down55

Last week I was browsing Dr. Phill's website. I don't remember why. And I came across a section on bad habits. It referred to anything. Something there really struck me. If you're engaging in a bad habit, you're getting something out of it. Whether it is overeating, or watching too much TV or overspending. If you weren't getting anything at all out of it, then you wouldn't be doing it. And furthermore, the key to kicking the habit is to figure out what it is that you're getting out of it and find some other way to get that. For over eating, the payoff may be entertainment or fulfillment. So as long as you put yourself in a place where you're sitting in an empty house, with nothing to do but eat, you're going to overeat because willpower is fickle. He's right. Once I thought about it, I do get a payoff from overeating. And subconsciously, I eliminated some of those back in October, which I why I was able to lose the 55 pounds. But dropping the last 20 hasn't been so easy, because I still eat more than I should, for a variety of reasons.