Halloween opens a scary season for this dieter. In a short two months we’ll go from today’s
sweets holiday, to the overeating of Thanksgiving, to the combination blowout
of sweets and overeating on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day. Then, a week
later, to make sure everyone’s at their years heaviest—just in time for
resolutions—we eat for New Year’s.
Well, no more for this new man! With a vein of new confidence gained by
finally getting under 300lbs and especially by completing the half marathon
(something that many much fitter people haven’t done!), and readied by the hard
physical work done with Laurie and steadied by the mental bolstering of Mindy, I
don’t want any backsliding into old habits or to even tarry on the trip towards
my goal.
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Wanting to finish the holiday season lighter than when I
entered it, I was tempted to try a big goal: No sweets for a hundred days! But I know myself, and I just know that when
I meet my first challenge, say a delectable caramel-ly treat this Halloween, I would end up delusionally reasoning and bargain: 3 days in, 97 to go, I’ll
just submit to temptation and start over again.
By some sort of magic I’ll be strong enough to resist the sweet in
another 3 day’s time.
Instead I recognize that I am a food addict that nearly
bargained himself to an early, spoon-dug food/fat grave, and that I’m strong enough
to make it through these challenging days if I focus and fight these
pathological urges. To use a recovering
addiction maxim, you’ve got to take it one day at a time, and so my goal is to
get through tonight and tomorrow without eating Halloween candy. Then my goal will be to not eat any of the
liquidated remainder candy from the grocery that inevitably makes its way into
the house.
The days of successful goals will add up and I’ll finish the
100 days in the new year much lighter and much happier for having proved my new
determined will. That’s the plan, let’s
hope all goes well. Happy Halloween!
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