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Morning Musings: October 31
Hands down, the biggest mind game I ever played was telling myself that I don’t care. That’s the one I use when none of my other excuses will hold water with me. That is the final “to heck with it”. […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 30
Halloween – a single evening holiday that can light the fuse and set the stage for the whole ensuing holiday season. Virtually all of the special candy is just the same ole candy they sell everywhere all the time dressed […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 29
Self-recrimination is one of those convoluted methods I can also use to give myself permission to eat. I already blew it. I am already fat. I have diabetes anyway. I am so bad, why try? Just another way my eating […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 28
I have to eat it to be polite. Although I have done it a thousand times myself…no, actually I don’t. And if I really didn’t like it, I wouldn’t eat it. I have never seen a vegetarian eat a steak […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 27
Blaming is a great one because there is nothing I have to change about myself – it is someone else’s fault. “My husband doesn’t like it when I don’t eat with him” (so eat with him, but eat something that […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 26
Then there are the passive excuses; the “devil made me do it” family of excuses. “Then the pizza came in” one of my clients recently said to explain a particularly horrific food night. “What, by itself?,” I asked, obnoxiously. Here […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 25
Did eating ever actually fix the thing I ate over? Case in Point: One of my clients told me a funny story about how she was having incredible problems with her computer one day, and in total frustration went down […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 24
One of the ways I called my bluff on the “I don’t have time” thing was to actually time certain things. I kept hearing myself justify making instant oatmeal rather than eggs for breakfast because of the time thing. While […]
read moreMorning Musings: October 23
I have noticed that I use certain excuses all the time. Too tired and too stressed are very versatile excuses and conveniently fit almost anywhere. Both have better fixes that are not food. Interestingly enough, exercise (one of the things […]
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