said that her dad always told them to eat dessert first even though they never did and she didn’t know that he ever did, but that was a saying she remembered he always said. So as we talked I discovered that she had a coconut crème pie in the refrigerator that had been calling her name and mind you she has done all those weight loss programs and diets just like the rest of us and she was being a good girl and not eating it and patting herself on the back each passing day as she suffered seeing it in there. So she finally said are you telling me I can eat that pie without feeling guilty and have all those other awful feelings that everyone has fed us over the years. I said go for it and she hung up. A while later she called me back and she said Renita I had a piece of that pie and I am full and she said you know what, it didn’t take a very big piece to satisfy me. She was elated.

So have you had your dessert first? Break some rules that aren’t going to do you any harm and try something new and see how freeing it is and how much fun and how good you can feel, because you committed a sin of your mind that you or someone had put there for all the wrong reasons.

Dieting is just that “die it”. I have been on a lot of the weight loss programs that are out there, Diet Center, Tops, Weight Watchers, using diet pills to lose weight with, and some that I don’t care to remember. Some of them worked, but only for a while, as long as I was willing to be diligent about it and eat only what they told me to. But when I learned there is a way to lose weight or dress size a more sensible way and fine out that it is something that can be restarted easily after you mess up that is the kind of weight loss program I want.