February and love is in the air!

Girl Scout cookies just arrived in my town yesterday and I now have 90 cases of cookies being dispersed throughout my daughter’s troop. I am the “cookie mom” and in charge of ordering all the cookies and getting them all distributed to the girls so they can then deliver them to the people who bought cookies from them. Problem is, I ordered 17 boxes of cookies so my daughter whould make the level where she could earn a T-shirt!

Now I have 17 boxes of cookies in my cupboard. Here is my plan to NOT EAT THEM ALL!

I will donate most of them to the Troops at Hanscom AFB. Every year the Girl Scouts do this amazing cookie drive and donate thousands of cases of cookies to the troops and they then send them overseas and wherever the troops are. Isn’t that wonderful?! So I just have to remember that I am donating them to a very worthy cause and that should take the sting out of me not eating them!

The other hard thing that I will have to deal with is Valentines Day. Hopefully I will NOT get any chocolate candies or heart shapes Hershey Kisses! I love chocolate and for me I am lucky because if I don;t go near it I am fine but if I have one then it’s all over. So I will simply avoid it and be fine.

I love my husband but if he gets me any fattening food for V Day we may not make it to Year 11!

New Years Resolutions

I’ve been thinking about what New Years Resolutions I might want to make and so far I have the same list as I always have every year! Which by the way I never keep.

1. Firm up this saggy body using weights.
2. Make a huge amount of money and eliminate debt. (yeah right…)
3. Exercise more.
4. Love more.
5. Spend less money.

Yup that should just about do it. I would love to say that I will keep these resolutions but really it’s just like starting any other goal. I have set it WAY too big and never bother to break it down. Maybe I am just not that serious about it then or I am overwhelmed with it so I discard them and say it’s too difficult.

So let’s do this together and set small goals that we can accomplish. Take my first resolution to “Firm up this saggy body using weights”. I could break this down and set my goal to be “I will do 3 arm curls on each arm today” and do that for 4 days. Now really, how simple is that! I can do THAT.

Then I would make the goal be “I will do 6 arm curls on each arm today”. Easy.

Do this with me friends…take your resolutions and break them down into tiny goals. We might actually have a shot of ACHIEVING them!

Three ways to stop overeating … for good – The Herald Dispatch

TITLE: Get Healthy Tri-State: Three ways to stop overeating … for good – The Herald Dispatch

NEWS Get Healthy Tri-State: Three ways to stop overeating … for good

December 26, 2009 @ 12:00 AM

The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington WV

Next time you’re obsessing about another holiday eggnog or chocolate bombe cake a la mode, ask yourself this: “Would you shove that stuff into a friend’s body?” Mouth too full to answer? Use these strategies to nix bad habits and eat right:

1. Get lost (in your mind). When you want to eat to feel better, walk around the block (go ahead and put on your boots; we’ll wait) and think about the bad feelings that are driving you to the fridge. Maybe you can start sorting them out instead of hiding them behind three extra inches of abdominal fat. If the walk isn’t enough, try meditation or prayer. In some people, these calming focusers quiet the subconscious drive to eat.

2. Plan. Big decisions about food need to be made in the supermarket, not in your kitchen. Avoid filling your home with junk, and it’s easier to eat right. Shop the edges of the supermarket rather than the middle.

3. Pay it forward. One of the keys to waist-size success is how you balance two competing forces — immediate gratification (those chips) versus delayed gratification (a better body, better sex, fewer wrinkles, not to mention a longer life!). It’s tough, because immediate gratification is hard to resist. So try flipping the immediate gratification into a long-term consequence, and turning the delayed gratification into an immediate, visual picture. Like this: Think hard about the negative consequences of the chips (picture a clogged artery). Now visualize yourself two sizes smaller with all the grandchildren you want (or just Brad Pitt or Megan Fox lying next to you).

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When is it time to stop compulsive overeating?

By the time a person gets to my site and joins they have consciously made the decision that they want to make changes in their lives and PERHAPS stop binge eating. I say perhaps because there are still some people who join that are still not quite ready to give up something, even though it’s harmful, that has been a part of their lives for a very long time. It’s the same with smokers. They desperately want to quit but there is a war going on in their head that wants to keep smoking even though they know it is bad for them. They try the patch, gum, and pills but they fail. Why?

They are resisting. Resisting for what reason though? The mind is tricky enough to start to analyzing why we do the things we do but the fact is we resist things that we feel we aren’t ready for.

So my question is then, when is it time to stop compulsive overeating? I guess when you can decide that it is really YOU that wants to stop, not just because you know it is unhealthy, but because you want to be happier and feel better. You want peace.

Start Y’er Wrappin

It’s Monday and I only have a few days left before Christmas to do my wrapping.  My 8 year old is in school for the next few days so I am going to get it all done while she is there.  I hope. I bought the fancy wrapping paper cutter from Scotch and I bought the pop up tape dispenser that goes on your hand so I am armed and ready to go. Now I just need the motivation. I supposed I could have taken my own advice when it comes to setting goals and just done a few at a time so I wouldn’t be overwhelmed but clearly it’s 3 days before I need to have them completely wrapped and I am sitting here typing this! Okay, so I will head up stairs right after this and do a few. Then later do a few more. Maybe I’ll get into a groove.

I’ve been kind of “wrapped up” with my own thoughts lately about women and cancer because two of my friends were just both diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer. Both of them…can you believe that? And it’s within 5 weeks of each other. I have been struggling with how I can help them. I am the type of person that needs to help those around me whom I see struggling. I guess it’s just who I am and I like that about me because it is rewarding when you help someone but there are some things I just can’t fix. And for these two women, I don’t know how to help them.

Sometimes I do too much when I should let them figure it out on their own. For example, my 20 year old daughter and her boyfriend are trying to save their money for a trip we are all taking in February to Las Vegas. Her boyfriend, Chris, came by the house after work one night frustrated beyond frustration! He was hoping to make enough money to go out for dinner but he still hadn’t finished his Christmas shopping so they were disappointed that they had no money. I wanted to go upstairs and get the $25.00 gift certificate I bought to the Olive Garden to put in her Christmas stocking so that they could go out and be happy. I am a fixer. I am EXACTLY like my mom and she drives me nuts sometimes when she tries to fix things! So I withheld my instinct to make everyone happy and let them figure it out themselves. It certainly isn’t going to kill them to have to stay in for a night and eat soup.

I’m not sure what my friends will need but I am always going to be here as a friend for them. I have a feeling if I can just be patient enough, I’ll know what they need from me because they are simply going to tell me and that’s the best thing I can do for them.

I feel the same way about binge eating. When you are ready to get help tell the people around you exactly what you need. Tell them because trust me, they don’t know how to help you. They don’t read minds. They may care so much about you that it may seem like they are trying to “fix” it but I will go out on a limb and say that they truly want to help you but they don’t know how so they are guessing on what you need. It’s the same thing for my friends with cancer. I want so badly to “fix” it so they won’t be unhappy. But I am not in a position TO fix it. I am only in a position to be a friend and do as they ask me.

Well, I’ve put off wrapping long enough! Take care and please say a little blessing for my friends.

What would we do if we didn’t eat?

I am writing this from my office at home and it’s coming up to lunch time. I’m hungry! But working from home has it’s disadvantages when it comes to eating! First, I have to pick from the same old boring thing day after day. Secondly, I eat alone. It gets so monotonous that I hope to just find something, eat it, and move on.

So I was thinking also about how we use food to celebrate happiness and sadness. We eat like pigs on holidays and funerals. Obviously we have to eat to sustain life but what if we didn’t bring out all this food and drink? What if we found another way to celebrate? Like play games or go ice skating? There must be something we could do besides eat ourselves into oblivion!

Now think about this too. What if scientists finally come up with a pill that we can take so we don’t have to eat. This magic pill would fill us up and make us feel satisfied. You would never have to eat again! WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR TIME IF YOU NEVER HAD TO WORRY ABOUT FOOD AGAIN?

Think about that for today!

The holiday season and binge eating

It’s so tough to be around all this food! Thanksgiving was fantastic but boy did I eat a lot! I treated myself to my mom’s custard pie and it was like Heaven! Good thing its only once a year that she makes it. But what was nice was that instead of binging it was like a treat to me. And now I am good until next year when I will eat it again.

Is that how you feel about the holidays and being a binge eater? Eating compulsively is different than overeating on the holiday so I want to make sure that if you are reading this and wondering if you are a binge eater please check out my page on symptoms and faq’s about compulsive overeating so you can get the facts.

So how are the holidays for you? Are you overwhelmed, sad or lonely, or joyous and celebrating with your family? Believe it or not, any of these scenarios can cause a binge. Take it slowly, understand what is going on with you and see if you can recognize the pattern or the binge. Is it an opportunity binge, a boredom binge, a stress binge?

I truly hope you can enjoy the holidays and look forward to a happy new year.

Nadine

New members area complete!

Oh can I just tell you how happy I am that the new members area is finished????!!!!! It took much longer than I had hoped for but I suppose rebuilding an entire member section is a lot of work. I should give myself a little credit but I tend to get impatient when I want things badly enough .

I want to give a ton of credit to Rob, the developer of the new software, for doing such a terrific job at customizing some of the software and helping me get it all installed and working properly. If anyone out there ever needs a membership software program you should check out his site…the URL is http://www.internetmarketingsuccess.biz/easy_membership_web_site_software

So I hope everyone will enjoy the new members area!

Nadine

Update on the Members Area

Hi everyone,

Here is an update on the members area for the BreakAway Program…we contracted with a company in England and they have been working with us to build the members area the way we want it to look for you guys. We need a journal area, to-do list and goals area so that means it is all custom stuff.

I really hate to open the program back up again without it being finished so please hang in there for a few more days. I am hopeful it will be tomorrow but I also thought we would be done by now! So, I want it to be ready and de-bugged before we reopen.

Thanks again for your patience!
Nadine

New Members Area Coming Tuesday Oct 27th

Well, the past week and a half have been tumultuous to say the least for not only us over here but for all of you in the program trying to log in and get to the members area and program itself.

We use a third party vendor called Interlogy (which you should run in the other direction from) and it has been difficult from the get go but I really liked the fact that my clients could have an online area to write down their goals and to do lists and stuff so I stayed with them and just gritted my teeth every time there was an issue.

The company is run by one guy who is not very proficient at customer service and will not help solve his own bug problems on his software without a hefty fee and a week turn around time.  I’ve put up with that for 2 years.

Today the software crashed.  And I do mean crashed.  There is basically nothing left. And there is no support this time from him.  I quit.  I give.  My clients mean more to me than having to put up with software that is down and is now kaput.

So I had been looking of course for a new alternative for a members area and I did find one but now it is imperative that I get the new software up and running asap since none of us (that includes me!) can log in.  So I am rebuilding the members area and it will be better than ever.

I want to thank my members for their patience during this time and thank my prospective members for your patience while this is being rebuilt.  I am not offering any additional members until this is finished.

Check back tomorrow for the new login info. P.S. if you are a client you can email me at info@breakawayprogram.com for a new login.

Thank you all so much
Nadine Ann