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You ever have a tub of Pringles in the house?
And once it’s opened, it’s gone in quick order?
“Once you pop, you can’t stop” goes the tagline.
Accurate.
You can replace the word Pringles there with all sorts, from our experience.
Family sized Dairy Milk bar.
Bottle of wine.
Cake.
And so on.
With many things, many of us struggle to stop once we’ve started.
To stop once we’ve popped.
We’ve had several posts in our group about this recently.
Wendy with her pack of biscuits.
Lindsay with a whole cake.
And so on.
There are two obvious solutions.
Either don’t pop in the first place.
Or make it so you have to stop.
Most Fit Pros will tell you not to cut out particular foods.
And we agree that intending to never eat a specific food again isn’t a great approach.
But if you struggle to keep your consumption reasonable……….
Not bothering with it all that often is a perfectly valid approach.
Managing Food Consumption
I like chocolate as much as the next person.
But if I don’t have it for a while, I don’t really miss it.
Have some and I want more.
Once I pop, I can’t stop.
So I don’t have it all that often.
Doesn’t mean I think it’s impossible to be in shape and eat chocolate.
Doesn’t mean I think chocolate is a particularly bad thing to be avoided at all cost.
I just know if I have it, I want more.
If I don’t, I don’t.
Works for me.
It’s all about managing food consumption.
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As I said before another option is to make it so you have to stop.
Have that family sized bar in and it’ll probably get eaten.
Have multiple smaller bars in and they’ll go I’m sure.
Pick up one small chocolate bar on the way home?
Would you go back out again once it’d gone?
Maybe.
But I’m sure it would lead to less overall than when there’s loads available at all times.
Same with a small bottle of wine or an individual serving of cake and so on.
I know bigger is usually ‘better value’.
But is it worth that little saving?
Why create a situation that requires will power?
Shape your environment to reduce or remove that need for will power and it all becomes much easier 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Tart’ Hall and Matt ‘Star’ Nicholson
P.S. Check the briefing meetings at RISE in Macclesfield if you want to find out more about an approach that’s taken hundreds of people who’ve only ever been told before that they need more willpower and helped them work with themselves rather than against.
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