April 3
Distressingly enough however, many mornings I still wake up defaulted back to the original factory settings. My mission (should I choose to accept it) is to reprogram the system…yet again. I am happy to say that lo these many years later, those new settings do hold for long periods of time. In fact, I often don’t even notice that I am deliberately flipping those good angel switches – like when you can’t remember if you turned the coffee maker off – so natural has it become. I don’t want to get too excited about this, but those behaviors almost sometimes feel like they are now the real me.
So, the greatest kernel of hope I can pass along to anyone is that you don’t have to “get over” your issue with food in order to be able to manage it – just like you don’t have to be a natural Mozart to be able to play the piano. But you are probably going to have to work a lot harder at it than he did, and you may not relish the practicing.
As I look these over, I realize that they fall into a few specific categories over and over again:
- Telling Myself the Truth – about who I really am, and what I can expect of myself, like it or not.
- Setting the Stage, Pre-Paving the Way – grabbing a hold of and taking action from my motivated self.
- Preserving Momentum – not allowing it to be innocently eroded over little things I could have easily done differently.
- Delaying Gratification – not letting Pandora out of the box too soon (aka “the bribery form of weight management”).
- Staying Accountable – for whatever I actually do despite my best intentions and planning.
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