What I want, when I want.
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:27 pm
Prompted by another thread, I feel the need to be positive. I am annoyed by negative people.
I've come to realise quite how much of the diet industry is reliant on the attitude in the thread title. I've found, at least partly through No-S, that my main problems were laziness and impatience.
As most of us have now seen, if we can wait for the weekend before we eat that cake/chocolate/brie, the results are far preferable to eating it now and wanting another tomorrow. Folk often want results immediately and are reluctant to work and accept what achievements they make, favouring an extreme approach in short order and then reverting to what they find easy, wanting to achieve their goal with minimal effort and go back to doing things as they wish.
I've largely overcome my impatience now, through assorted methods, am still battling my inherent laziness (and winning, for the most part) and generally seek a balanced approach rather than results. I'm achieving what I want to achieve at a reasonable rate and can (and will) continue to improve with time. I sometimes think I want to eat things during the week and, on reflection, find that I don't, particularly. I want to improve myself, continually, for the rest of my life.
The general upshot of this rambling nonsense is that, by considering what I actually want and when I want it, I find that I can have both. Splendid, isn't it? Sorry for any excessive twee.
I've come to realise quite how much of the diet industry is reliant on the attitude in the thread title. I've found, at least partly through No-S, that my main problems were laziness and impatience.
As most of us have now seen, if we can wait for the weekend before we eat that cake/chocolate/brie, the results are far preferable to eating it now and wanting another tomorrow. Folk often want results immediately and are reluctant to work and accept what achievements they make, favouring an extreme approach in short order and then reverting to what they find easy, wanting to achieve their goal with minimal effort and go back to doing things as they wish.
I've largely overcome my impatience now, through assorted methods, am still battling my inherent laziness (and winning, for the most part) and generally seek a balanced approach rather than results. I'm achieving what I want to achieve at a reasonable rate and can (and will) continue to improve with time. I sometimes think I want to eat things during the week and, on reflection, find that I don't, particularly. I want to improve myself, continually, for the rest of my life.
The general upshot of this rambling nonsense is that, by considering what I actually want and when I want it, I find that I can have both. Splendid, isn't it? Sorry for any excessive twee.