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August 21 - November 11, 2019
Uncertainty, doubt, and low self-esteem are the psychological cancers which fuel overeating behavior.
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.
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!
But the “Pig” (with a capital ‘P’) is an out-of-control eating machine which will destroy everything you love if you let it.
you must learn to treat the Pig with the same distaste and disrespect you’d feel for a BULLY.
allow as many leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables, green tea, beans, berries, clean water, etc., as you desire.
There’s NEVER a good reason to Binge.
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?
once you’re confident in your ability to control the pig, you can “go on a diet” and eliminate some of your caloric intake – but again – the best way to do this is in moderation.
When you care enough, tolerating any level of discomfort FOREVER is suddenly within your power.
Food abusers are actually supported by our culture to continue eating poorly.
To get healthier, they must make a choice to act against societal pressures and norms.
“I think I can” is the wrong philosophy. “I know I can” is the only attitude which succeeds with impulse control
Making a renewed effort to eat more constructively is evidence of strength, not weakness.
Even if you’ve repeatedly fallen down for years, continuing to get up until you succeed is a mark of fortitude and perseverance, not weakness.
Making a renewed vow of abstinence proves your strength.
You don’t have to worry about “later”, only the present, and it is always the present.
during the “legislative process”—the time during which you are re-examining your Food Plan—it’s best if you allow the previous rules to govern, however imperfect they may be. The Pig craves the anarchy which underlies a Binge.
After a serious analysis of what caused the mistake, promptly forgive yourself and make a 100% confident, renewed commitment to perfectly follow your Food Plan forever.
You are a fallible human being. You were practicing a particular Food Plan, but now practice is over. It’s time for the big leagues.
Always use the present moment to be healthy…and you’ll be fine.
if the game’s going to be rigged against me from the outset I’d rather just sit still and repeatedly smack myself in the head with a spatula.
One bite off of your carefully defined Food Plan IS a Binge…
whatever you do, don’t blur the line between being on vs. off your Food Plan because you’ll be creating a hole your Pig can run right through.
fruit is metabolized faster in the presence of fatty foods, not slower as was previously thought.
counting time beyond 90 days tells your Pig that sooner or later you will “collapse under the weight of all these days.” In contrast, when something’s been installed in your character as a lifelong habit, you’ll do it effortlessly without having to think of how long it’s been.
“The Hell with other people! There isn’t one single soul on this planet who can convince me to eat Pig Slop because I will NEVER eat Pig Slop again… and that’s that!”
If you give the Pig an inch it will try to take a mile and you know it.
Which is why NEVER means NEVER.
Giving the Pig 10% leeway only creates the opportunity for it to take more, and more, and more. And I can prove it: ➢ 90% today times 90% tomorrow brings you to 81% of your original goal. (90% x 90% = 81%)
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 get married saying “maybe this will work and maybe it won’t.” Either you feel strongly enough to commit 100% or you find yourself a different mate. ➢ You don’t get in a car saying “maybe I’ll get to my destination safely or maybe I’ll crash.” You commit 100% to avoiding other vehicles (and anything else not-so-good-for-humans-in-cars.)
100% commitment doesn’t degrade over time.
Commit 100% each and every day and you’ll be at 100% on the very last day of your life because 100% to the power of infinity is still 100%. 100% is the ONLY number which does this.
100% is really the ONLY option.
Even if you’ve repeatedly fallen down for years, continuing to get up until you succeed is a mark of strength, not weakness!
Renewed commitment is a mark of fortitude and perseverance. It’s something to be revered, not ridiculed!
Its ultimate aim is to obliterate your human ability to delay gratification and thoughtfully direct your behavior
If you fail to treat the Pig like an idiot it will treat YOU like an idiot!
Or is your body a sacred vessel meant to carry you forward and supply you with energy, peace, and happiness in order to accomplish your goals and live your dreams?
To paraphrase Wayne Dyer, if you’ve driven 50 miles on Lake Michigan in a motor boat and have a long straight wake that extends behind you in ONE direction only… this says NOTHING about your ability to turn the wheel.
See, Never Binge Again is about restoring your sense of free will and power. It’s a fiercely independent philosophy… You definitely CAN cage the Pig forever – but you’re the ONLY one who can.