tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post3173534257693978340..comments2023-09-06T07:14:09.986-04:00Comments on No more running: Knitting fail ...Debbihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17727115174070254910noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520412246310459623.post-15055820139875433312012-11-09T20:19:26.431-05:002012-11-09T20:19:26.431-05:00I TOTALLY get and sympathize with where you are on...I TOTALLY get and sympathize with where you are on the nagging thing. My mother was after me about my weight from the time I was a teenager until about 8 years ago when one day I lost my patience and told her in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that she was never to mention my weight to me again. <br /><br />Amazingly, she's listened. If I might forget and bring something up about it, she will sometimes venture some advice with a great deal of trepidation in her voice - I can tell that she will remembers how serious I was when I said it.<br /><br />As I'm fond of saying, "If you could nag someone skinny, I'd have been a size 4 since 1970-something." Sadly, the nagging has the exact opposite effect. So much so that I have spent some time reflecting on why that is. <br /><br />Eventually, I came to realize that for ME (this might not apply to you at all), it's like the person nagging is taking my personal power away. And any weight I lose or accomplishment I achieve becomes "theirs" instead of "mine." So out of spite, I will do the exact opposite of what the nagger wants me to do.<br /><br />Of course, note that I said my mother has been pretty good about staying away from the weight topic for a number of years and I have not lost the weight I need to - or even kept off what I had off at the time it happened - so that's obviously not the only issue. It's just that IT. DOES. NOT. HELP!<br /><br />And yet, they nag on... If only they knew that we already hear the nagging from within and adding their voice to the chorus can truly be the last straw to turn us in the wrong direction!<br /><br />Good luck!<br /><br />denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873046572246069891noreply@blogger.com