This expression has been popping into my head a few times this morning while I was reading posts. It implies that Ms Q Public is so involved in the details that she can not see the bigger picture. Three ounces of chicken ... no two ounces, but how many calories were in that sandwich she had at that baby shower this morning? The cucumber roll would have been a better choice. Skip the chicken and eat tuna instead? If Mr Q would watch the children she could walk to her mother's this evening. But what if Mom has cookies out? Maybe she'll just skip her evening snack and have Junior's left over cookie crumbs now. Or she could walk up and down the stairs while the chicken is baking. It'd be sooo much easier if there was a treadmill in the kitchen. If she just had back the money she spent on that lawn furniture. She read online that her optimal caloric intake should be 1900 calories. She would have liked to try 1750 but the other site said 2100 so maybe 2500 on the weekend wouldn't be so bad. If she only knew the count on that sandwich she could start counting today ...
I believe that the inverse is often also true. That Ms Q Public can be so focussed on the long range that she fails to see the stones under her feet. She may have vowed to walk ten miles in ten days but figures the doesn't necessarily mean she has to walk a mile today. She can always walk two tomorrow.
There is also the little matter of complacency. This is where Ms Q Public has done it before and knows what to do and can do it again. She knows she's cheated and still lost. She knows she's skipped a work-out and still lost. She knows that being 155 felt OK and figures maybe 140 wouldn't be all that exciting anyway.
Think on these. Into which thought process did you fall this weekend? (since weekends seem to be such a challenge) Will this knowledge help you cope with the next weekend? or the next holiday weekend?
I'm liking the simple life these days. Just do it and move on.
