I call it "If Only".
If only I had started a healthy eating plan X amount of time ago... Be it a year, two years, a month... Whatever. I would be X amount of weight smaller. X amount of weight closer to my goal. Instead, here I sit, a year, two years, a month heavier, more unhealthy and feeling horrible about myself.
Think I'll go drown my sorrows in the fridge.
It is a really good way to mess with my mind. And my efforts to get or stay on track.
Well, this morning, it occurred to me; I am 33 days into my new lifestyle. I am a little smaller, I feel better and I am 33 days and at least twenty pounds closer to my goal weight. Rather than wallowing in self-pity and wanting to attack my pantry, I am feeling downright good, at the moment.
Maybe I can turn that destructive little mind game around and use it to my advantage.
Please share how you have reversed a destructive mind game to become an affirmation and a source of self support.