[*Anya*]

The total and absolute honesty in this thread truly touches me. I think it is safe to say that for most of us got overweight due to just plain eating too much of things not very good for us or even good things, in larger quantities than our bodies needed.

Maybe we currently (or previously) overeat/overate for different reasons but we have all wound up on this thread.

I have a terrible tendency to berate myself & to put myself down for things that most would call human frailties. Sometimes I see that others do that to themselves, too.

I am trying to be kind to myself for my human weaknesses and to focus on today instead if all of my yesterdays.

That includes eating. I will never be 110 again. I am not 16 again either. My goal weight is not as far away as when I started. I need to stop thinking that it feels a million miles away. Negative thinking puts me in a bad place. It is like a loop that can run for hours or days in my head.

I need to change that tape for so many areas of my life. Healthy eating for the rest of my life is only one part of it.

The honesty and courage I read on this thread helps me to be more honest with myself.

Thank you for that.