Day 16 - Beck Diet Solution, Prevent Unplanned Eating

For those of us following Beck, Dr. Beck gives us another invaluable tool to keep us on our plans and not succumb to unplanned eating: NO CHOICE. There’s a lot of beauty in these words. They solve many cravings and triggers for us for the outset, because the decision not to eat is already made.

Beck tells us that drawing a line in the sand and deciding NOT to eat relieves the tension and anxiety over the food just as much as a decision to eat does. It’s like having a protective force field around us wherever we go, insulating us from the landmines of unplanned eating that exist in everyday life. Brownies someone brought into the office? Everybody having wine at a party? After a hard day, are you getting seduced by the late night pizza commercials? “No thanks, I’m good” (NO CHOICE)

These words can be as magic as you want them to be. Just add them to the list of non-negotiable rules we have in our lives every day, like brushing our teeth, taking required medicine, walking our dogs, and so on. Do we argue with ourselves about whether we have to follow these rules? Probably not, because they’ve become automatic for us. They’re just part of our daily routine and we probably don’t give much thought to why we have to do them – we just do.

BDS encourages us to also create other NO CHOICE rules for ourselves about eating, like the ones Dr. Beck made for herself:

1. Eat lots of protein, vegetables and fruit at every meal;

2. No junk food until after dinner;

3. Eat only raw veggies while preparing dinner; and

4. When eating out, you can eat up to 25% more than what you would at home.

These rules allow her to do things like leave afternoon receptions and still have room for dinner, and not gain more than a few pounds while on vacation. Try coming up with some of your own.

If we’ve let ourselves eat spontaneously our entire lives, this is probably what feels natural to us, not sticking to food plans. Yet both we and Dr. Beck have seen where that’s gotten us. The words NO CHOICE are actually liberating – they will free us of exhausting battles with food and grant us access to places we may have never been.

Comments

Day 22 - Beck Diet Solution, Say “Oh Well” To Disappointment

Inigo Montoya: Who are you? Man in Black: No one of consequence. Inigo Montoya: I must know... Man in Black: Get used to disappointment. Inigo Montoya: 'kay. The Princess Bride (20th Century Fox 1987) Just as Inigo shrugs off the disappointment of the Man in Black’s declining to reveal his identity and gets right back into the duel, so too must we shrug off those discouragements that go hand-in-hand with losing weight and keep truckin’ down the weight loss trail. It’ll go easier for us if we do. What if we just lay around bellyaching about how horrible it is that we can’t have that donut, can’t eat/drink exactly what everybody else does at parties, can’t just open the fridge and eat whenever we felt like it? How much would we really accomplish that way? Even if we do stick to our plans for a little while under that mindset, we’d be fighting an exhausting battle with ourselves every day and eventually give in. Even the patience and resolve of saints would

Hayride at Jersey Farm

The beginning of the first fall we have seen in four years. This time of year also makes me think of Joni Mitchell's song, "Urge for Going": I awoke today and found the frost perched on the town It hovered in a frozen sky, then it gobbled summer down When the sun turns traitor cold And all trees are shivering in a naked row I get the urge for going but I never seem to go I get the urge for going When the meadow grass is turning brown Summertime is falling down and winter is closing in I had me a man in summertime He had summer-colored skin And not another girl in town My darling's heart could win But when the leaves fell on the ground And bully winds came around pushed them face down in the snow He got the urge for going and I had to let him go He got the urge for going When the meadow grass was turning brown And summertime was falling down and winter was closing in Now the warriors of winter they gave a cold triumphant shout And all that s

Jimmy

he was just a simple Hoosier growing up amid the cornfields where everything made sense he loved the family cats and dogs in one picture he's looking down at his sweet dog while the others, unsmiling face the camera he would play ball all day sometimes Uncle Boob gave him his first fishing pole he'd sometimes leave a line floating while he went to church later he would discover golf read the whole Bible he didn't miss the snow when they came to Florida his life was simple a room full of books job on the golf course people lived and died there for the love of their game two weeks vacation every year when he'd do another golf and fish adventure then I came along never the woman he deserved watched his mom wished I could be like her beauty and kindness personified she did her duty to God her mind was to leave us before her body as it would be with her son never perfect but so full of love never to die in the middle of h

Endless Summer Creations

Search This Blog