From The Beck Diet Solution website for today.

March 19, 2015 - Think Thin Thursday --

If you think, “I can’t say no when [my friend] offers me food because I’ll disappoint her,” remind yourself that if you had a peanut allergy and she offered you something with nuts in it, you would never consider giving in. Losing weight/being healthier is just as legitimate a reason to say no!

I agree!!! My co-workers love their "afternoon chocolate" and roll their eyes at me and say something like, "oh that's right, you can't have chocolate" I tell them would you offer an alcoholic a cocktail, then rub it in?

I am proud of how how much I have transformed. I work hard!

I refuse to feel guilty for refusing or even wasting food. I deserve to be healthy!

My mother and her partner are in their 80s and when I eat with them are always pushing me to have some wine or some of their dessert, more dinner, etc. It helps to remember that they have serious memory issues, but I really do get tired of saying "no thanks" or "I just don't want any more - but thank you anyway" and so on. Sigh. Gets old, but then i'm lucky they are getting old too, since it means i get to keep enjoying them!

ALl the folks i work with have seen my weight loss and so are so great about not pushing food on me, and last week at our snack/coffee time the host brought v-8 juice for me since i said I'm off fruit for a while (need to drop my carb count). SO thoughtful--it meant the world to me that she remembered I liked it, and couldn't drink the juices and such that are normally offered.

Now if only I didn't have to pass that basket of chocolates on the admin's desk every day, ten times a day! I've decided that every time I pass on eating them it strengthens those mental messages to not do it--so this week it's worked out fine. As long as there's no Peanut Butter cups! (I drew the line there and told her she could bring in anything but those - lol.)