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January 25 - February 4, 2024
This is about accomplishing all your goals and dreams with more confidence and security than you ever thought possible.
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The problem with loving, feeding, and nurturing ALL your thoughts and feelings is certain impulses are too strong to restrain when they’re given even a tiny opening.
Interrupting and disempowering the thoughts which sustain your bingeing and overeating is not a game of mercy, it’s a game of unbreakable control and domination.
Your Pig™ is NOT you!
When it comes down to it, either you or the Pig is going to suffer, and it’s NOT going to be you!
Your Inner Pig™ is responsible for a LOT of the misery in your life…
It’s the Pig that’s drained your success, health, and happiness…
The ONLY way you’re ever going to succeed is if you accept 100% responsibility for every bite and swallow.
If you forget to brush your teeth one morning, are you obligated to pick up a hammer and bang them all out? It’s ridiculous.
Pig Squeal may seem rational on its surface, but it never is. (Never —as in never, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER!)
Never, Always, Unrestricted, and Conditional. Four beautifully simple categories to create your own personal, self-contained legal system for governing your eating from here on.
The question isn’t whether you’ll have freedom of choice vs becoming enslaved to a Food Plan. The question is, will you choose to live your life as a slave to the Pig’s impulses and demands, or put the animal in its cage so you can exercise your human freedom?
Besides, you already have a Food Plan whether you write it down or not! It’s impossible to function each day without making decisions about what you’ll never, always, sometimes, and conditionally eat.
Since you already DO have a Food Plan, I’m only suggesting you take control. Make it conscious and evaluate it with the full force of your intellect. Write the darn thing down!
WARNING – DON’T CREATE AN OVERLY RESTRICTIVE FOOD PLAN
Please, be safe!
The one and only thing you need to do to ensure you do not Binge is ‘not Binge!’ Mind blowing, isn’t it?
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE COMFORTABLE TO STICK TO YOUR FOOD PLAN (FOREVER!)
When you care enough, tolerating any level of discomfort FOREVER is suddenly within your power.
You can keep the discomfort associated with cravings to a minimum by staying relatively warm and hydrated, and consuming regular, consistent, healthy meals.
Knowledge is power.
In short, our society actually WANTS you to get high with food. The world around you is mostly on your Pig’s side. To defeat the Pig, you must become willing to face this situation. (Once you do, it’s easy!)
Be willing to tolerate ANY level of discomfort to keep to your solemn vow—but stay nourished, warm, and hydrated to keep this to a minimum.
Never can be a LOT easier than sometimes!
And all you need to do to never binge again is never binge again.
No reason for an archer to shoot all the rest of his (or her) arrows off to the side of the target just because they missed the bulls eye once …
And no reason to repeatedly touch a hot stove because you accidently burned yourself once!
Always use the present moment to be healthy…and...
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If I screw up, I’m just going to recommit again…
Society expects you to stop at every red light no matter what you did at the last one.
Making a mistake doesn’t invalidate the law.
Geneen Roth)
Love her!!
Every day we make choices between “Live Fast and Die Young[2]” vs. “Live Slow and Enjoy the Long Ride.” Do you want to borrow life from tomorrow to live faster today, or forgo some short term pleasure to achieve a better long term outcome?
Whole, unprocessed, organic foods are the only genuinely healthy nourishment for humans. Everything else is a man-made refinement for taste, convenience, or enjoyment. Everything.
None of us seem to know who we are until we see it reflected in someone else’s eyes.
I can tell you mind-reading is NO easy feat. Just when I think I know what someone’s thinking, I manage to hold off and listen a little while longer and discover I was actually way off the mark. Even with people I’ve known for years.
Not exactly related to bingeing but a nice reminder to be kinder and more understanding.
Remember, one of the biggest problems in food addiction is dependency, which provides the perfect excuse for a Binge:
See, when it comes to eating, other people aren’t “Hell”, they’re just a minor annoyance.
“A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” – Samuel Butler)
If you give the Pig an inch it will try to take a mile and you know it.
The Pig will always do its best to turn “just one bite” into a week-long Food Orgy.
Even if you’ve repeatedly fallen down for years, continuing to get up until you succeed is a mark of strength, not weakness!
But the sudden idea to have a controlled departure is nothing more than a plan to Binge.
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" - Taylor Swift
The continually refined use of language is what allows humans to coordinate and control their impulses so they can participate in a civil society. Language is what separates us from the apes and allows us to articulate the laws which make it possible to live amongst one another.
Language is the very fabric of our civilization.
Because you’re NOT a bank robber.
Poor bank robbers trying to stop bingeing...
Always use the present moment to be healthy.
Never Binge Again, all you really need to do is Never Binge Now! Since it’s ALWAYS now, never binging now translates to never binging forever.
Freedom isn’t free! It’s only for those willing to pay the price.
You do NOT need to know why you Binge. You just need to stop.
