Willpower is the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to meet long-term goals.
I don’t see this as a confession. Confession implies guilt, guilt implies wrong doing.
People refer to being off an eating plan as “cheating”. That doesn’t sit with me. If I decide to eat a pie, then that’s not cheating, I’ve decided to add pie to my food plan. It’s a bad choice, and while it doesn’t seem to have had too negative affect
…yes I ate a pie, a whole pie, over an afternoon and evening, it was all I ate that day…a whole pie..WTF is right!
it was still a full choice.
I think I look at ‘cheating’ the same way as regret: I don’t believe in it. If you know what you’re doing, and you make the choice to do it, then that’s your plan. A person can be cheated, and the person doing it is cheating, but you as a person cannot cheat.
I’m an all or nothing person (no pie vs whole pie) and that’s how my willpower works.
And I’ve been struggling this Christmas, and I’ve managed to finally empty the house of the tempations. Refocusing and back on track.
I still feel a little lost, emotionally, mentally but it’s getting better.
Not sure where I’m going with this ramble, other than confession my humanity.
Feeling a little lost going into 2015 I think. 2014 was pretty epic, not sure what to do in 2015.
