Hi Cheryl,

Welcome and congratulations on working on step 1 -- do you know the four parts to breakfast? -- within an hour of waking, with adequate protein for your body, with a 'brown' usually whole grain thing, and every day.

You will be amazed at the way how you feel will change doing this program. I can remember the first time I realized that I had gone all the way from breakfast to lunch without thinking about food! It was so different than how controlled my whole life had been by food.

It really is not a hard program full of deprivation and angst, just go slowly and let your body adjust to each small change, and you will find like many of us that there is no real downside and things just keep getting better and better.

Keep posting!

Joy S

: Hi All,
: I'm new to RR having purchased
: Potatoes not prozac a couple
: months ago. I've had a gut feeling
: for some time now that in order to
: get my life on track I first need
: to address my eating. I've been
: fighting that knowledge with
: gusto, despite desperately wanting
: to move my life forward into the
: place I know it can get to (ie a
: great, positive place where I am
: living nearer to my true
: potential)
: Food is so safe - it keeps me where
: I'm used to being! I hate it and
: love it all at the same time but
: it plagues pretty much most of my
: waking moments. Is this part of
: sugar sensitivity?

: I'm trying to focus just on step one
: as the book suggests - my style is
: more rush rush rush, then wonder
: why it's not working, then give
: up. I think I rush stuff so it
: won't work so I can safely go back
: to what I know whilst being able
: to cry and moan about the fact
: that I try and it doesn't work.
: Victim mode welcomes me back with
: open arms every time!

: I think doing step one slowly will
: mean facing the 'stuff' that i've
: been successfully hiding from for
: all these years. And that's vital
: if i'm gonna move forward.
: Is this familiar to anyone else? x