~Charlotte Johns
So far, so good. Feels good to be "In control", to have a plan, and be able to implement it. For breakfast I had 1/2 a large bagel, and it stayed with me - I usually start getting hungry around 10 AM or so (I am an early bird - my late bird friends tell me that leaves too many eating hours in a day,
hmmmmm - food for thought - sleep more, eat less?!?!?)
Now on to knowing Charlotte in a more complete way:
I have tried everything there is TWICE or more!! For example, there was the time that I ate only boiled eggs & tomatoes for a week - - I think that diet actually had a name which is elusive to me right now..... BUT none the less, I lost weight on it, probably 10 lbs. (I was much smaller then and still complaining about being fat.......... sigh) BUT who can face a boiled egg today because of it - - I CAN'T - - rarely even a deviled egg dare touch my lips, too many "boiled egg burp*"
memories from that particular dieting phase.
Then there was the Nutri System thing when I was 17, eating canned food which resembled much less than what we fed our lovely, highly intelligent, Heinz 57 white mutt who sported the name of "Dorsey" - but my parents were paying for it, and it was quite expensive, and those were lean days financially speaking - and I ate it with pride........ FOR A WEEK and 1/2!!! And then, I remember it well, it was a "Mom's Famous Fried Catfish Special" night at home mmmmm and was it ever good, she always fried the best fish, and we usually had fried potatoes and gravy too, and there was nothing better..... So therefore, I thought I would simply DIE PHYSICALLY if I didn't participate in our yummy dinner, and I wound
up begging my way out of Nutri System and into a lucious plate of fish......
Sad to be struggling with my weight still, but glad to have a belly full of
momma's fish and to be out of the canned dog food phase.
Then the counting spells......... First, fat grams, then calories, then back to fat grams, then to Carbohydrates (yikes, where do all those carbs come from)
then to diet pills..........hmmmmmmm Let's camp there a while.........
I was raised with the generation whose nature was the "quick-fix" - and heavens NO, my mother is not responsible in any way, other than the particular night she was ovulating when my parents slept a little too close one night in the month of, as I have it figured, late January - early February 1962 - - must've been cold........... ANY who, my whole generation is guilty of "wantin' what they want when they want it" It's been environmental conditioning.... fast food, drive thrus, money machines, computers, airplanes, you follow my drift?? I can remember my first excursion with over-the-counter diet pills, I believe I was in the 9th grade, and somebody had filled my locker with FAT FARM ads from the magazines in Home Ec class..... and now mind you, I was NOT fat........ YET........ but ya wanna talk about sendin' someone into an eating frenzy...... that'll do it!!! WOW, now that was some painful stuffing, and that would begin the cycle of my unhealthy coping method of "medication by eating"
*Sorry for the graphic nature of my memoirs..........
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