Morning Musings: January 21
Nutritional Basics – I have to feed myself – and regularly. Although I had considered myself to be an Olympic level starver, truly my best skill, I have finally come to figure out that I will pay a price in […]
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Nutritional Basics – I have to feed myself – and regularly. Although I had considered myself to be an Olympic level starver, truly my best skill, I have finally come to figure out that I will pay a price in […]
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Behavioral Basics – When I get too far off the beam, I need to go back to the basics. No matter that I think I should be smarter and more committed, have more willpower than I do, that I am […]
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Behavioral Basics – I have to stop doing the actions that sabotage me instead of just hoping that they won’t. One of the dangers of self-help books for me was being under the impression that, if I could just find […]
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Behavioral Basics – I have to keep doing the things that inspire me. The constant environmental stimulus wears me down and I seem to forget why I thought this was so important. I listen to and read lots of nutrition […]
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Behavioral Basics – Dr. Phil said/wrote somewhere “choose the behavior, choose the consequence”. In the context in which he wrote/said it, he didn’t mean the obvious, like…eat too many brownies – get fat. He meant the less obvious, like fail […]
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Behavioral Basics – I have to practice acting on the beginning of the behavior chain. It isn’t enough to just recognize it. If that is all I do, likely I will recognize myself doing the exact same thing with the […]
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Behavioral Basics – I have to take action to help myself. I have to do something. If nothing changes, nothing changes. I found great comfort recently when a friend said that in nautical terms, just one degree of change can […]
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Intellectual Basics – I’ll learn faster with a food diary. The surest way to get the information I need objectively is to keep a record of what goes into my mouth and and other details that might be relevant (like […]
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Intellectual Basics – I have to figure out what inspires/motivates me. Everyone comes through my door initially because something pushed them over the edge into wanting to seek help, wanting to address this area of their life. I know for […]
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Intellectual Basics – I have to figure out how I sabotage myself. I will speak for myself, but I have found that I keep doing this in the same ways (unique to me perhaps) over and over. Everyone seems to […]
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