February 12
Roadblock: I can stay committed to eating well if…I can just leave all these tempting things my environment (that I need to keep here for my husband, my kids, potential guests, my grandchildren etc.).
Safe detour: If it doesn’t call my name, probably fine, but how times have I ended up eating things that were supposedly safe simply because there wasn’t anything else available and I was already on a roll? Matthew (a doctor) has the Pharmaceutical Reps set the free lunches up in a section of the office that he regularly doesn’t frequent, and makes it a point to go out to lunch that day. Annie has the kid’s junk for school in a drawer in a dresser in her basement. Each kid has their own drawer and fetches their own snack pack for the lunches she makes for them each day. Bill has his daughter put the goodies she loves baking into an opaque container on top of the refrigerator, out of his line of sight. Audrey has her kids pick up individual snacks on the way home from school each day and keeps nothing open in the house.
**Note: I have never in 18 years of being in practice actually seen anyone succeed at indefinitely denying themselves in an environment that has their problem foods right under their nose. Ideally an environment that would be failsafe on my worst day works best – not safe only “when my head is in the right place”.
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