So is anyone else sick of their “stop voice”?  I heard mine a lot last week as I faced many challenges.  I had 3 nights where I was out with friends and man I had to talk too myself a lot during those times.  My goal was to drink NO alcohol!  Kinda like Lay’s potato chips–Carrie won’t drink just one!  Thankfully I listened which help me go down another 3.4 lbs–wooo hoo!  I did however hear myself telling that voice to shut it a lot, but alas I did listen—darn voice. Decaf coffee and I are best friends now btw.

Now I find myself fearing week 3–kind of like on The Biggest Loser when their week 2 is horrible because of those incredible week 1 weigh-in’s!  I fear the 3!  The risk for fearing the 3 is that other little voice in my head saying–”Well since week 3 is going to be bad you might as well have a great time”.  No!  Bad Voice!

I wonder, how many voices do I have in my head?  I better be careful writing this because some Psychiatrist out there will read this blog and give me an anti-psychotic medication by mail.  But that still is a big challenge.  Identifying all those voices that are in there, whether good or bad, and realizing what triggers them.

What triggers mine?  STRESS!  Man oh man it comes quickly.  When stressed my thoughts quickly go to “Eh Forget IT!  I don’t have the time for this, and I just don’t care.”  It is just to easy to stay in that unhappy/dysfunctional place instead of fighting for what I know is healthier.  Drives me nuts that fight inside my head, which creates more stress!  UGH!  Why do we do this to ourselves?  Torture isn’t it?

Well it is time for us to stop torturing ourselves!  It is time for us to give ourselves a break and fight for what we want, but in a supportive way!  Time to step back, take a big breath, and let that healthy stop voice rule and then PRAISE ourselves for listening to that voice.  The more we pay attention to that healthy stop voice the more we will hear it and the more success we will have.  We can do it and we deserve to do it!  Wow got fired up there, huh?  I have faith in your stop voices–good luck.  

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