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Weight Loss - Are You a Human Garbage Can?
By Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP
What to Do with the Leftovers?
Okay, tell me if you've ever done this: It's Monday late afternoon. You decided
yesterday that starting today you were going to 1. eat right, and 2. start to
get regular exercise, and 3. give up all your bad habits. So, you're picking
things up around the house and starting to notice all the little bits and pieces of
leftovers from the past weekend. Namely, cookies here, and small bits of candy there.
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decide what you want, to continue to indulge yourself or to get into better shape
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In my house today I noticed I had three large shortbread cookies (I'm overly
fond of shortbread cookies with icing), several bags of the candy that resemble
real rocks which I keep saying I want to put in a jar, but I haven't found just
the right jar (for display, you know), and the leftovers from the latest summer
picnic, which in my case is about five pounds of fruit salad - not bad in
itself, but I can only eat so much fruit salad.
And Then There's the Wine
Of course, I had to buy some wine at a tasting on Saturday (I always buy it,
don't know why I think those wine tasting's are such a great deal - they always
entice me to buy), and now there's an open bottle waiting.
So, my thoughts are, "Do I eat this, or not?" "Do I throw it away and WASTE it?"
"Oh, my, dear no. That's not a good idea," I think. Oh, I just remembered there
is also an entire plate of large cinnamon rolls (Cinnabon style) I made Friday
night. They'll be stale soon. That's not good. It'd be such a shame to throw
them all away, and I only ate one.
And so it goes. Do I talk myself into eating up the last remnants of the
weekend, thus going into Tuesday and possibly Wednesday with the taste of
weekend indulgence still on my lips, or do I decide, really decide, I've had
enough? It's time to eat better, like I just said, last night. Remember last
night? It seems so long ago now ...
What if We Just Start Tomorrow?
It's interesting how easily we talk ourselves right out of what we had decided
yesterday was such a good idea. So what's wrong with just starting tomorrow?
What's wrong is that tomorrow never comes. It's always today, right now. You'll
never reach that elusive tomorrow.
Yes, the date on the calendar changes, but you, standing where you are, right
here, right now, are still here, in the present. You can't live in the past, nor
can you live in the future. You can only live in the moment.
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