Thursday, November 1, 2007
Cold Turkey
Ok, so since the time we wrote about body image this has been in the back of my mind. Everyone has an excuse. Achieving something through will power is just straight old fashioned. Wanna lose weight? I can offer you a thousand self help books, two hundred hypnotists, even several services that will send you ALL your meals for a week, then you can drop hundreds of dollars for these services and then when you don't lose any weight because you ahve no will power, at least you can bitch about doing everything you can and still not being able to succeed. Of course weight loss is a played out example of this, but its a really good one. I don't know, maybe I'm just blessed with exceptional will power, but when I grew up, 4'11" tall, 150 lbs in the eighth grade, I just decided one day that I wasn't going to be fat anymore. So I stopped overeating. I stopped snacking. Honestly it wasn't that hard. Wanna quit smoking? Don't go out and buy all the patches and gums and self help books you can. Just chuck the cigs and don't buy any more. And then when your like "Damn. I could really use a smoke." Don't go buy some, don't bum one off someone. Just don't smoke. Theres a novel idea huh?
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This is very true even though most people can't do it. Some people try to but just can't they give in to temptations and once they have done this once they are back to the way they were. It is hard for people that have relied on a substance for so long they can't just drop it so easily.
Doug,
I completely agree that people need to have more power of their own actions and to take more responsibility of their actions. It is easy to get "help" aids but if you dont have the personal determination then they all mean nothing. If stopping something / changing something was really an importance to people then they would have the will power to stop.
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