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June 1 - July 6, 2022
Uncertainty, doubt, and low self-esteem are the psychological cancers which fuel overeating behavior.
Therefore, we can confidently tell your Fat Thinking Self it no longer has the power to undermine your efforts with the fear of failure, guilt, and shame.
Identifying and caging your fat-thinking alter-ego is how YOU finally come to dominate all your food decisions and permanently reprogram yourself to think like a thin person. It’s how to disempower the destructive thinking which has, to this point, caused you so much trouble with food.
The Pig doesn’t care about the consequences to your health, body, well-being, or happiness — because the Pig must get its stuff at any cost! You want to love, learn, laugh, and live your life to the fullest. But the Pig lives only for that “one more” precious Binge.
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…
The Pig is NOT you, and deserves NO respect. Learn to hear its Squeals, then promptly ignore them. Am I a raving lunatic?
Similarly, people in our society feel they can’t live without the “pleasure buttons” provided by industrial food’s bags, boxes, and containers… and will fight to keep pressing these buttons at the dire expense of their health needs.
Then, the Addiction Treatment Industry (force #4) tells us we’re “powerless” over our addictions, we’ve got a chronic, progressive, mysterious disease against which there is often no human defense, and the best we can ever hope for is to abstain one day at a time. This message is readily absorbed by our culture to the point many of us believe we CAN’T give up our pleasure buttons even if we want to!
The ONLY way you’re ever going to succeed is if you accept 100% responsibility for every bite and swallow. You see, “trying out” professional diet plans is a type of dependency which sets the Pig up to retake control like this:
"Must’ve been a bad diet plan that nutritionist, doctor, or diet-guru recommended. You'll have to talk to them about it. Or maybe we need to find someone else to follow. Oh well, in the meantime we might as well just Binge. Yummy!!!" — Sincerely, Your Pig
To prevail, you need only dismiss this as Pig Squeal. Don’t argue with the Pig. Don’t try to win a rational debate. You don’t need to, because the Pig is powerless to do anything without your consent.
The very fact it talks at all proves its only hope is to convince you with its lies.
Last, if you find you’re repeatedly struggling to find the right condition for a particular food, drink, or behavior, the odds are you’d do better putting it into the ‘Never’ section. (This paragraph can save you years of painful struggle so you might want to re-read it)
The Pig is NOT You. It is a conceptual, animalistic entity which misdirects your survival drive towards food behaviors that do NOT serve your best interests, and causes you to keep changing your mind about your commitments.
A Binge = even one bite and/or swallow outside of your Food Plan.
Pig Slop is anything which violates your Food Plan even 0.00001%. Bingeing = putting even the tiniest bit of Pig Slop in your mouth.
From now on when the Pig Squeals for its Slop, you will just ignore it. Only Pigs eat Slop and you are not a Pig, so there’s never any reason to engage or debate the Pig about the idea.
Now, other people tell me that even though they understand and agree with the definitions above, the cravings are too uncomfortable to tolerate. These people don’t realize the Pig has convinced them of yet another insane proposition: That one must be comfortable at all times, and that Bingeing is the ONLY way to alleviate discomfort.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE COMFORTABLE TO STICK TO YOUR FOOD PLAN (FOREVER!)
But if we’re going to hold our Food Plans sacred, there will be times we feel uncomfortable. So be it. Our Pigs must know we will NEVER consider these times Bingeing opportunities.
When you care enough, tolerating any level of discomfort FOREVER is suddenly within your power. No matter how strong a craving the Pig might throw at you.
You can keep the discomfort associated with cravings to a minimum by staying relatively warm and hydrated, and consuming regular, consistent, healthy meals.
Acknowledge the difference between killing a craving and “getting high” with the hyper-palatable treats our modern food industry has engineered to overstimulate our brain’s reward centers. Your Pig wants to get high with food, but your goal is only to eliminate the craving so you can go on with your day.
Beyond this, the prevalence of disease before modern medicine made being too thin much more of a risk than being too fat.
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!)
Remember: All the Pig wants is one more Food High, and it will use the very fabric of society to back up its claims. It believes you will literally die if you don’t Binge on some Slop, pronto!
Contentment is a solid, repeatable state which builds sustainable confidence, and a rational and responsible sense of well-being.
Mania is an unstable, temporary pleasure which becomes progressively more difficult to repeat.
Your Pig has Cravings… you don’t. And you will NEVER eat Pig Slop again.
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. Kill Cravings, don’t get high with food. End of story.
This one Squeal causes more damage than virtually any other because it allows a small Binge to snowball into a full-blown Food Orgy, and seriously undermines confidence in your ability to control yourself. This Squeal is wholly responsible for the “Screw it, you already blew it, just start again tomorrow” mentality. Or, in shorthand, the “F___ It” Squeal. Learning to recognize and ignore the F__ It Squeal is, without a doubt, the most significant benefit of the Never Binge Again approach.
“I promise to love and be faithful…until an inevitable moment of weakness. I promise I’ll do the best I can, but nobody’s perfect and there sure are a lot of attractive people out there. I’m 80% sure I can be faithful forever, but anyone who promises you 100% is an unrealistic liar. A ‘pretty good’ promise is the best anyone can ever hope for, because you can’t possibly know who you’re going to sleep with next year, or in ten years. Just being honest. You want me to be honest, right?” – The Vow Your Pig Would Make at Its Wedding!
You wouldn’t accept anything less than a 100% commitment, because perfection is the essence of commitment…all notions of human frailty aside.
Making a renewed vow of abstinence proves your strength.
just got out, so of course I’ll get out again.”→ It’s extremely unusual for prisoners to break out of jail twice unless the jailor consciously and purposefully leaves the door open.
The Pig craves the anarchy which underlies a Binge.
And all you need to do to never binge again is never binge again.
Why not draw clear boundaries around the bullseye so you can concentrate all your energy—indeed the very essence of your being—on hitting it?
But the moment you realize you’ve done it you just stop and get right back on track. “We’re off the Plan so let’s have a Binging Party” is pure Pig Squeal to be ignored…
Just like there’s no reason to publicly declare how long it’s been since you last ran a red light, there’s NO reason to publicly declare the number of days since you last Binged.
You don’t have to FEEL 100% confident. You only have to intellectually believe your Food Plan represents your best thinking at a time when you were of sound mind and were motivated enough to put it all in black and white. Then you DECLARE yourself 100% confident and DECLARE all other thoughts and feelings as belonging to the Pig so you can reject them. And you just take the leap!
But if you decide to continue eating donuts, you will deprive yourself of everything associated with never eating donuts again including (a) acquiring the body of your dreams (or something very close); (b) the “lightness of being” associated with life without all that extra weight; (c) the energy associated with more regular, healthy nourishment; (d) knowing what it’s like to have consistent blood sugar levels and to live without sugar crashes; (e) the confidence which comes from knowing you have the power to NEVER eat a donut again; (f) years near the end of your life which were meant to be
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Here’s another way to look at it: 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?
When others tempt you with food, just quietly say to yourself “That’s Pig Slop…and I Will Never Eat Pig Slop Again!”
It’s important to reiterate this is not something you share out loud. Your Food Plan is a very private and personal matter. You don’t need to debate, justify, and/or explain it to another soul in the universe.
By extension, other people’s Food Plans are also none of your business. Telling someone else they’re eating Pig Slop is a gre...
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Only our own Pigs are truly knowable. To mess with other people’s Pigs without their permission is an intrusive type of mind-reading.
In the end, YOU assume full responsibility for your Food Plan, no matter how well informed you are by experts. After all, it’s your body.
Therefore, when others are tempting your Pig in a social dining environment just look at the treat and say to yourself “That is Pig Slop. And I Will Never Eat Pig Slop Again!” If the Pig keeps Squealing then give it the middle finger and coldly say “That’s just how it is, Pig!!!”
