Less about what you do wrong and more about what you do right!

I went to the grocery store this afternoon. Walked, in spite of the fact that I'd ridden my stationery bike 30 minutes this morning and intended to do it again after supper. Heading through the store parking lot and nearing the entrance, I realized that I was berating myself for eating too much this week. Really giving myself a talking to...

What is going on with my mind, I wondered. It was just this past Monday evening that I went to a Weight Watchers weigh-in and found that I'd taken off three more pounds. Here I am, only four days later, obsessing about my eating habits and figuring out how many pounds I might have gained and would I have to pay the weekly weigh-in fee* at the next WW meeting.

Oh, good grief, I'm doing it again. Instead of "relishing my accomplishment" -- my three-pound loss -- all I thought of was the many pounds I must have gained. Well, excuse me, Self, I'd have to do a lot more eating to put on pounds and pounds in only four days. So, get off that destructive course and focus on what you're doing right!

Along the same line of thinking is Suzanne Beecher's "Dear Reader" column for July 15. Well worth reading, as are all her columns..

*Note: Lifetime members have to pay for attending any week that they weigh-in at more than two pounds over their goal weight.