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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you’re trying to make big, dramatic changes. Maybe changing something smaller will help.

Or maybe start with more exercise. It’s all about diet, not so much exercise, for weight loss, but I know when I go for a run I don’t want to eat ice cream and blow up my hard work.

Or, and this is total projection here, so you have adhd? I do, and I do stupid things like you’re talking about. It’s not so much lack of willpower as it is impulse control (maybe the same thing). My heart is in the right place, but in the moment, I just don’t even think about the long term goal sometimes until I get the habit down if I’m off my meds. The worst example is when I needed to quit caffeine. I’d go for weeks and not really even be craving caffeine, but I always get a coke at the theater when I see a movie. I’d just get it out of habit, then after the movie I’d realize I just had a ton of caffeine and I’d have the withdrawal headaches again. So I’d have to be careful to prep myself before I’d change up my routine so I didn’t have slip ups like that when I tried to change habits. Pep talks, reminder notes, reward systems, plans and strategies for how to deal with things... things like that helped.

As far as real life causing break downs in the new system, the thing that helps me most is meal planning and cooking ahead as much as possible. If I have my lunch portioned out and I can grab and go, I won’t get to lunch and wonder what I’m gonna eat and hope I order the healthy option. If I have my snack bin full of appropriately portioned fun foods, I won’t go looking for ice cream or have to worry about having too much (eyeballing it and accidentally on purpose taking too much). [/quote]

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