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I have had great success recently losing weight. Besides knowing the fundamentals of nutrition, a huge, huge part of losing weight is willpower. That means the restraint to prevent grabbing that extra donut or going to Carl’s Jr after a night of drinking or late night snacking when you really didn’t need it.
On the average willpower scale, I would bet I am somewhere around average. I don’t binge frequently, but I have trouble resisting a soda or a late-night meal when my body is calling for it. However, my success has nothing to do with my power of restraint: rather, it comes from making restraint a non-issue.
To prevent these binges from getting the best of me, I take precautions to make sure they never show their smiling face. Often when I’m at home, I want a snack, a little something to nibble on. Or maybe I need some caffeine pretty tough. So I do what most people would - I go to the fridge/cupboard, and look for food.
There’s never anything there.
When I want food or I want anything but I’ve concluded I don’t need it, I put blocking measures in place to make sure they can’t be reached. I have minimal food in my cupboards, food that I would never, ever crave for, but I can use if I need it for sustainability/muscle growth. If I want food, I go out. I have a grocery store right next to me, and also a Subway. I frequent these for my healthy-food needs, and If I’m going out to the bars or a party one night, I leave my ATM/Credit Cards at home, making sure that even if I want to late-night binge, I have no funds to do so.
Having to overcome bouts of laziness to drive to the grocery store or back home to pick up my ATM card keeps me from eating in excess, making weight loss more like a foregone conclusion and less like a challenge. This doesn’t only apply to losing weight - you can do this to save money, make sure you do something, whatever. If you want to make sure you get a great workout, have your friend drop you at the gym. You’ll have no choice but to run home, even if you feel like crap and want to abbreviate your workout. If you need to study for a long time, plan pickups and dropoffs so that you must spend the full 4-5 hours at the library or Starbucks or whatever you find most comfortable.
Basically, set standards, watermarks, whatever, to ensure that despite the wusiness and the psychological deficiencies of your own brain, you manage to do it, no matter what. Once you get over the hill past the initial craving, you will start to adapt to missing it and it will make future cravings less frequent, and when they happen, easier to get over. After that, everything is easier and simpler to accomplish.
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