Can you believe it's already Springtime? I wonder where the time goes. I know there are still 24 hours in a day and so many days in each month and so on, but it does seem to fly by. I have to believe it's because we don't stop and take time to "smell the roses" so to speak.
During some of our seminars in CPE we have been dealing with Family Systems Theory. I never took those courses in grad school because it wasn't needed for my degree and I quite frankly didn't want to know all about me. LOL However, during the last few weeks, I have learned a lot. One being triangulation. Now, I didn't stay "Strangulation" which is sometimes more fun that the other. Learning to take oneself out of the triangle is harder than swimming upstream for me, but I have linked it to something I can relate to and it seems to be helping. Notice I said "helping" and not working.
Over the past 3 months I have had to learn how to eat and more importantly, what to eat. There are some things I just can't tolerate even now. So, I try to stay away from it because it physically hurts me. I still can't eat breakfast meats. I guess because of the fat content, I may never be able to eat breakfast meats. But, is this a bad thing? I don't think so. We do tend to eat things and not realize the long term effect it has on our bodies. If you fry a piece of bacon, take the bacon out of the pan and let the pan cool, the grease from the bacon sets up and becomes the consistency of paste. Can you imagine this stuff lining your stomach walls? Yuck!
Having given you this lovely look into your stomach after breakfast, let me see if I can bring this together. All that grease makes me physically hurt, so, I don't eat it to avoid pain. Being in a triangle in a family system hurts, so I am trying diligently to stay out of it. Is it working? Not always. I'm a very opinionated woman and if you don't want to know what I think, then it best that you not ask. But given the physical and emotional pain of being in the triangle, maybe it's just as well we back away from it just like we should back away from the bacon.
BTW - 3 months and 51 lbs. and counting. Thanks for your support.
