Hi Lea

Eventually you will be the you that you want to be by doing this program, because when you are off sugar and steady, the things that are really important to you are important enough to do something about and achieve, plus we find out how to do them and have the confidence/mental energy to do them.

Love

Jane
xx

: Hi Debbie,

: Just wanted to chime in, as Allison
: said, that low blood sugar can
: definitely cause anxiety.

: Eating regularly, as this plan builds
: to, seems so simple... deceptively
: so. My view used to be, well, that
: is too simple.

: Yet, I took a good long while to get
: comfortable with breakfast, so I
: wouldn't dream of not having it
: (and the other parts of breakfast
: of course). It wasn't just an
: external "to-do", it
: became part of my toolkit for
: daily normalcy. Normalcy? That was
: not ever in my vocabulary!! Not
: before this food program.

: I used to get stuck in meta-analysis
: about the whole thing. I am here,
: over anxious again, but 'eating'
: should be something I am already
: doing... wasn't helping. What
: helped me, was thinking, well, I
: have the rest of my life ahead of
: me, and despite feeling the way I
: do, I am doing okay getting by.
: What if I made a small change and
: it helped, and then I could do
: another small change? I was tired
: of being a yo-yo... but I still
: yo-yo'ed, on my way through the
: steps, with anxious thoughts. I
: couldn't be any other way! and it
: was okay. Because the steps were
: building a foundation, and
: gradually, change caught up to me.
: My biochemistry changed.

: It's real - our boichemistry changes,
: my biochemistry changed, on this
: food program. The expression of
: me, is so much closer to what I
: would like 'me' to be, than it was
: before. (I wouldn't expect to be
: exactly where I thought I ought to
: be... I think it's okay to still
: want to change and grow!)

: Give it a try, and then give yourself
: permission to eat that breakfast,
: and post when you are verging on
: an anxiety yo-yo (as I have come
: to call it, in myself...) because
: being in community helps. I hope
: you (or someone reading this!)
: finds it reassuring or helpful to
: the commitment to keep with the
: food.

: And tell us about your adventures
: with a program-friendly breakfast!
: My current breakfast favourite is
: a shake, with precooked mashed
: squash, frozen blueberries, olive
: oil, and microfiltered whey
: protein powder (because I don't
: digest lactose well).

: Pleasantly,
: -Lea