My husband and I have been taking Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University through our church.  We have never been good at saving and we tend to spend our money and have nothing to show for it.  We figured with the declining economy and just buying a house, it was time to learn how to get ourselves in a better state financially.  It makes me sick to think about the amount of money we have just thrown away throughout the past 12 years.   How does this relate to dieting you ask?  Well, I’ll tell you.  

Yesterday’s lesson was how marketing is targeted to us and how sales people are trained to draw us in.  Dave’s whole thing was to LEARN TO SAY NO!!  We’ve all heard it before.  JUST SAY NO.  I was thinking to myself that this pertains to eating as well.  I am pretty good at saying no to buying things. I will walk into a store, get a armfull or cart full of stuff, and then decide I don’t need it and walk out with nothing.  When it comes to food, I don’t have it.  Put something in front of me, I will eat it.  It doesn’t matter that I’ve just eaten a full meal 20 minutes before, I will eat again and again and again and…. well, you get the picture.  There is something in my brain that shuts down when food is in front of me.  So I am thinking that I have to get into the mentality of just saying no to food.  Will it be hard?  Absolutely.  It’s like a former drug addict (and really, my problem is that food is an addiction to me) saying no to drugs.  My brain will have to start doing it’s job and thinking.  I’ll make it my mantra: justsaynojustsaynojustsaynojustsayno