Giving myself credit

Today's assignment in the Beck Diet solution is to give myself credit for things I've achieved. This comes extremely hard for me because I can be extremely self critical - to the point where I don't even notice the voice in my head - it jsut seems like it's my own thoughts.......which technically it is but they aren't even vocalised anymore.

So, I need to come up with plans to make sure I do take credit for things I do well. Instead of thinking of all the things that I haven't done yet for the diet, I need to think of the things I have done.

* I have read my advantages card every day, twice a day
* I have eaten sitting down for every meal yesterday and this morning
* I have tidied the dining room and living room to make them pleasant places to eat
* I have cooked a nutritious and healthy dinner for 2 nights on the trot
* I have kept inside my cals yesterday
* I have done exercise even though my class was cancelled

All these things are good things, things that I deserve credit for doing. Things that if it were someone else I would be egging them on, telling them how great they were being. So why can't I do that for myself???

I will have to try. Today I have two tasks for myself

1) Get a notebook I can call a diet noebook
2) Email my coach and explain what the hell this is all about

Now there's no major problem doing either of these so this is good. They are achieveable tasks. I can do them. I will do them.

And I'll be posting later to say I have done them!!!