Food and Feelings: May 2007 Archives

Are you entitled to be happy as you are? Have you been unhappy because you figure you're supposed to be?

If so, what law says you must be unhappy? Will the fat police come to your house and arrest you for happiness while under the influence of overweight?

Will someone accuse you of being cluelessly happy when you're clearly not entitled to be? Obviously you must not know you're overweight, or you wouldn't have that smile on your face.

But wait one darned minute. Whose decision is it, anyway, whether you find happiness today? Have you been putting off contentment for too long, waiting for something that may or may not come?

The heck with everyone. If you're fed up enough with waiting for happiness, you'll realize that it makes no sense for other people to give you the green light. And is it possible you might be in such a sadness habit that if you ever did lose the weight, you still wouldn't be happy?

Choose happiness now. It won't stop you from losing the weight. They have little to do with each other. But I'll tell you this--finding ways to finally please yourself and no one else will help pave the way, eventually, to permanent weight loss, or at the very least, to great joy.

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