One of the great secrets I’ve learned over the years is that we can’t visualize a negative action. You can’t picture in your mind NOT eating an ice cream cone. You can’t imagine NOT kicking a dog. You can’t imagine NOT eating that huge piece of FUDGE staring at you from the plate across the room.
In each case you have to imagine Doing the action and then putting a huge red circle with a slash through it.
Imagine saying to yourself all day… I can’t have ice cream, I can’t have ice cream, I can’t have ice cream…
What are you really focusing on… Ice Cream.
The definition of diet is…
A selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: No pie for me, I’m on a diet.
Instead of focusing on what you CAN’T have… why not create a diet checklist of what you can have.
As you partake of each healthy item throughout the day you can check it off the list. This way you are focusing on eating good food, and the great items you’ll get later in the day.
Make your checklist enticing with adjectives that describe your food in a positive light.
Breakfast: Warm aromatic oatmeal with ripe red strawberries
Snack: A sweet ripe banana
Lunch: Delicious Turkey Sandwich with a flavorful side salad
Dinner: Amazing Apple Glazed Chicken Breast with sautéed mushrooms.
If you stick to your checklist, you’ll eat great food and stick to your calorie goals. You’ll be thinking in a POSITIVE manner all through the day.
Here is to your checklist success!
Question: What Items Would Be On Your List?
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I have told my patients the same sort of thing about negative actions, there are only actions, things you do. Choose what to do, not what to avoid. I had not thought of this idea of a positive check list and great descriptions. Thanks for this idea.
Below is a tip worked for me.
I feel itchy for some junky snacks, then I check my stomach. It's flat and I am so content with the comfortableness. I savor the feeling and ask myself, why I even need to burden myself while I feel so good right now? There I happily let go of my food desires ^_^
Great story! It's also important to treat yourself in moderation – not everytime you make a wise, healthy food choice (i.e. don't follow a great salad for lunch with a double scoop of strawberry chessecake ice cream in a chocolate dipped waffle cone). After a week of making good choices, treat yourself with something small yet HUGE in taste. I love freezing my favorite yogurt – makes me feel like I'm eating ice cream yet its only 100 calories of frozen yogurt!
Great story! It's also important to treat yourself in moderation – not everytime you make a wise, healthy food choice (i.e. don't follow a great salad for lunch with a double scoop of strawberry chessecake ice cream in a chocolate dipped waffle cone). After a week of making good choices, treat yourself with something small yet HUGE in taste. I love freezing my favorite yogurt – makes me feel like I'm eating ice cream yet its only 100 calories of frozen yogurt!
Great story! It's also important to treat yourself in moderation – not everytime you make a wise, healthy food choice (i.e. don't follow a great salad for lunch with a double scoop of strawberry chessecake ice cream in a chocolate dipped waffle cone). After a week of making good choices, treat yourself with something small yet HUGE in taste. I love freezing my favorite yogurt – makes me feel like I'm eating ice cream yet its only 100 calories of frozen yogurt!
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