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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 22, 2023 23:52:55 GMT
Day 23 – Counter the Unfairness Syndrome
Beck points out that life is unfair, dieting is unfair, and some people use the unfairness they see in the situation to sabotage themselves by not doing what they need to do. She suggests that you admit that some situations are unfair or seem to be unfair and then use “Oh, well” and move on. She points out that there are worse unfair situations out there than us not being able to eat all the cookies we want and lose weight.
She guides us in putting our ideas of things being unfair into perspective.
First step is “Remind yourself why you decided to diet in the first place.” (Advantages Response Card) When you decided to diet the disadvantages of not dieting were stronger than the advantages to not dieting.
Second “Make a mental list of the advantages in your life.” Now compare your advantages to how other people live all over this country and the world.
Third “Create a Response Card.” If you have problems with feeling dieting is unfair, make up a card and talk back to yourself with a helpful response remembering that the greatest unfairness in this is not making your goal or not maintaining your goal weight.
Do you have any feelings of unfairness about this process? If you do how do you handle them?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 22, 2023 23:57:08 GMT
I've never had feelings of unfairness about having to work to lose weight and to maintain my goal weight. I used to be one of those naturally thin people and I taught myself to overeat and then was oblivious for years to what was happening with my body and didn't do anything. So, this is all on me. Although some of the hangup was I just didn't know how to lose weight, how to make myself do the work, and I was depressed. This is what I have to do now to have the health and body I want.
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Post by cathygeha on Nov 23, 2023 7:49:30 GMT
I used to think it was unfair that I didn't have a faster metabolism, wasn't taller, etc...but have grown into my own now and am happy to be the person I have become.
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Post by susan092907 on Nov 23, 2023 11:42:39 GMT
I don't think of unfairness, and I don't think I ever have in terms of weight management. Considering my genes, and my environment, and my habits, I think that there's just certain things that I have to deal with. Other people have other things to deal with. In fact, I often think about how lucky I am that I have the resources of time, and energy, and finances to be able to manage my weight the way that I do.
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Post by lani on Nov 23, 2023 15:23:33 GMT
Not an issue for me. I have always had access to healthy food, nutritional information, a fast enough metabolism etc. I just needed to decide to do the work and find the tools that worked for me.
Caveat: I have had times of illness and medication that affected my weight, but they were temporary. Everyone has something.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 23, 2023 17:23:10 GMT
I often think about how lucky I am that I have the resources of time, and energy, and finances to be able to manage my weight the way that I do. That's a nice way to look at things.
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Post by lizlor on Nov 23, 2023 23:13:47 GMT
I think lightening would strike me if I believed life is unfair for me. I consider myself a very lucky person… with the time and resources to be able to tackle something as simple as overeating.
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Post by ermabom on Dec 2, 2023 14:40:30 GMT
Oh I definitely felt life was unfair. I have many people with high metabolisms who are taller in my family. I inherited the short and slow metabolism genes and I used to look at my sister eating a big bowl of ice cream when I was eating one serving and feel that it was unfair.
I've gotten over it now.
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