Howdy, everyone! I finally managed to get around to figuring out what's going on here (who's procrastinating on writing her thesis? Definitely not me...) and I am so impressed! Thank you so much, Kinsley! This is a fabulous idea and I'm so excited to see how it all ends up working. I know I'm already planning to try your pizza recipe sometime soon.
Shirlene (another leader, who was actually *my* leader when I was losing my weight) mentioned something today that I thought was really inspiring. We were talking about the meeting topic this week ("Nixing Negative Talk," for those of you who weren't around...Kinsley, I'm looking at you!) and she asked the group, "imagine the person sitting next to you tells you that they're thinking of giving up, and that they're really discouraged. What would you say to them?" There was a big murmur of "You can do it!"s and "Don't give up!"s and "You're doing really well!"s.
"So you wouldn't tell them that they're hopeless, and that they'll never get the hang of this, and that they should just throw in the towel right now because what's the point?"
:HUGE murmur of dissent:
"Okay, so if you wouldn't tell the person sitting next to you to give up, why would you tell yourself those same discouraging things?"
:stunned silence:
I'm keeping that in mind this week. I hope you guys do as well.
I won't be around on Monday (gonna be soaking up the sun in Texas!) but I'll see you on April 2nd...and I might have a treat--you'd better come and see!
--Tory
Tori! I'm so happy you posted! Yes.. I've been m.i.a from the group lately! Excuses excuses but I had a lecture one week for school I had to attend and then my mom and I were in KC for vacation, yay spring break! Those are good words of advice being I need them terribly since I'm to the point it's give up.. or some how get the courage to keep going! Thank you :) -Kinsley
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