July 23
I notice that I often blame my mood when the environment is playing a big role. Even with the mood thing going on, I would have stood a better chance if the environment had been controlled. Many people say that they don’t think it matters because they will just go out and get it. I challenge you to do a little experiment of how many times in a month you do go out (in your jammies) at 11 pm to get some junk versus how many times you do have it if it is right there. As Stephen Gullo, author of Thin Tastes Better and The Thin Commandments puts it, “Availability creates the craving.”
When a client is describing to me some regrettable overeating event, I will usually ask them to go back a little farther in the chain of events leading up to it to see if we can see how this unfolds. Often they will point to some emotional set up like, “Well, I had this fight with my son, spouse, etc.” Still, I will always ask, “And where were the cookies that you ate after this happened?” Invariably they will say, “Oh, on the counter”. Not that emotions don’t often kick us over the edge into “I don’t care”, but I think that there is a good chance that they would have eaten the cookies that were sitting on the counter eventually anyway whether they had the fight or not. Studies show that even people without an eating issue will do that. In any case, what harm would it do to jut keep tempting foods out of sight?
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