Blame your friends.

No - not really.  I don't actually blame my friends, family or anyone in my life.  But I remember, over a year ago, reading some interesting research that if your friends were overweight, you were more likely to be overweight as well.  Social learning and all - basically it said since peer groups learn from one another their eating habits and also overweight peer groups tend to focus social events on food and thinner ones on exercise based events.

Anways...I do have a point with this...

And I want to write this and hope that no one will be offended - I don't mean to hurt anyone, its simply an observation about my life which I have made.

I have a lot of enablers in my life who give me the excuses to allow myself to stay or become large.  From the partner who tells me that he is sure a few chips won't hurt, to friends who gift me with sweets, to family members who tell me to give in to my cravings.

None of these people want to or are trying to hurt me in any way.  But I need to learn what messages surrounding food I want to listen to and now.  I'm, right now, choosing to listen to the ones that will help me meet my goals, and those aren't the ones that I am getting from my social support network.

This is why I am paying for the weight loss center.  To get new messages in my life surrounding food and to learn new habits.  And guess what?  It's working.  The weight is coming off.