The 3 Bad Ingrained Things

False Generalizations: This is when you think you are your behavior-when you turn what you DO (even if only once) into what you ARE. If you spill your coffee all over your new pants in front of a group of people, you're a klutz. If you're late to meetings you must be slow or you must be lazy, and always will be.

Unrealistic Conclusions: This is thinking that you'll never change behaviors that you dislike about yourself. Example: "I ate the whole bag of chips last night. I'll never be able to control myself."

Self-Defeating Conclusions: These thoughts reflect an expectation for hopelessness in your efforts to change how you relate with others. They might go something like, "Since i'm worthless and lazy, what's the use of trying to change anything?"

-Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, by Scott E. Spradlin, MA

Any of them sound familiar??? Well, it's basically how my head runs. If i slip up and eat something 'bad', i'd always be weak-willed. And then, i'd feel like i never be abe to control myself. And that i'd go and binge, figuring that i'm worthless and that i'm doomed to be fat anyway, so why do i bother trying.

Call it a big mental breakthru or something, but the simplest (not the easiest thing in the world though, mind you) solution to the problem would be to simply give the idea of weight loss (which leads to the need to diet) up. It's the hardest, and yet the simplest, thing to do. You might even say that it's the ONLY solution to break out of the eating disordered mindset.

Of course, it's still a challenge to BREAK the same-old ingrained thoughts in my head. But heck, i'm trying.