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June 1 - July 6, 2022
It’s best if you can get them to read the book (always available at www.NeverBingeAgain.com) before going into too much detail, or their Pig may talk them out of reading it. Thereafter, if they seem intrigued and give you permission, it can be very gratifying to help them identify their Pig’s Squeals… But if they seem to be rejecting the Never Binge Again philosophy there’s really not much you can do. In these cases it’s best to say “I’m sorry it wasn’t helpful” and politely change the topic.
Dominating your own Pig and teaching others to do the same are two entirely different matters. The ideas in Never Binge Again are NOT very contagious… most people unfortunately need to have been beaten down fairly seriously by their Pigs before they will be open to them.
A good portion of our society believes there’s a mysterious disease which makes certain people completely powerless over food, alcohol, drugs, and other toxic pleasures.
Here’s the thing: Human beings are perfectly capable of abstaining from toxic pleasure. Pigs are powerless over people, NOT the other way around. And the most glaring evidence of this is that the Pig bothers to talk at all.
If all it wants is Pig Slop, why not just quietly go and take some? Why must it say anything at all? Because the Pig CAN’T feed itself, that’s why!
THE VERY FACT THE PIG TALKS PROVES YOU ARE ITS JAILOR. IT’S COMPLETELY POWERLESS TO FEED ITSELF, SO IT’S ONLY HOPE FOR RELEASE IS VERBALLY CONVINCING YOU TO LET IT OUT OF PRISON.
The Pig is powerless and you are its master. So turn a deaf ear and just Never Binge Again!
90% is Pig Squeal, plain and simple. 100% is the ONLY possible solution.
Anything less than a 100% commitment is nothing more than the Pig’s plan to Binge.
You don’t drink clean water 90% of the time, but have yourself a big old swig from the toilet the other 10%.
A 100% committed athlete rises to the top of their game even though they may only edge out their competition by a nose on any particular day. Their slight edge day after day after day adds up.
You must be willing to pay ANY price to achieve 100% compliance with your own Food Plan… and your Pig must know this with certainty.
Remember, it’s YOU who wrote the Food Plan in the first place! What’s the point of not 100% complying with yourself? Isn’t the whole point of freedom being able to chart ANY course you want and successfully reach the destination?
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 Pig is not “just” a language gimmick, it’s an incredibly effective language gimmick! In fact, it may be the ONLY way to thoroughly separate your thin-thinking-self from the fat thoughts and feelings which have sabotaged your efforts until this point in life.
There are some projects meant to be taken to completion, and achieving your health and fitness goals should be very high—if not first!—on that list.
And it’s a MUCH smaller hurdle than your Pig would have you believe! (As long as you don’t reinforce it by eating the Slop… if you do, the clock unfortunately resets.)
Well, the thing is, your Pig does NOT have a time machine, and the ONLY time you can ever Binge is right now. At all points in the future the will always be NOW. Even as you are reading this and coming to the period in this sentence, the time is once again NOW. And again, now is once again upon us. And NOW too. The reason this is important is because to 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.
Please note “I Never Binge Now Therefore I Will Never Binge Again” is MUCH different than the “One Day at a Time” philosophy of the 12 step programs. “One Day at a Time” implies “I may binge tomorrow – all I can control is today”… and stems from a philosophy of powerlessness…
Whereas “I Never Binge Now Therefore I Will Never Binge Again” stems from a philosophy of power.
Jim Rohn said “A Life of Discipline is Better Than a Life of Regret,” but your Pig vehemently disagrees. It wants you to think discipline restricts your freedom, when precisely the opposite is true.
The real question is whether you’ll choose a life of discipline versus a life of regret.
The notion that emotional upset causes Binges is actually harmful, because it gives the Pig license to keep Bingeing until the upset is over and/or fully understood.
Choose to stand for the domination of the human spirit over our animal nature so you can accomplish your dreams and pass your experiences on to your loved ones.
In fact, adversity can result in both a strength of character AND a determined persistence to right the wrongs one has experienced.
Holding onto guilt and shame for a well-analyzed and corrected mistake is the Pig’s way of doing penance in advance for its plan to Binge again.
But it’s more accurate and helpful to say we consciously decided not to think about what we were doing during a Binge. We turned a blind eye so the Pig could have its Slop. We did NOT go into a temporary coma while the Pig did its thing!
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