I've been working on what I say to my reflection in the mirror. And today I told me that I looked great and I winked at myself. Which cracked me up - and then I was looking at myself smiling which made me smile more. Sound crazy? A bit. But...if it works and it's free, what harm can it do? You know how if you go to a party and ten people compliment you on your outfit but one person makes a mean comment about it - who are you going to be thinking about on the car ride home? The mean comment. We regurgitate the hateful stuff that gets said to us - and sometimes those comments have been misconstrued by us - misheard, misinterpreted. But we go over and over them in our minds until we are believing them - letting them ruin our day. So I'm building an invisible brain fence against harmful comments and I'm giving myself compliments to think about. Try it. Go smile at yourself in the mirror and say something really nice to yourself. It's pretty hard to be mean to yourself - and boy can we ever say awful things to our reflections - but it's pretty had to be mean to yourself if you're smiling and winking at your reflection. I'm working hard at this journey - I deserve to hear good things even if they're coming from me.
Found Cocopops today - (not Cocoa puffs) They are a six inch circle of wheat and corn sort of puffed - in fact, in the store where I got them the machine that makes them is right there on site popping out one every few seconds. Each circle is 16 calories! They taste lighter than a rice cake - if it's possible to be lighter than a rice cake - and they almost dissolve in your mouth before you have an opportunity to chew - but they don't taste awful and they're BIG and they are only 16 calories. So I've found a new friend. Filling and not fattening. Oh, and blackberries. Had a bowl of blackberries today - this bold pop of taste in your mouth. Yum!!