Nana korobi ya oki (fall down 7 times, get up 8)
nana korobi ya oki is a Japanese proverb that translates roughly as “fall down 7 times, get up 8”. Well, I fell yesterday, and fell hard. I’m feeling a ton of stress personally, professionally and financially, and yesterday I made some sad choices in a very misguided attempt to deal with my feelings using food. Of course, those problems are still there, and I only caused myself guilt and regret. I’m still struggling today, but I have made a conscious choice to do whatever it takes today to resist eating or acting out any other way to deal with those feelings. They are just feelings, and I refuse to let them own me. I will call my diet coaches, do an exercise out of The Beck Diet Solution, and anything else I have to in order to stay on program. My life, my health and my sanity are worth more than any food.
The lesson that I’m learning is that I need to focus on the process. I’m struggling in part because I’ve already skipped two days of exercise this week, I haven’t been posting on the Weight Watchers boards much, I haven’t been doing the exercises from The Beck Diet Solution, and I haven’t been making daily phone calls to the guys in my support group. Losing 130 lbs is a huge task, and I cannot do it alone. Heck, I can’t even really control whether the weight comes off, but I can control what I eat today, whether I exercise or not, and whether I use the tools I have available to assist me. I need to surrender to the process and stick to my program.
Today, I get up again. And if I fall, I will get up yet again. I will persevere-the stakes are too high to give up.
Posted by Matt on 03/11 at 11:58 AM
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Hi Matt,
I have been looking for you on the WW Boards and found you missing. I was so inspired by your story and found it so very familiar to mine.
When I found you on Spiritual Space I put your Homepage on my Desktop….
And, now, today I get to hear from you.
I am old enough to be your Mother but I am relate to your journey with COE.
On one of my other Boards I was blessed to read from AA BB pg 22.
Don’t let the disease win by keeping you down emotionally and spiritually. It’s just another bump in the road.
I need you to get up and keep moving forward to give me strength in my own challenge to get off this extra weight to avoid Diabetes and help clear my arteries. I need you!!!
Get down on your knees and surrender.
love and prayers, RubyLee
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