Just heard a podcast yesterday that our subconscious is our worst enemy in losing weight. Eat when hungry and don't stress. Stress undoes everything as well. Stay happy, eat what you know is healthy and stay within your limits. Have hope.

So how do I keep my hope from fading? If only I could answer that question.

Very interesting... I have a different thought on the stay happy piece. I think what gets us into trouble is that we think we should be happy all the time and we resist the natural yin-yang...natural contrast of the world by buffering away those negative feelings. We spend a lot of time feeling negative about the fact that we feel negative and compounding the situation.
If we learnt to accept that we would experience negative emotions half the time, then we wouldn't try to escape them so hard through overeating, overdrinking, over-anxiety, over-netflixing or anything else we are "overing"

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Good thoughts Thulz.

Hope. Where would we be with out it? Just when I defeat one crisis I am faced with another. Use my excess stress to walk faster, work out harder, and courage to confront the hard stuff. Tomorrow meeting with the police at 11 to file a digital rape complaint for my mentally impaired daughter. Then being examined by ogbyn and therapist. Hope

Tyme4me, I can't imagine what you and your daughter are going through. Who does that? People with special needs are people. I work with people with special needs and they make me wonder who exactly has the disability?