Day 13

Perfection

You are not perfect. None of us are. You will have setbacks on the path to your ideal weight. You will wake up in the morning and realize with horror that last night at the party you ate an entire basket of chips and then had a huge platter of appetizers and finshed the evening off with two pieces of cake.

OK. Today is a new day. Yesterday is history. Get out of bed, brush your teeth and rededicate yourself to your goal of achieving your ideal weight. A slip up does not mean you’re hopeless, it means you’re human. We are biologic creatures who were designed (intelligently or not) to hunt and gather. We evolved in an environment where you had better eat everything in front of you because who knows when the next wildebeest will come along? Yet in modern society we are surrounded by food, in the real world, and in the media. Supermarkets are open 24 hours a day. The refrigerator is full of stuff to eat. Pizza can be delivered whenever you want it.

To stay thin you need to constantly be on guard, constantly make the right choices in terms of what you eat. Sometimes you’ll screw up. Move on. Nobody’s perfect.