Tips for newbies

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Registered: 04-13-2004
Tips for newbies
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Mon, 08-30-2004 - 3:14pm
If I can join Forte in wishing Newbies welcome, and in posting occasional "tips" which might help along your weight loss journey. I think she started offering a thread with suggestions after one newbie, rightly, pointed out that regular posters are just not helping out our newcomers. So if this helps, use it. If not, then don't. But at least I can join Forte and try to help you.

To wit:

In his book, Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood, Wayne Muller traces many of our psychological ills to the bad habit known as "repetition compulsion.' After growing up, we unconsciously recreate the situations that damaged or addled us as children. In this way we hope to find the healing we couldn't find when we were young. We choose friends and lovers and employers who inadvertently play the roles of our original family members as we continually restage our old imprints in search of some feeling of resolution that will set us free. Some of us over eat and blame the food, or the circumstances (fast food joints, etc). That's the bad news, newbies. The good news is that the next weeks will bring the best opportunity ever to escape from repetition compulsion. My advice to newcomers, therefore: Just do it. Exercise reasonably. Pay attention to what goes onto your plate and into the mouth, every meal. And repeat. You'll get there.

Best wishes,

Astri

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Registered: 03-20-2004
In reply to: astri_c
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 5:52pm
Hi Astri,

Thanks for joining, Astri. The newbies asked for, and needed, tips ...so thanks for lending a hand. Knew the board could count on you too! Bump.

Forte