My back is much much better now thankyou to all who sent healing! I know it is all caused by the worry and uncertainty about our home. Will the bank take possession or will we be allowed to auction it ourselves? Each time my back hurts now I remember to stop, breathe and affirm the result I want - really the only one I will accept!
Chris and I have realised that we need to keep in action about our future - we had stopped moving forward and there is no question that we need to be out of this house and into Newcastle. We are going through the house and packing the bare essentials that we wish to keep and the rest is either being thrown away or will be sold in a clearing house sale - we have so many lovely things but we do not need most of them and it is time to start fresh. We both feel the need to get back to the absolute basics, simplify and zen eveything - so we are!
After the clearing sale we will begin to seriously look for rental accomodation in Newcastle - don't know which area - Fern Bay has been suggested - any other suggestions will be appreciated - we must be able to have our fur babies with us! I think we will most likely move out of the house before it is sold - It will be easier to sell vacant :o(
The lap banding is going really well, though I have found I am still eating waaaaaaay to much at most meals. I was loaned a copy of "The Great Australian Diet" by Dr John Tickkel - you know the guy off Celebrity Overhaul, and have been reading it over the last 4 days. Veeeery interesting... most of it I already knew -(just have never put permanently into practice) but one thing that has really struck me with it is that when you feel hunger - it only takes a few mouth-fulls to satisfy that feeling of hunger. There is no need to eat a whole tub of yoghurt when a couple of spoonfulls will do, there is no need to eat a whole banana when a 1/4 will do. A half a peice of bread with asparagus or avocado is more than enough. WOW - this is a whole new concept for me and has given me the answer for coping with the over eating even though I have already cut down heaps!
I was thinking about it - as children - we say we are hungry and are given not just one biscuit with vegemite but 2 or 3 (I was anyway) We sit down to big meals which satisfy our hunger. We do not eat a little then come back for more if we still need it - we eat a lot to make sure the hunger is gone... We eat when the clock says it is time - not when our bodies say it is time. how often do your children tell you they are hungry an hour before dinner yet they had to wait for the clock?????
This all teaches us several things:
- To stop listening to our bodies
- To eat according to the clock
- That it takes a lot of food to satisfy hunger
No wonder so may of us struggle with our weight.
Who remembers hearing - "You must not leave the table until everything on your plate is finished!" - that is not eating intuitively - it is eating to the 'rules' and goes against common sense. Our bodies tell us exactly what and how much we need to eat at any given time and yet the way we were taught and still continue to teach our children teaches us to NOT listen to our bodies - to tune out the feelings of hunger and satiety, most of the time we do not even know the difference between the feeling of hunger and thirst.
Hunger is a feeling based in your stomach
Thirst is a feeling based in your mouth
I often (and still occaisionally do) used to eat when I was thirsty because I didn't recognise the difference - and I would eat and not be satisfied and eat some more of something else and not be satisfied and keep eating a bit of lots of different things and STILL not feel satisfied - that's because I was thristy! And generally the more I ate the thirstier I became the more I ate?!?
For me - this usually happens in the afternoon - you know that time when you just feel like you need to have a snack - around 4pm - I have realised it is actually thirst not hunger. A glass of water and a cup of tea gets rid of the feeling until I begin to feel hunger in my stomach for dinner.
I teach a program called the Intuitive Weight Management Program (and wow does this one prove to me we teach what we most need to learn!) and one of my past students emailed me this link yesterday. Thankyou Susan!
www.LightLeanHealthyBeingMovie.com
Mary Robinson Reynolds has created a new online movie and it is simply wonderful - please do yourself a favour and go and watch it! I haven't seen the full version because I have chopped up my credit card and they don't take paypal :o( BUT the part of the movie (3 1/2 minutes!) that is shown at this link is so powerful - I highly recommend it!
So, now I head off into my day - day one of The Great Australian Diet which is not actually a diet but a whole new way of eating with my etheric lap band. WOOHOO!!!
Sending you blessing of Light and Joy,
Karen
3 comments:
So glad that your back is better sweety and the lap banding is working out. Today I am starting my new exercise routine - 30 minutes walking per day and I'm also giving up diet coke - only water and chai green tea for me now. Wish me luck!
J xXx
I had been told that,usually, a house is easier to sell if it still has furnishings, so that it looks more "homey" or can show a potential buyer what can be achieved. Furnshings also had the added benefit of hiding the "warts" in your house, and can draw the potential buyer's attention away from the less flattering things about your home. It's hard to do this if you need to move on. Good Luck!
thinking of you both and glad you are making the move to our town- a fresh start is a nice idea and healthy every so often as well. Eat when you are hungry, thats the only way to do it- and walk too- good for the back....
two of my dearest friends had real stomach banding done and it has made a massive difference in all aspects of their lives....
weight is awful-losing it is worse.
hi to chris and the animals xx
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