Re: My up and down year

From: Bill (xxx_at_yy.zz)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:56:42 GMT

"Preston Crawford" <me@prestoncrawford.com> wrote in message
news:slrncdlq83.6mm.me@serpentor.cobrala...
> On 2004-06-24, Bill <xxx@yy.zz> wrote:
> > I have no idea why you would be afraid to exercise given that you have
passed
> > all those tests and you already exercise with no ill effects. Does that
not
> > make sense to you? Why not increase the exercise slowly? But set specific
> > goals. I think you should be more afraid to not exercise.
>
> I understand. Remember that anxiety isn't rational. Otherwise I'd snap my
> fingers and it would go away and I'd never worry about stuff like this.
> It's always irrational, but based on things that have a footing in the
> real world. So I feel a little off, feel some pain and my anxiety takes
> over and runs with it. In the back of my head I can't shake the idea that
> even though I've had all those tests I could be THAT guy for whom the
> tests don't catch the problem. Or maybe things have gotten MUCH worse
> since I last took the tests. Those are the kinds of things you think
> about.

If you feel you need to do this, there are phobia centers around the country
which are quite good. People meet in groups. I believe they have a high
success rate.

Bill

>
> > As far as diet you already know what to do. And you don't have to pass any
> > tests at all for that. It depends on whether you want to lose weight or
not.
> > You seem to have shown some ability in the past to contol your eating, so
do
> > you think you could probably do that again?
>
> Of course I could. And of course I don't have to pass any test for that.
> That's probably just me feeding the anxiety and now that I have something
> new to be anxious about I'm pretty certain I'll get my act together on the
> eating front. I'm already better than most (i.e. no fast food, etc.) but
> I'm kind of a sloppy pseudo-vegetarian right now. Lots of veggies, but
> then lots of cheese and snacks.
>
> Preston

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