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doublelongdaddy;721407 said:The way I look at this in a analogical way is I am holding 12 donuts. Now I love my donuts and I do not want to have to give them up but at the same time I know these donuts are making me fat. So I do not start by throwing away all the donuts, no that would be a big mistake because once we say "I will not" or "I can't" or any other absolute negative it makes the challenge unsustainable and unrealistic. Put down half the donutsAs time goes by you will have less and less donuts but you will start to see that you never needed the donuts to begin with
And if you find a day when you slip up and have a donut, do not punish yourself or put yourself in a state of guilt, first give yourself credit for how far you have come and then resolve to make it father next time. For me it was 7 days, than 28 days, now I am shooting for 60.
I'm this way with Ice Cream...if I know there's ice cream in the freezer, I take a certain 'comfort' just knowing it's there...I don't necessarily have to have any.