June - Welcome and hang in there!

You're doing great to take this first step. And you're very brave to fess up about what is so hard. It's ok. We've all had those binges and we know it's awful. We're not about judging here.

I'm on step one too. This program still feels like a mystery to me and I'm taking it all on faith too. I've done my share of freaking out about eating too much the rest of the day, and I've gained some weight as I got started. But I can also feel some subtle changes happening too (i.e. a new habit of putting myself first in the morning, feeling really "solid" until lunch time, a new awareness how cranky I get if I am late with my program breakfast, stuff like that).

So far it seems like this program is about
1) focusing 100% on the step you're on and
2) learning to listen to your body in a whole new nonjudgmental way.

So while you're on step one, put your focus on the four parts of breakfast. No self-blame, no worry about what the rest of the day looks like. Just work on breakfast. Plan breakfast, strategize breakfast, think breakfast. And if you don't get all four parts of breakfast today, then you get to try again tomorrow. Keep at it and change will slowly start happening when you're not looking.

I think mosaic has a good point about maybe upping your protein at breakfast. Eating enough protein and complex carb at breakfast, within an hour of waking, will help a lot.

Come on over to the step one list and we'll talk breakfast!

- Gretchen

: : Ok, so I've decided to start
: with the steps and the last days
: I've eaten my breakfast the way I
: should.

: But I feel it is VERY hard not to
: quit all at once. I become worse
: and worse in this disease, I eat
: more and more sugar every day.