Thin Tastes Better ~ Step Six

Oct 22, 2010

** I know it's been some time since I've posted on the book. I have been reading it here and there though I have started reading a book on American history and it's 800+ pages! hehe I'm still working Dr. Gullo's steps to better my body and life. On with the sixth step!

Containment
 < "...unlike dieting, food control is a life management skill. It doesn't end on the fateful day you reach your target weight." (p.145)
I think that's a HUGE key issue for me. It's not just about reaching a goal, it's about changing habits and life!

< "The ability to contain these mistakes - to prevent minor slips from turning into major landslides...most important of the survival steps that set the winnders at weight loss apart from most dieters." (p. 145)
If I eat something I shouldn't, or don't exercise one day, I get back on the wagon and let it go. I can't change the past, no use on focusing in it. Move forward!

KEEP IT IN PERSPECTIVE!
< "...a far better response to an occasional slip up -- is to say nothing, do nothing." (p. 146)
Keep moving forward.

< "Don't berate yourself for your failure. Don't give up and eat everything else in sight. Don't try to make up for it by starving yourself later. Don't try to work off the extra calories by exercising obsessively." (p. 146)
Let it go, and get back on track. Feeling guilty and thinking you are a failure is NOT going to help. Leave this behind you.

BEWARE THE "TOMORROW" TRAP

< "I'll start  again tomorrow....And how many times did tomorrow remain just one day away -- when you'd be feeling a littler better, a little more motivated, a little less pressure, or depresed? That's the funny thing about "tomorrow"....it never seems to come." (p. 147)
< "... tomorrow people spend their time negotiaating with food, coming up with new and ever-more-creative rationalizations for putting control off until the next day." (p. 147)
< "If you slip up, you don't have the option of waiting until tomorrow to take back control. Even if you can't take back yoru mistake, you can stop yourself from making another one. Every food choice is another opportunity for exercising control and free will or for knuckling under to the old programming."  (p. 147 & 148)
I will NOT let myself be a "tomorrower" I take responsiblity for my actions and own them and will correct them.

< "..two most powerful words you can say to yourself to cut short a slip-up are STOP NOW!" (p. 148)

THE PERIODIC CHECKUP: USING THE NEW SCALE:

< "...you can periodically sound the level of your food control." (p. 149)
The New Scale:
Give yourself this quiz about once a week
1. Have I had (or thought of having any of my trigger foods or gotten into my triger situations?
2. Have I lost control of or abused any of my nontrigger foods?
3. Have I negotiated with food?
4. Have I thought like a fat person, glorifying food?
5. Have I maintained finger control?
6. Have I bought any of my trigger foods or kept them in the house?

The conclusion of step six tomorrow! It's good stuff!! Keep reading. You can do anything!

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