Hello, Fellow Low Carbers...
I originally posted this Letter to My Body in my journal... but it's been suggested that I post it here for those other than within my circle of low-carb friends to read. I've very recently become acutely aware of the relationship between my mind, my emotions and my body. Several days ago I woke up very early in the morning... while it was still dark out. My head was full of dialog about how sorry I am that I did this horrible thing to my body. I jumped out of bed and grabbed a notepad... not wanting to miss out on one fleeting thought. Because I had a bad eating day on Saturday... and it felt a lot like self-sabotage... I thought NOW would be a good time to gather those thoughts and remind myself just how important low carbing is to me.

After reading my letter, you might want to write a letter to your body. I'm telling you... if you write to your body from your heart, it will get you in touch in a way that you might not have ever been in touch before. It was an epiphany for me.

WOW!

Did this put things in perspective.....I can not thank you enough for sharing. I will write my own...in the mean time I am printing yours off and hanging it on my fridge.

You are an amazing writer... thank you again for sharing it with me.

-Amy

Thank you, Amy... I'd strongly recommend writing your own letter when you feel inspired. Heck... maybe even if you DON'T feel inspired. I'm not sure it's necessary to post it for all to read. I'll admit that that was hard to do... but for me, it made it more real...and more of a commitment to my bod. MY Body is saying, "Yeah, right. Prove it." THAT'S my challenge now.

Good luck to you, Amy!

Carol, I'm so glad you posted this here so that more folks will see it. I paid about $10 a week for months going to WW Meetings and didn't get nearly as much inspiration from all of those meetings as I got from your letter of apology to your body.

It takes a lot to inspire and motivate me and your letter has definitely lit a fire under me. Thanks. I needed that!
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Thank you for such a wonderful post - I am sitting here at work eating my lunch and crying my eyes out. People are wondering what is wrong!!!

I also need to do this badly. Thank you again for bringing this to my attention!

Hey, Shoog! Thank you for that. As you know I was hesitant to post this... but haven't regretted it. In fact, knowing that others can relate makes it all the more relevant to me. Makes me go: "Yeah... this IS important. This IS a major key to understanding what makes us all tick." This, for me, is like the missing link that should have been obvious all the time! Thanks for your continuing support, Shoog. You're the best, girl.

And thank YOU, Darla! Gawd... I'm picturing you crying while you're eating your lunch. Been there, done that! Better than laughing and passing milk through your nose, though! Anybody old enough here to remember George Carlin's "Class Clown"? He "passed a tuna sandwich" though his nose when a friend made him laugh so hard. I'm glad the letter touched you. I hope it will inspire others to write a similar letter. It's made a huge difference for me already in my food choices.

Great post - your honesty and pain reflects alot of how some of us feel (have felt).

Thank you.

Thanks. Your letter touched me. I felt my heart lifted. You put into words the feeling that caused me to change. When times get tough, lately, I remind myself of the promise that I made myself. I don't want to lie to others and especially not myself.

That was a very deep moment for me. Thanks

Lisa and statjunk... Thanks for your comments. The key for me is staying in this consciousness. I believe that I will now... since I've never been this close to my core. I feel like lights have been turned on... AT LAST!

Carol,
You are right though, about looking inward and solving your problems there. People can lose all the weight in the world, but it will not stay off until they face all of the "inner stuff" that got them there in the first place!

I good book that I have been reading off and on (how stupid - I should just FINISH it and start using what I have learned!!!) about looking into WHY we started to gain weight in the first place and what happens to us to make us turn to food at that moment. It really helps to write it down - like what you did or in a daily diary (not necessarily a food journal, but feelings and thoughts).

Obviously I was eating lunch here at work and snorting about passing the milk through my nose! What is worse is passing soda through your nose!

Wow, Carol that was fantastic. I had to read it two or three times.

Isn't it interesting how, when we talk to that body as if it's a different person, it suddenly becomes something 'worth' taking care of? We tend to take excellent care of our babies, our spouses, our pets, our careers, the car, the new hardwood floors... but our bodies take what's leftover at the end of the day, because the body is just 'you'. Not only are we too busy to take care of it, we also unleash incredible rage on it for "betraying" us.

But when you consider that body to be a seperate entity; something that works hard for you no matter how badly you treat it, you become aware of how much more care and consideration it deserves - and you realize that we, in fact, have betrayed our bodies, and not the other way around.

Thank you for sharing your letter with us, I imagine it took quite a bit to open your emotions to us. Your letter has really inspired me.

Hello again to Darla... and hello to Kristine and April... Thanks so much for commenting on my Letter. It was from the heart... which I define as the best of my emotions. My positive and constructive emotions reside in my heart... and, it seems, that my more destructive and confused emotions live in my gut. This Letter to my Body came from my positive bank. Can you tell... is it obvious... that I'm doing all sort of introspection and reorganizing? I am... and it's a wonderful Pre-Spring housecleaning! I'm enjoying finding all these hidden treasures that I feel sure we all have!

Darla... I had to chuckle about the soda through your nose. I've done that!

Kristine... I loved your observations about how we care for others and our possessions better than we care for ourselves. VERY well put! I liked that! I had posted something similar...well... along the same lines in my journal tonight. Here's what I said there... so you don't have to add yet another journal to your reading list... Sort of the same thing you said... in a way... eh? It's too soon to tell for sure... but somehow I feel SURE that by sort of dissociating myself from my Body... and seeing my Body as my Best Friend...well... I think I'll be more able and willing to do it for HER. I'm jazzed over this. Can you tell???!

April... Yes, it did take some doing... opening up THIS completely... but, on the other hand, I knew it was worth the risk of being judged harshly by some. It seemed so important to me, I thought that there MUST be others out there who might benefit from this different approach. I mean... most of us have tried everything else. Why not try THIS?

Thanks again for taking the time to post on this thread. I really appreciate your thoughts. -- Carol

>>"Here's what I said there... so you don't have to add yet another journal to your reading list..."

I don't have a list. I'm too unorganized.



YES, exactly. Exact-o-mundo.

Not to belabor my point here... but I just got a post in my journal from a buddy of mine. Here is what she said... and my response. I'm posting this here, because my explanation about my Emotions/Mind/Body philosophy is much more compressed this time. I KNOW my letter was more than a bit verbose!