Comments on: Resolve to Overcome Compulsion

By: Tom Coghill

Tom Coghill — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:07:54 +0000

Wow 310lbs of weightloss is indeed a great accomplishment.

By: Tom Coghill

Tom Coghill — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:06:31 +0000

Thanks for sharing Julie,
Sugar creates craving for more sugar that is for sure. And yes negative thinking is weakens all discipline.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:39:15 +0000

thanks for indicating that most of us are sugar sensitigfve — I kinow for myself I go berserk the minute sugar hits my lips and yet I continue to “try to eat just a small amount”. I’m humiliated day after day after day.
I want to be stubborn and stick to my guns but then I feel like I’m being cruel and that God will punish me because I do things “punitively”. When I need to get away from negative people I do it punitively…when I hve to make a point I do it punitively and I’m constantly telling myself I’m no good –I want to be that stubborn person. When I succeeded in losing 310 l bs. I was stubborn and wore “the eye of the tiger..” there was a quiet determination within me….I excused myself at parties and went to my car and ate food that I brought with me….I’d be in a restaurant and would not partake in what others were eating….I stood my ground…I focused on the pot at the end of rainbow and didn’t falter. I cannot get that back again because I hagve to surrender to God which means I can’t be my own person.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:36:59 +0000

Out of all the information and research that I have done over the years, this type of thinking has always served me best. I do well with eating and not binging at times, but always end up “giving in”. I have wanted to believe that is was some type of chemical imbalance or food sensitivity that was always “making” me eat when I wanted to badly to stay clean. Although I am completely convinced that I am sugar sensitive, as most people are, I am also mentally weak! It is only when I a fierce with my determination to not snack, not let my negative thoughts get the best of me and to not give into evil temptations, that I get on a track that takes me far. I just need to find that stubborn person inside of me, that keeps me straight and helps me stay clean. We all have that person inside of us. We just need to call upon him/her!