Gremlins

So your minding your own business, working on something or thinking about something when you hear those voices in your head telling you this will never work. Your not good enough to pull this off, to create something amazing, you failed in the past, you will fail at this too...... Gremlins.

I didn't coin the term -- I was reading Magpie Girl's blog -- just clicking around to read past posts and there it was.

Gremlins. The voices that undermine all of the wonderful, amazing things you are trying to do. The ones that steal the joy from your living.

Magpie girl has some interesting ways to deal with them --- but the important thing to me is for you to realized that just because the voice in your head says you will fail at this weight loss attempt -- it doesn't mean it is true!!! And trying to rationalize you way through those voices doesn't really help because they hit you where you are vulnerable.

There is no easy answers to dealing with your gremlins -- each of us has to try and try again. But to be able to celebrate our everyday triumphs (which is what I am asking of myself and all of you) our gremlins have to be told to be quiet so often, they get tired of talking to us and go away.