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November 13 - December 8, 2017
Another helpful analogy is contentment (killing the Craving) vs. mania (the Food High).
Contentment is a gentle state of mind available to anyone who seeks it. It’s not
something people feel compelled to get up on the rooftops and shout about. Contentment is a solid, repeatable state which builds sustainable confidence, and a r...
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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.
BEFORE A BINGE: Your Food Plan is 100% perfect and final. You Will NEVER Make a Mistake Again. You Will NEVER Binge Again! AFTER A BINGE: You are a fallible human being. You were practicing a set of Food Rules, but that practice is now over and it’s time for the big leagues. Analyze what went wrong, adjust your Food Plan if necessary, and THEN declare it perfect and final. You may have found it necessary to divorce the old Food Plan (or simply failed to hear the Pig’s Squeals about it), but now you’re a changed person, ready to marry once again. You Will NEVER Binge Again!
PERFECTION IS ESSENCE OF COMMITMENT Allowing ANY possibility you will ever Binge again changes the commitment from “I will” to “I’ll try”…which is NO commitment at all.
To Never Binge Again and permanently stick to our commitments we must recognize any and all insecurity as 100% Pig Squeal.
By definition, any and all doubt about your commitment to Never Binge Again is Pig Squeal.
Analyze what happened, adjust your sails, and then NEVER Binge again.
the first thing to do after a Binge
is to examine what happened.
Review your Food Plan with an eye towards determining whether you believe each Food Rule within it is...
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More often than not, Binges occur simply because you failed to hear the Pig’s Squeal, NOT because of a problem with the Food Plan itself. The Pig slipped in a few destructive words which you mistook for your own thinking, and you acted upon them.
Making a renewed effort to eat more constructively is evidence of strength, not weakness.
A weak person just listens to the Pig and gives up. A strong one resolves to lock the Pig back in its cage forever.
Since you have full control over what you buy, open, take out of the package with your hands, put in your mouth, chew, and swallow, you will always have the 100% ability to keep the Pig in its cage.
what if YOU (not your Pig!) believe you’ve erroneously committed to a Plan which is too restrictive and leaves you
uncomfortably hungry and/or missing key nutrients?
(a) be sure you’ve given yourself some time for the Pig Slop you’ve ingested to leave your system because it’s hard to hear the Pig’s Squeals when your body’s full of Pig Slop; (b) Save a dated copy of your complete Food Plan before making any changes so you can roll it back later if you find the Pig has influenced the changes; (c) Take some serious, reflective time to “think on paper” about the specific changes you’re planning to make; (d) Consider whether any previous version of your Food Plan was better.
Never can be a LOT easier than sometimes!
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.
all you need to do to never binge again is never binge again.
the more intelligent thing to do at that juncture is recognize “We already blew it so we might as well just Binge our faces off for the rest of the day” as a big hairy Pig Squeal in and of itself… And just put the Pig back in its Cage and resume… No matter what happened five seconds, five minutes, five months, or five years ago!
Always use the present moment to be healthy…
I’m going to aim at MY personal Food Bullseye… And I’m going to know EXACTLY where it is. If I screw up, I’m just going to recommit again…
it’s helpful to be able to look back and say “I’m catching the Binges sooner and doing a lot less damage with them.” Indeed the first thing most people notice is the disappearance of All Out Food Orgies.
fruit is metabolized faster in the presence of fatty foods, not slower as was previously thought.
Upon Serious Reflection You May Change Your Food Plan At Any Time…But Your Pig Never Will Again!!
Pigs want immediate change for immediate pleasure.
People use their intellect and delay-of-gratification abilities to make wiser, healthier choices.
This is a life-long arrangement and you will Never Binge Again.
your Food Plan and how long you’ve been on it is nobody’s business but your own. You’ve made a permanent decision to become a law-abiding, non-Bingeing citizen.
“What might the Pig be trying to get me to believe so I will Binge? What’s it saying?” Be specific! Just articulate the Squeal to inoculate yourself in the future. Put it in a Squeal Journal if it helps. Pig Squeal always loses its power in the light of day.
The question is, do you feel 100%, completely and totally secure in your Food Plan. More importantly, are you 100% confident in your ability to comply with it forever?
There are actually TWO types of deprivation: (1) What you deprive yourself of by NOT having something and; (2) what you deprive yourself of by having it.
What will you deprive yourself of if you continue to embrace the particular food (or behavior) vs. assigning it to your Pig’s trough?
Whole, unprocessed, organic foods are the only genuinely healthy nourishment for humans.
The essence of a Pig-hijacked survival drive is the belief your Binge food is a fundamental requirement for life itself.
None of us seem to know who we are until we see it reflected in someone else’s eyes. As if self-worth can only derive from the mirror of other people’s thoughts, feelings, and opinions. While it may be true we can’t avoid having our self-concept influenced by our relationships, your Pig takes this to a ludicrous extreme. It wants you to believe the slightest instability in your loved ones’ opinions about you and/or your Food Plan will cause you to Binge.
If they push back when you say “no thank you” to something and you need more ammunition to make them stop annoying you, you can always say it’s for medical reasons. The Food Plan you’ve adopted will always have something to do with your physiological well-being, so you’ll always have medical reasons for maintaining it—
people can and will accept the notion of a Pig after they’ve taken a particularly strong beating by their food struggles. They have to really want results, and feel a little desperate to find a different solution7.
Regardless of what other people in your life do, just Never Binge Again!
People say—and our culture willingly accepts—there are diseases which make some of us powerless over alcohol, drugs, gambling, infidelity, sexual perversions, and pretty much anything else that feels good8.
“It’s not our fault and it’s not a moral issue” says the current chorus of voices from the addiction treatment industry. “And relapse is an inevitable part of recovery” Poppycock.
THE VERY FACT THE PIG TALKS PROVES YOU ARE ITS JAILOR.
The Pig is a weak, single-minded creature which doesn’t care about anything besides Bingeing. It will extract any price from your life to get at its Slop, but it’s completely powerless to do so unless you listen to its Squeals.
A Binge is ALWAYS a big deal.
When you accept 90% compliance, you’re depriving yourself of the immense confidence and peace of mind which only 100% can bring.
You are 100% capable of making an irreversible decision, regardless of how many times you may have reversed the same decision before.
A Binge is defined as even one bite or swallow outside of your carefully constructed Food Plan.
