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Morning Musings: January 21

Jan 21, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 20

Jan 20, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 19

Jan 19, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 18

Jan 18, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 17

Jan 17, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 16

Jan 16, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 15

Jan 15, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 14

Jan 14, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 13

Jan 13, 2024

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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Morning Musings: January 12

Jan 12, 2024

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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