So, I've been thinking about something the last couple days. Idk where I was when it dawned on me. Driving home from somewhere, talking to myself.

To lose weight, I should do the following:

1) Stop over-analyzing.
Stop Oprah-ing in my head. "Oh I'm an emotional eater...it's hard to control." :( Yup, I know myself. I know why I overeat. Stop psychoanalyzing WHY, and start THINKING about what you're grabbing BEFORE you eat it. Are you really hungry? Maybe some celery would hold you over til supper. Maybe you don't need that cheese. Are you full? Do you really have room for dessert? How about some creamy, sweet, strawberry yogurt, instead of gingerbread, topped with brown sugar and drowning in milk?

 2) What do fit people do when they gain 5 lbs. over the holidays? Slack off!! Lay off the cupcakes. No more chips for a while. EAT SOMETHING ELSE! Have some fruit, or vegetables, or a smoothie. Lighten up! Eat some lighter foods for a week or two. Instead of a chowder, maybe some vegetable soup. Take it easy on the comfort foods. Nourish your body instead, and only have comfort foods occasionally.

 3) STOP EATING SO DAMN MUCH! Seriously....think about "starving children in Ethiopia"! Here we are, gorging on whatever we want, whenever. Spending almost as much as our mortgage payment on food in a month (or more, maybe--we have a small payment)! Simply put: How GREEDY!! Save some food for somebody else, for God's sake. You pitiful, greedy, self-loathing, self-pitying, gluttonous COW!! [<---Tiger Mother tough love to myself. ;)] Families in our own neighborhoods are going hungry, barely scraping by. Put down the 2nd plate of supper, or the second piece of cake.

 4) Possibly--just possibly--your ass is fat because you spend so much time sitting on it. GET UP!! Get off the couch! Get off the computer (ahem...well not right now, lol). Chase your baby around the house, play in the yard, walk to the beach, RUN on the beach instead of sitting "relaxing" in the sun! Swim! Jump up & down! Just MOVE!! Moving is FUN!!

Watch a toddler for an hour. They don't (or shouldn't, hopefully) laze on the couch for hours. Running, jumping, climbing, playing, and just moving their bodies is exciting, and a joy! And so it should be.


Really. It's that simple. Stop overanalyzing. Eat lighter. Eat more mindfully. And GET MOVING!!