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Originally Posted by luckymommy
The truth is that when I want to binge on food, no amount of external motivators really stop me from doing it....I just have to remind myself that I want desperately to reach my goal. Sorry to be a downer! This is a fun topic, but I've found that having rewards are great for celebrating, but they are just rewards and they really don't change my behavior. I wish they would but the lure of food is just too powerful.
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Doesn't make you a downer, just means this isn't a tactic that works
for you.
Look, losing weight is simple, right? Eat less, exercise more. All the rest is the games and manipulations and motivations we trick ourselves with to make those two things happen, because they are a lot easier to say than to do. But since we're all different, different games work differently on us.
You say the only that that can fight the lure of food is reminding yourself that you want to reach your goal - that's great! But I find that such long-term thinking is utterly wasted on me. Oh, I get it in an intellectual way, but not in a way that's going to get me to put down the donut
right now.
I need to balance the lure of the donut against a concrete pain that I am going to feel
now - not a vague and unspecified pain that I might feel at some unknown time in the future. And that's why tying daily food choices to some immediate consequence, like not getting to buy any new music this week, works
for me.
