your sabotoging thoughts and responses to them

thanks to another poster I found out about the Beck Diet solution.... based on changing your way of thinking before even hitting the food part...

the suggestion is to write out sabotaging thoughts and then the responses and revisit them daily to stay strong

What does the little devil on your shoulder tell you and what do you tell it back to get it to shut up?

My big one is: I'll worry about it tomorrow  eating healthy, exercising, etc)

response

For one, tomorrow never comes; second I can do right today AND tomorrow and that will make me closer to my goal, and finally, I will feel better today if I do right today....

really?!? no sabotaging thoughts and/or responses to kick them away?

Oh, I have some self-sabotaging thoughts! :) I always hear this voice telling me in my head "no matter what I do, I"m not going to change." or "the weight will never come off...." "and my favorite "I'll never be thin again...." as for the responses...I don't have that figured out yet! Any advise I'd love to hear it!

I know those thoughts have gone through my head more than once!

Let's see.... Maybe: I can be thin if I treat myself well today and continue every day" weak, I know but that's why I need help :)

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Self-sabotage:  It's going to take soooo long to lose all this weight I have put on over the past 20-odd years.

Response #1:  The time will pass anyway, I may as well be making positive changes in my eating/exercising habits so that I will be thinner rather than fatter in 2 years.

Response #2:  Nothing will really change once I am at goal, I am not "on a diet" I am eating/moving the way I should be to be at my goal weight.

Awesome- I am going to use that :)

oh and dkenworth- I just read you entry about donating 40# of food for the 40# you lost.... that is amazing- not only are you doing good for yourself, but helping others too!

sometimes i think"you don't look any different than when you started, and people who are saying you look good are just being nice"

then i respond to myself saying..."seriously? you've lost about 38 pounds and you look the same?  give me a break."  I don't think this as often as I have made people with my measurements and saved the pics so I can actually SEE the differences in my actual body on an avatar.

I find the idea of dieting itself to be daunting and self sabotage, so I remind myself that what I really have is a collection of 'bad eating habits' that I must replace with other healthier habits. 

I get discouraged when I realize it will take months of this before I am at my goal, I have been doing so well, I am tired of waiting, and I want junk food now!

I tell myself that I will feel guilty and angry in about 30 seconds after I eat that, I won't feel any happier.

Also, 6 months from now I will be really mad if I am still fat. A few months of hard work is nothing when you consider how much better I feel when I am thin. I'm mad I didn't start a few months earlier, I could be thin already! 

I want to eat everything because I am sad, bored, etc

Food will only fix hungry, not emotion....