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I'm finding many similarities between quitting smoking and losing weight

JonesCarpeDiem
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First, I did my weigh in and I lost the 2lbs I was supposed to lose last week

.................................slow

but sure

This dieting however is alot more time consuming.

It takes alot of time to weigh everything out and count all your calories

and package it all up to freeze so you don't have to do it every day.

thanks god for turkey burgers and the mcforman

with quitting smoking you just have to hold on until you don't think of smoking.

This is usually around 4 months

you don't have to smoke but you have to eat.

so food is something you cannot just stop.

i feel for you ladies.

someone here informed me most females spend most of their lives dieting. (to me that means not having something you want, rough word "denial")

that's rough.

So now I sing........

to all the pounds i've loved before...the ones that blocked me at the door....

I say goodbye to you no better than poopoo...... to all the pounds i have no more...

something spooked that cat....a memory? a smell? (I'll never tell)

 

back to the diet

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.