Morning Musings

I love my quiet time in the morning.

Seems I wake up, more often than not with the FID’s.  That’s:  Fear Of Impending Doom.  I don’t know why I seem to “come to” most days in this state, but, thank God (or Good Orderly Direction, or Source, or Universal Intelligence, or whatever you want to call it), I do know what to do about it. Continue reading “Morning Musings” »


July 8

So, when I am visiting a restaurant for the first time, I try to ask myself, “Do I need yet another place in my repertoire where I have made it really hard to eat well?  I don’t know about you, […]

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July 7

When I go someplace new or try a new restaurant for the first time, I am aware that I am programming a future history of associations with that place.  I don’t even have to be trying, but it is going […]

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July 6

Our brain makes these sort of desktop shortcuts of associations, especially with smells and foods. We now know that you actually develop physical brain pathways that cement these new associations.  So when I am establishing a new restaurant option, it […]

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July 5

And I think we often don’t give enough importance to the bigger picture: creating associations in our minds with certain places and foods.  We start out a blank slate about a new place.  We chose what to write on that […]

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July 4

“I don’t care” usually happens at the end of a long chain of stimulus – often in the face of the food stimulus itself; too late to stop the train. Another case in point:  Another client could trace a bread […]

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July 3

I have never seen anyone with a weight history be able to indefinitely manage food stimulus without eventually caving.  I have seen fellow strugglers (not me) go amazingly long times on psych and willpower for sure, but never indefinitely.  Something […]

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