That Voice In My Head Telling Me To Fail!

Okay, I have lost a bit of weight, now what?  How do I keep motivated?  How can I keep my 'mind' strait when my house activity has shown the true meaning of chaos, stress, turmoil and always having 'something' to do.  Stress can make us do a lot of crazy things to try and console us...  Mine is eating!  After a stressful day at the Waddell household I tend to resort to chocolate, sugar, or other carb loaded treats.  I am like a recovering drug addict as of now...its an addiction, a behavior that I got rid of last March.  Well, I'm human....I didn't slip up or anything this week, but I was close.  When you are trying to lose weight....do not call it a DIET!  Because its not, I have fallen of 'diet wagaons' many many and many times !  Weight Watchers ( I love this, but hated figuring points for everything I ate, I have enough #s to balance with my check book:)  Low Carb (I'm not gonna lie, this has worked awesome for me in the past, but I don't want to eat bacon, eggs, and bun less hamburgers all my life)  Calorie Counting (still eating all the junk food allowed, but staying in my calorie range)  *Ahhh nope this does not work either !   I've also resorted to the drug Phentermine, years ago....at the time my doc told me that it was perfectly FDA approved and safe to use !  WRONG !  I took this drug for six months lost about 12 pounds, but totally was addicted to it, and the worst situation was gaining the weight once the drug was out of my system all at once.  I will never resort to any kind of this drug again, since it probably wrecked my metabolism for almost an entire year.  I have figured out what works for my body.  Eating healthy 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week!  Nope not dieting this time.....I told you that I've changed my life forever !  Whatever weight I will lose on this journey is staying off and never coming back to rent my body, like EVER!  I just have to work out some of those kinks in my brain that those late night binges are gone, and I can never go back and live that way again.  Thank you for being my weight loss therapist all of you who are reading this !  If I can get this story out to everyone that is fighting the bulge and unhealthy ways in your life, maybe one day you can change yours !  Lexi, my 13 year old daughter...(who one day may face the same issues I am having as of now, probably not since she has her dad's never ending metabolism and frame).....asked me, "Mom, how skinny do you want to get?"  I looked at her and said, "Lex its not about getting skinny, its about getting HEALTHY!"  One meal at a time, ONE day at a time is all I can work towards.  Happy Friday everyone !  TGIF
Philippians 4:13~