First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.
PHIL MCGRAWIn the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.
More Phil McGraw Quotes
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You create the results in life that you believe you deserve.
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Experts indicate that you should aim for consistent weight loss of about one to two pounds per week, so you should remain realistic—you aren’t going to lose 40 pounds per week (no matter what any diet product claims).
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The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.
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If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.
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If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.
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I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.
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Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.
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The most you get is what you ask for.
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I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.
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I’ve never eaten a taco, and I don’t plan to.
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If we were all just alike, one of us wouldn’t be necessary.
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The only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less
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Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
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These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children, the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
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Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you’ve got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.
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