Never Fall off the Wagon Again! How to Avoid Temptation.
I’m going to tell you a little story — stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’ve just started a new diet. You diligently cleaned out your cabinets of all junk food that would tempt you away from your weight loss goals. You prepare and bring healthy lunches and snacks to work so you can confidently say “no!” to the allure of your coworkers ordering in from the local pizzeria.
Friday rolls around, your fifth successful day on this diet. You’re proud of your accomplishment and this feeling of nascent momentum gives you hope that you can do it — this time will be different! Here we are on Saturday. You go about your day, preparing your healthy meals, drinking plenty of water, and taking a brisk walk around the neighborhood.
Upon arriving home, your friends call — you have a party to go to that night! Uh oh…turning down pizza at work is one thing but dinner and drinks? No matter, you’ve been this strong, surely you can do it!…or so you thought. Once you get there, hungry and surrounded by all of the things you love, you think, “I can surely just have one drink and one piece of bread, I’ll stop there for sure!”
Sound familiar yet? Then you know that that one drink turned into three, the one piece of bread turned into a loaf! Temptation is incredibly hard to deal with. While I was driving around earlier, I loaded up this great 6 minute video from Darren Hardy. In it, Darren talks about how to deal with this seemingly impossible situation. My own personal success in health and fitness originally hinged upon what he talks about in the video. Prior to doing this, I fell off the wagon over and over again.
After you watch the video, in the comments below, declare first, “I will clear my environment of all temptations.” Then, write down the top three things that threaten to tempt you away from your goal or New Year’s Resolution.
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