Well it’s a new year and for the first year in many I have made a resolution or two. A week and a half into the year I am doing adequately with my resolutions.
The first resolution was to forego sweets. Way back in 2007, I would tend to eat a large dinner and then seem to leave the table looking for a couple of cookies, some ice cream, or candy. I would probably eat at least another 400 calories after eating a filling meal. It was all in my head and I knew it. I wasn’t really still hungry, I was brainwashed. The seductive sweets beamed messages to my brain which directed me to where they were and I ate them.
I decided that I must resist their seductive temptation and so I resolved not to eat sweets. They still beam the messages – they do it all the time. In fact as I write this I can here the mini candy bars in Frank’s office beckoning – “Come here, Dan, we are really tasty and will make you happy – you are really missing out on a lot by not eating us.” I am resisting. Maybe after awhile their siren-like messages will diminish.
Phase two of this project is to do the same thing with my mind. Try to stop “eating” or “feeding” my head things that seductively seem to command my attention but that have no true value. For now, I’ll work on avoid Krispy Kreme’s but next month it might include sitcom reruns.
Tags: dessert, New Year's Resolution, temptation
