February 17
Roadblock: I can stay committed to eating well if…I just never have to reconcile the caloric bills I already incurred. I used to start over hundreds of times, and never put it together it that I was wearing all those unreconciled last suppers. The register doesn’t zero out. Try telling this to your credit card company! “Please excuse last month’s charges. I was having a really stressful time…” Diets are all basically paying back a lot of accumulated caloric debt – all at one time.
Safe detour: There isn’t one. Learn to pay as you go. It is the same bill whether you pay as you go or let it accumulate it and pay it all back at a later date. At least if you pay as you go, you never wear all that fat in between. If you let it accumulate and then diet it off again, you are overweight going up and overweight going down. And in the end, you are paying the same bill. Paying the bill has been the only consequence painful enough to get me to work harder at not incurring the debt in the first place. Clearly being overweight isn’t bad enough for many of us. If it were, we’d have been reconciling the debt rather than wearing it. Denying myself is the thing I don’t want to do to begin with. I need to bring home the point to myself that my options are only these: I can deny myself now (and pay as I go) or I can denying myself later (by dieting).
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