yarmiah
November 16th, 2007, 05:42 PM
I came across this article in Good Housekeeping while waiting in the hospital with my Dad yesterday. (yesterday was 11/15/07 and the article is from a March 2007 magazine LOL). All my adult life I have struggled with weight loss, and particularly the yo-yo effect- losing weight, slipping up and turning the slip up into a full blown reversal of progress . .hating my weight, starting a diet, start the process over. . .
Anyway, the article is titled:
"You say you want to change? Great. But get ready to backslide. Everyone does. Here's how to forgive yourself, keep going, and succeed.(your Good life)"
Here are a few snippits:
Have you ever succumbed to the "I just ate one cookie so I might as well scarf down the whole box" syndrome? The first time we slip up, most of us become convinced we are hopeless, weak, or unmotivated--which makes us feel even more stuck than we were before.
We're so mad at ourselves for violating a rule that we punish ourselves by abandoning all self-control. Or we decide we might as well give up because we've missed one day.
Psychologists call this the abstinence-violation effect--a harsh, all-or-nothing attitude toward our behavior. It's paradoxical, but the more we hold ourselves to this rigid standard, the more we then abuse ourselves with the very thing we've outlawed!The way around this type of self-sabotage is to know in advance that, whatever it is you've resolved to do, somewhere along the way you'll blow it: You won't stick to your savings plan, you will slack off exercising, you will let yourself get caught up in perfectionism again.
You say you're going to change, you may even do it for a short while, but then something happens and suddenly you're back to eating HoHos and vegging out on the couch instead of working out. What happened? Experts refer to this as "instinctual drift," the tendency to slip back into old patterns.
Here is the link to the entire article: You say you want to change? Great. But get ready to backslide. Everyone does. Here's how to forgive yourself, keep going, and succeed. | Good Housekeeping (March, 2007) (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30303042_ITM)
I truly believe in what they are talking about, and feel it has played an intrigal part in how I have been able to STAY ON TRACK for 90 days+
Hope its an insight and help for you as well!
Anyway, the article is titled:
"You say you want to change? Great. But get ready to backslide. Everyone does. Here's how to forgive yourself, keep going, and succeed.(your Good life)"
Here are a few snippits:
Have you ever succumbed to the "I just ate one cookie so I might as well scarf down the whole box" syndrome? The first time we slip up, most of us become convinced we are hopeless, weak, or unmotivated--which makes us feel even more stuck than we were before.
We're so mad at ourselves for violating a rule that we punish ourselves by abandoning all self-control. Or we decide we might as well give up because we've missed one day.
Psychologists call this the abstinence-violation effect--a harsh, all-or-nothing attitude toward our behavior. It's paradoxical, but the more we hold ourselves to this rigid standard, the more we then abuse ourselves with the very thing we've outlawed!The way around this type of self-sabotage is to know in advance that, whatever it is you've resolved to do, somewhere along the way you'll blow it: You won't stick to your savings plan, you will slack off exercising, you will let yourself get caught up in perfectionism again.
You say you're going to change, you may even do it for a short while, but then something happens and suddenly you're back to eating HoHos and vegging out on the couch instead of working out. What happened? Experts refer to this as "instinctual drift," the tendency to slip back into old patterns.
Here is the link to the entire article: You say you want to change? Great. But get ready to backslide. Everyone does. Here's how to forgive yourself, keep going, and succeed. | Good Housekeeping (March, 2007) (http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30303042_ITM)
I truly believe in what they are talking about, and feel it has played an intrigal part in how I have been able to STAY ON TRACK for 90 days+
Hope its an insight and help for you as well!