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Mygoal 135

You absolutely have to put these mistakes behind you.
Remember, "no self revenge." 

http://www.nosdiet.com/#screwup

Here's yet another take on it:

Self discipline comes before, not after falling off.
Or rather, there *is* great discipline after, but it
consists precisely in not discplining (that is to say,
not punishing) yourself. This is hard, it takes
discipline not to discipline! It's a huge temptation.
But remember: you are not a child, you are a
responsible adult. To treat yourself like a child by
punishing yourself is to compromise your responsible
adulthood. You'll feel you can get away with future
misbehavior because future punishment will even things
out. Don't be this naughty child. For a responsible
adult, failure is in itself sufficient punishment. You
don't need any more. In so far as you don't feel this
way now, you have to train yourself. And you train
yourself by not punishing. 

Try the calendar trick I mentioned in my last post. A
string of slashed out days might be a great motivator
not to break the streak, and a new slash after falling
off an immediate, positive milestone to shoot for.

Reinhard

--- mygoal135 <mygoal135@...> wrote:
> i've gotten off track these past two days. this is
> the point where 
> most of my diets fail- i have trouble putting those
> mistakes behind 
> me and starting over. the day after eating too much
> junk, it's hard 
> to be good because i crave it like crazy. oh well
> -i'm going to do 
> it anyway. wish me luck. 
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