Believe me—you aren’t alone. Sometimes it feels like you have no control over what you put in your mouth. You try to eat well, try to stay away from sweets, and try really hard to be “good.” But then you find yourself with a cookie in your mouth. Who knows how it snuck in there but it did—so what are you gonna do? Quickly eat it and grab two more and eat them before you can talk yourself out of it-- because at that moment you don’t want to talk yourself out of it!
You just want to eat the dang cookies. And somehow feeling like you “shouldn’t” have them just makes you want them all the more!
If it stopped at one or two small cookies it probably wouldn’t be a big deal, right? But the guilt that results from eating the cookies can take you down “that road.” You know the road, right? I blew it with the cookies so I’m going to have that piece of cake I’ve been resisting—and heck, I might as well have a scoop of ice cream on it. Yippee! It’s a free for all!!
It feels good at the moment but a little while later it hits you that you did it again and your pants feel even tighter. You feel miserable, ashamed, and out of control.
What if you never had to go down that road again? The holidays are right around the corner. Want to do it differently this year?
I’ll show you how. See you next Friday…same time, same place.
