Happy Failures
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:45 am
Hi,
I thought about what threw me off my diet-path in other diets and, like many other No-Sers have noticed for themselves in this forum, it comes down to perfectionism.
This is the first diet where I can indeed go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiam (a tweaked quote from Churchill).
Why?
a) This quote from someone on this forum (sorry that I can't remember!) about not wrecking you car over a dent really helps me. (I think it was "if you back into a pole you don't go and drive your car into a wall" about the WTH effect).
b) Now, I'm acknowledging my failure and just get right back on track. This obviously means that my failures have been very contained - they're in fact nearly in a grey zone - and I don't feel like my habits have been affected too much. I don't try to ignore the fact that I screwed up or hide it from others or me, which sadly I have tried in the past. If you really want a fun game try to hide things you know have happened from yourself. I just felt like such a loser for my lack of willpower. Reading about willpower has helped a lot.
c) It's the first diet I've come accross that deals with habits and not weight goals. I'm delighted and surprised that I'm slowly losing but when I do see a gain I don't throw away the system anymore and sure enough I'm down again within the week. It's very freeing.
Happy Failures to all of us so we can succeed enthusiastically on the whole!
I thought about what threw me off my diet-path in other diets and, like many other No-Sers have noticed for themselves in this forum, it comes down to perfectionism.
This is the first diet where I can indeed go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiam (a tweaked quote from Churchill).
Why?
a) This quote from someone on this forum (sorry that I can't remember!) about not wrecking you car over a dent really helps me. (I think it was "if you back into a pole you don't go and drive your car into a wall" about the WTH effect).
b) Now, I'm acknowledging my failure and just get right back on track. This obviously means that my failures have been very contained - they're in fact nearly in a grey zone - and I don't feel like my habits have been affected too much. I don't try to ignore the fact that I screwed up or hide it from others or me, which sadly I have tried in the past. If you really want a fun game try to hide things you know have happened from yourself. I just felt like such a loser for my lack of willpower. Reading about willpower has helped a lot.
c) It's the first diet I've come accross that deals with habits and not weight goals. I'm delighted and surprised that I'm slowly losing but when I do see a gain I don't throw away the system anymore and sure enough I'm down again within the week. It's very freeing.
Happy Failures to all of us so we can succeed enthusiastically on the whole!