Focus on What You Have
So often, while following a diet, I have noticed that I tend to focus narrowly on what I do not have or cannot have, as opposed to what I do and can have.
For example, I’m doing this lemonade diet, which means no solid food for the duration, and a very gradual return to solid food after (to keep your body from freaking out), and I keep finding myself seeing or smelling something and thinking “I wish I could have that.”
I ought to be focusing on what I can and do have: I have my lemonade, which isn’t the greatest tasting stuff on the planet, but it keeps me full and nourished. I’m managing to live very energetically and happily on about 1700 calories a day, which I have never been able to do before. I can have a cup of peppermint tea every day. I am losing weight. I am cleaning out toxins and parasites from my body, so I will be healthier than I have ever been when I return to “normal” life. I am wearing 14s and 16s for the first time in 6 years!
These are all fabulous benefits, and they are well worth the sacrifices and struggles that I am undergoing. And these struggles and sacrifices last for only 40 days.
As my mother said the other day: The food will still be there in a month. It’s not going anywhere. And once you are phased back in to regular food, you can make whatever you want and eat some. But after this, you won’t be tempted to gorge.
And, as my dad said: After this, your stomach will have shrunk and your body will be used to more liquids. So you will not eat as much and you will find it easier to get the water that you know you need to be healthy.
Those are good thoughts.