BIG GIRL PANTIES~ Some wear them. Some need to wear them. Others just need to pull them up.

Big girl panties. So many things come to mind when I hear or say "Big girl panties".

For instance, when I've said "Pull up your big girl panties" I may have been talking to my daughter when I was potty training her.

OR I may have been(wishing I was) talking to someone who was whining about something that in reality wasn't a big issue, they took wrong or just have to be wronged for attention...and then "Pull up your big girl panties" had a whole new meaning.

I think sometimes it's not what is said but how it is said. Well, not sometimes, almost all the time.

Of course big girl panties could be in reference to the size of my panties, but usually I call them my GRANNY PANTIES.

Why is big girl panties on my mind this morning???....

I haven't done potty training with my rugrats in a long time, though by the 4th child I have to say I was pretty good at it. Our youngest was potty trained shortly after turning a year old.

Sadly I wear big girl panties.......though they have gotten smaller lately....

And though there have been times lately that I've wanted to shout from the rooftops "PULL UP YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES" I have refrained.

Maybe it's because I wish so much that I didn't have big girl panties......or because I want so much to shout "Pull up your big girl panties" that it is on my mind.

Maybe it's because I refrain from telling someone to pull up their big girl panties that I shove the food in my mouth to keep the words from coming out which in return causes my rear to require big girl panties.

This is a question to ponder.....A question I probably really know the answer to already.

Isn't it funny how when we step back and take a good look at ourselves and our lives we see patterns. Patterns in others around us and patterns in ourselves. Like how I'll be the first to admit, when my stress level goes up so does my food intake. When my stress level sky rockets my food intakes stops all together.....but on that stress ride back down... the food intake sky rockets.

When I eat healthy I feel better and much like my diet, my life feels balanced and in control.

But when I eat these unhealthy foods because I'm stressed or not feeling good about myself it only increases the problem! The unhealthy food makes me feel like crud and then the weight the unhealthy food packs on makes me feel like crud about myself, which can OF COURSE only be fixed by eating more CRUD...right?

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!..... I'm talking to me here not you.... You probably already know this....and while my brain knows this my mouth hasn't figured it out completely yet.

My weight loss has been going EXCELLENT. I've been feeling better than ever and then I step off of the cliff. I free fall into a bowl full of junk food. I Waller around in it complaining about how I keep eating junk and I need to get back on track.......and then I eat more junk.

So what I'm really trying to tell myself is "PULL UP YOUR BIG GIRL PANTIES, PUT DOWN THE CHEESE AND PICK UP THE APPLE!"

The end.

Do you ever have the same pattern?