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Danniboi · 01-22-2007, 04:04 PM

Friends...

One year has passed and I wanted to take this oppotunity to thank all of you for your continued thoughts and prayers and emails. I have lost as much as 125 and am currently 100 lbs lighter than I once was. I know, what you must be thinking... Danny is slipping. You'd be right. I am slipping or at least I have been until the last few weeks. The hardest thing about GBS is that it's so effective in the first 12 months that we take it for granted that we are metabolic superhumans and that we are infallible...my friends, sadly we are not. I did great through the spring and summer and fall. The onset of the holidays really were my downfall. GRAZING BAD!!! Sure, you can have a mini slice of cake and not get sick after 10 months, and after all...it's only a sliver right. While were on the subject, you're eating plenty of good things for your body anyway, why keep up with those suppliments? After all, everybody says you look fantastic. "You look too skinny", they all say... go ahead and have a second cocktail, why not a third and forth? Why bother with all that running and swimming and weight lifting?

I've only now in the last three weeks been able to turn the scale around in the right direction and it's been very hard. I had to remind myself how important staying fit was to me, how far I had come on this journey. After all the hardship, it's just not worth it to throw it all away.

Remember noobies, this is a tool not a magic bullet. You will always have to work as hard as you are right now to be fit and healthy. Most of us ended up here because we somehow, someway associate food with love, or pleasure, or comfort (insert your personal need for validation here).

Once we remove one addicition, we tend to substitute another addiciton in it's place. I don't know about you guys (I mean ladies of course) but for me it hass been booze. Wine to be exact. I have been drinking like a fish over the holidays and finally just decided to go cold turkey to turn the scale around 22 days ago. UGH! I miss booze! I don't know what happened but I was just unhinged but I am better now. I had to travel over the holiday to some not so nice places and dealt with the stress of being away from home during the holidays by sitting in the hotel bar at the end of the day.

Stay away from the booze in your first year. I just think it's too easy to fall into an alcoholic pattern when you miss the eating so much.

All of you, take care of each other and be kind to one another.

PEACE