Health and Coffee

The new American pastime is to lose weight. Obsessed with thinness, some Americans throwingHave you ever had a memory so vivid that you feel like it just happened yesterday? You know what I mean. You sit on a bus and you hear the music through the headphones of the person next to you. Suddenly you're transported to another time and place, without ever leaving your chair. The following story is a memory of over 30 years. It was not triggered by the romantic music, even if it was triggered by the smell of chlorine, while cleaning my bathroom.Having just returned from a six-month trip to Israel, I sat in my apartment. It was a fantastic experience, new friends, new places, new foods, and I gained 15 pounds. One of my oldest friends, called Jeanne, which I had not seen for many years, me on the phone. "Meet at the Jewish Community Center pool.
We can get together some time, and go swimming and then go out and have a cup of coffeeI really wanted to see Joan, and was a very good idea. But I remember saying he was busy. I told him I could not do, I had other plans. Maybe we could find another time.Do know what my excuse was it? I was too big and I do not want anyone to see me in a bathing suit that was there, sitting at home doing nothing, and decide against seeing an old friend because he was afraid of the way I looked I thought she might think it was a failure, I did not know how to take care more. Believe it or not, I do not like because I was fat. I knew she thought I had become sloppy and lazy, and I was not worthy of their friendship. And you know what I did next? I was chastised for staying home alone and eating, showing that he was unworthy to be with other people.
How many times have you missed because you did not like the way your body looked? Rather than with family or revive old friendships, stay at home that we by ourselves, to punish us with a crime, we believe we have been committed: the crime of not not look like models magainzes; crime ofwanting eat food we enjoy, instead of these "good for us." Instead, guilt keeps us back.Becoming "at peace with food" you to take a trip that involves a new relationship with food. Instead of experiencing frustration and disappointment, instead of feeling fear and competition between you and the food you eat, food takes its place as one of the many activities in your life with your family, friends, work and be active. And like other activities, it becomes pleasurable. in being at peace with food, you need to learn about yourself and why you have relationships you do with the food you eat.
All relationships take time to develop and change. Your relationship with food is not different.And when you are at peace with food, you will not be afraid to be around your friends, family, and food that often accompanies these appointments togethers.Life is too short. Please stop missing important moments of your life. Go swimming with Joan.


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