I'm sticking with TSP because my body clearly tells me it's the way to go, to hell with numbers![/QUOTE]
I'm absolutely with you, Barbara and Don. I mean, after all, I'm not even weighing any more. I feel good, and I even like what I see in the mirror. It's been very freeing, and I wouldn't trade this healthy feeling, or this new-found ease around food for anything in the world!
The hard part has been watching people that I deeply care about, after many years sharing a support list for CALP, who I know have 50, 100 or so pounds to lose, struggle to stay on or have successes on CALP. I have to shut the control freak in me up, and trust what I actually do know: That we each have to find our own path to wellness, even if it means stumbling around and hurting in ways that seem, on the surface, to be unneccesary.
I need to be more congruent, and think more like the therapist that I am. I don't presume to know what my clients' paths will look like. I just help them tune into themselves so that we can both follow their inner wisdom to their healing. I need to learn to extend that with my loved ones more consistantly. (This would be part of why we're not allowed to treat friends and family!
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Thanks for helping me see myself more clearly. I appreciate you both.
~ tiffany