Excerpts from You and Your Behaviors

The thinking, more thinking, and small changes are all part of the process bringing you to action.  Plan strategies to cope with difficult situations that most surely will come.  Change routines where temptation lurks.  Don’t walk aimlessly through the baked-goods section of the supermarket when you could be at the museum.  Make substitutions like exercise to bolster your resolve.  Learn to wait out the urges.  Set a timer and know that “This too shall pass.” 

Know your cravings, and don’t keep morsels around “in case the children, grandchildren, or friends drop in.”  Go away for a weekend if a neighborhood activity would undermine your drinking/eating plan.  At a later time, this will be a non-issue.  Do what you need to do for today to take care of yourself. 

Accept responsibility  p. 8

                                                 

The food industry thrives on the robots of deprivation.  Put enough dollars into advertising the “wholesome” advantages of skinned, deep fat fried, and lightly salted potato slices or the vitamin C fortified drink and the consumer succumbs.  These purchases keep you from healthy living, deprived of good health.  Deprivation is not doing without greasy, sugary foods, but rather eating them!  The bonanza of nutrients lies in simplicity.  A natural food is one presented by God in nature.  Pull it off the tree or pluck it out of the ground and enjoy – before processing.  If God made it, eat it.  If the food manufacturer made it, watch out.  I love short labels, like tomato, beans, or orange juice.  Beware of long ingredient panels with words you can’t pronounce.  That jackpot of chemicals is interfering with the absorption of nutrients.  Deprivation!! 

Boundaries Are Not Deprivation  p. 17-18

 

Walking is man’s best medicine.

-Hippocrates