Just like keeping your financial house in order, it’s takes discipline to keep your self in order. If you’re not in order, how can you expect everything else to be in order?

Triangles are the strongest of all the shapes, so here comes a strong three-point mantra:

Make a full commitment. Keep your goal in the front of your mind. It’s not going to work if you have your goal in the back of your mind, and heaviest of food groups chilling in the foreground, tickling your brain and winning against you and your goal.

Change your phone wallpaper, put stickers on your phone, leave sticky notes all over your house. Journal. Talk to yourself. Remind yourself. Make sure your reason has a back bone.

Recognize that habits don’t change overnight, and our relationship with food doesn’t heal overnight.

So, make a full commitment.

Overcome your temptations. Remember that food is just here to tempt you. Calories will always call you up after dinner and tempt you with hot gossip about all of your friends. Don’t let your relationship with food get you into that kind of trouble. Don’t forget that you decide whether you pick up the call.

Treat yourself in moderation. Life isn’t black and white, naturally there are tons of colours and grey areas to account for. Once you’ve established better food habits, and once you’re no longer going overboard, then it becomes possible to spoil yourself on occasion while keeping your goals in check.

Make a full commitment. Overcome your temptations. Treat yourself in moderation.

Wherever you are in your own journey, I wish you a pocket full of celery and a scale-full of success.

The deeper I go into this weight-loss challenge, the more I realize that they keys are all in my head and I can only master this challenge if I choose to. Eventually when I have 90% of my own demons in check, I’d like to propose a 10% reward system. I think there are others out there that call it cheat day.

Signed,

Calories on my mind, but not flattering the scale today, 1:59pm.