Nutritional Sabotage
"Oh what's the use, I just ate something that's not on the list I've failed I give up!"
What follows is complete or incomplete resignment to accept whatever it is that we are trying to change as not important Say we want to stop eating foods such as chocolate or drinking coffee Well as soon as we eat the chocolate or drink the coffee our resolution may be snuffed out
There are perhaps some easy answers to eating behaviors and the mental event of resignment
1 Realize change is not an all or none phenomenon
2 There is no perfection in this journey; recognizing that it is a process not an end
3 There is no timeline for the change to take place!
4 Change requires conscious effort, not relying on the automatics that we use often
We get in the car and drive, listening to the radio, talking on the cell, talking to a friend who we pick up, all the while driving the car has become an automatic activity not conscious
This is to underscore that many activities we do in life, such as brushing our teeth, washing the dishes, etc become unconscious
Until we make a process conscious, that is, thinking about what we want to change all the time, the effort will be sabotaged by our lack of consciousness about the change we want to bring about
So in using the nutritional formats at foodsheal.com we begin to transition from what we used to do automatically and what we want to change
Seth Godin has a wonderful blog today on sabotage that has great relevance for us who are interested in change We have met the enemy and it's us!
Have you ever been unsuccessful about something you attempted? What did you learn as a result? Did it help you become successful because of what you learned? Did that process require you to become conscious of what you wanted to change?
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
