Post by bbbearsmom on Mar 23, 2024 22:45:44 GMT
Day 24 – Deal with Discouragement
Beck points out dieting is often easy at first because in the beginning we are inspired. As time goes on it can become harder, life gets in the way, dieting requires more effort, there are days when cravings are more intense, you think this is too hard, you don’t think you’ll keep up, you think you just don’t want to do this anymore. She goes on to say that those feelings are normal, but it isn’t okay to let them overwhelm you and keep you from your goal.
You have a choice when you have these thoughts, give up, or fight the sabotaging thoughts. You can do this and dieting will get easy. (It usually goes in hard/easy cycles.)
These are her suggestions for finding encouragement:
Read your Advantages Response Card more often. Rewrite it to freshen it up thinking about each item listed. Add new advantages as you think of them.
Add up your difficult hours. There are 168 hours in a week how much of this time was difficult?
Focus on what you can do today. She cautions us about focusing on the long term, instead she suggests focusing on today taking care of tomorrow when it gets here. (I somewhat disagree with this because I’ve found that planning ahead is such a help.)
Have you been discouraged while doing this? How did you handle it?
Beck points out dieting is often easy at first because in the beginning we are inspired. As time goes on it can become harder, life gets in the way, dieting requires more effort, there are days when cravings are more intense, you think this is too hard, you don’t think you’ll keep up, you think you just don’t want to do this anymore. She goes on to say that those feelings are normal, but it isn’t okay to let them overwhelm you and keep you from your goal.
You have a choice when you have these thoughts, give up, or fight the sabotaging thoughts. You can do this and dieting will get easy. (It usually goes in hard/easy cycles.)
These are her suggestions for finding encouragement:
Read your Advantages Response Card more often. Rewrite it to freshen it up thinking about each item listed. Add new advantages as you think of them.
Add up your difficult hours. There are 168 hours in a week how much of this time was difficult?
Focus on what you can do today. She cautions us about focusing on the long term, instead she suggests focusing on today taking care of tomorrow when it gets here. (I somewhat disagree with this because I’ve found that planning ahead is such a help.)
Have you been discouraged while doing this? How did you handle it?
