Whose diet is it anyway?
Lesson 5
Whose Diet Is It Anyway?
While assessing your habits and learning to control them is a difficult task, the rewards of accepting personal responsibility are well worth the effort. Concentrate on developing a positive attitude and keep the value of food in perspective.
Have You Ever Said...
I have to entertain in my job or I am big boned or I do not have time to exercise. Blaming outside forces only delays positive solutions to your weight problem by shifting the focus of blame to those uncontrollable factors around you.
I do not have any will power.
Well, if you do not have control, who does? It is highly unlikely that your refrigerator calls you when you are depressed to comfort you with food. Willpower is not an inborn trait, it is a skill that needs development and practice. You have the ability to control your responses to foods; you have just convinced yourself you do not.
My diets never work.
What you are really saying is that you are unworthy of another try. The fact that you have lost and regained hundreds of pounds does not mean that you are doomed to failure this time. The HM&N program has no place for negativism, we focus only on success and positive experience.
My counselor will make me lose weight or I need a diet to make me thin or This supplement is all I really need to drop these extra pounds?
These rationalizations conveniently remove the responsibility for weight loss from the dieter. As you accept personal responsibility for all of your life, you will recognize these crutches for what they are, impediments to success. Focus on what you can do to control your behavior.
Tools For Developing a Sense of Personal Responsibility
STOP.
As soon as you feel the urge to eat something decadent, count to twenty. This monetary pause allows you time to exercise your newly learned willpower.
THINK. Give your defenses a chance to kick in. You have learned strategies for handling food cues, now is the time to use them. Try to match a coping strategy with your current situation.
LISTEN.
To yourself , not the food. Talk yourself out of it. Even if you have given in to the cue and are on the way to burger heaven, pull the car off the road and tell yourself that this is your diet; you are in control. Determine whether the seduction of this one hamburger is worth the consequences.
ESTABLISH SITUATIONAL CONTROLS.
Establishing situational controls means removing the temptation before it becomes too strong to resist. The best situational control is not having your temptress in the house. Once you have discovered your weakness, respect your inability to resist. Do not be a martyr! Be good to
yourself.
Gene C.
Whose Diet Is It Anyway?
While assessing your habits and learning to control them is a difficult task, the rewards of accepting personal responsibility are well worth the effort. Concentrate on developing a positive attitude and keep the value of food in perspective.
Have You Ever Said...
I have to entertain in my job or I am big boned or I do not have time to exercise. Blaming outside forces only delays positive solutions to your weight problem by shifting the focus of blame to those uncontrollable factors around you.
I do not have any will power.
Well, if you do not have control, who does? It is highly unlikely that your refrigerator calls you when you are depressed to comfort you with food. Willpower is not an inborn trait, it is a skill that needs development and practice. You have the ability to control your responses to foods; you have just convinced yourself you do not.
My diets never work.
What you are really saying is that you are unworthy of another try. The fact that you have lost and regained hundreds of pounds does not mean that you are doomed to failure this time. The HM&N program has no place for negativism, we focus only on success and positive experience.
My counselor will make me lose weight or I need a diet to make me thin or This supplement is all I really need to drop these extra pounds?
These rationalizations conveniently remove the responsibility for weight loss from the dieter. As you accept personal responsibility for all of your life, you will recognize these crutches for what they are, impediments to success. Focus on what you can do to control your behavior.
Tools For Developing a Sense of Personal Responsibility
STOP.
As soon as you feel the urge to eat something decadent, count to twenty. This monetary pause allows you time to exercise your newly learned willpower.
THINK. Give your defenses a chance to kick in. You have learned strategies for handling food cues, now is the time to use them. Try to match a coping strategy with your current situation.
LISTEN.
To yourself , not the food. Talk yourself out of it. Even if you have given in to the cue and are on the way to burger heaven, pull the car off the road and tell yourself that this is your diet; you are in control. Determine whether the seduction of this one hamburger is worth the consequences.
ESTABLISH SITUATIONAL CONTROLS.
Establishing situational controls means removing the temptation before it becomes too strong to resist. The best situational control is not having your temptress in the house. Once you have discovered your weakness, respect your inability to resist. Do not be a martyr! Be good to
yourself.
Gene C.
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