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January 26 - January 30, 2019
Like little Sarah confidently pedaling up that big hill, you’ll learn to put even the remotest possibility of failure out of your mind…even if you DO at times fail on any given attempt. If you make a mistake, you’ll just pick yourself up and get back to pedaling in the right direction, speaking kindly to yourself the whole time.
Hardly anyone succeeds their first try, those who worked their way to a healthy relationship with food have failed countless times. The only difference between them and those who don’t have a good relationship with food is that they got back up and tried again, over and over and over.
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 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.
I had a hard time believing this when I first heard it. I always thought that you should try to love ALL of yourself, but it makes sense. You wouldn’t nurture horrible thoughts such as suicide, why is this an exception?
the act of recovering from Bingeing, serious overeating, and/or simply learning to stick to a diet is NOT like nurturing a wounded animal back to health. It’s more like capturing and caging an aggressive Doberman Pincher. This dog must respect and obey you—or it will have its way every time!
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.
‘The Pig’.
I don’t want to call it “the pig” since pigs are cute. So I’ll call it the glutton, a tall, thin, demon with ram like horns, sharp rotting teeth and forked tongue. His lanky body a deep red and his horns and teeth, which are clearly bone that weren’t his, are a sickening yellow. His eyes are a black abyss, like those of a shark attacking its prey. Lacking any personality, it lives to eat. That’s where it gets it’s false sense of happiness. It eats and eats and eats, but never gets anywhere. No amount of nurturing or mercy will help it. It will forever be hungry.
The Pig doesn’t care about the consequences to your health, body, well-being,
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.
You can plan, organize, and accomplish amazing things. But the Pig sees life as one big food party and spends all its time and ener...
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The Pig is NOT you, and deserves NO respect. Learn to hear its Squeals, then promptly ignore them.
Big Food puts as much starch, sugar, oil, sodium, fat, excitotoxins, and other chemical stimulants into a small space as they legally can… Then they package it up to APPEAR healthy and irresistible… Big Advertising makes us believe it… Big Addiction Treatment says we’re powerless to resist… And we walk around thinking we’re just supposed to love ourselves more when the urge hits!
The Pig hates rules and will do its very best to destroy the integrity of any you may set. This is why you must take 100% ownership and responsibility. It’s also why every rule—and your Food Plan as a whole—must be set with 100% clarity. Otherwise, the Pig can use “fuzzy lines” and “diets you’re just trying out for a while” to mercilessly assail your integrity and confidence.
"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
“Wait just a minute here! This book itself is a diet book too, isn’t it? After all Glenn’s just another guy trying to make a buck with weight-loss advice. So go ahead, try it out for a while. Sooner or later you’ll cheat
like you always do, and then I’ll be free to Binge again. Why wait? Let’s do it NOW! Yippee!!!” – Sincerely, Your Pig
“You can’t say ALWAYS! How could you ever know that? One morning you’ll wake up and forget. Or maybe you just won’t feel like it. Some mornings you simply won’t have the time. Then you’ll have broken your silly vow. These ridiculous rules obviously don’t matter since you can’t possibly stick with them. We might as well just go BINGE!” —Sincerely, Your Pig
“Listen little Bobby, there’s NO hope of remembering to brush your teeth, tie your shoes, and get dressed all by yourself every day. Just get that idea out of your head. You might as well just give up and accept you’ll be a dependent little child the rest of your life… no matter what the big boys do.”
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)
Never, Always, Unrestricted, and Conditional.
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!
1. Remember: Consuming even the most minuscule amount of Pig Slop —anything even remotely off of
your well defined Food Plan—is, by definition, a Binge. 2. Recall: All thoughts and feelings which suggest you may ever Binge again are Pig Squeal. Therefore you do not have cravings, your Pig does. ALL cravings are Pig Squeal. 3. Reiterate: So just quietly but proudly say to yourself1 “I will never eat Pig Slop again!” (Some people like to add “And I shall remain 100% committed to my Food Plan until my dying breath”) Then go on with your day, ignoring the Squeals.
You Will Never Eat Pig Slop Again!
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. No matter how strong a craving the Pig might throw at you.
”You cheated! You cheated! You cheated!!! See? Your Food Plan doesn’t mean anything at all! The Hell with this ‘Never Binge Again!’ stuff. You’ll have to try something else to control me. YOU’VE BLOWN IT SO I AM NOW TOTALLY FREE TO BINGE AT WILL FROM NOW ON!!! Yippeeee!!! Yippeeee!!! Party Time!!! Let’s Do It!!!!” – Your Pig
