Do you think that’s true? That a 100% is easier than 99%? I didn’t think so until I heard someone speaking about the challenges of 1%.
Let’s take sugar. Is it easier to tell yourself you can NEVER have sugar this week or 99% of the time you can not have sugar?
I thought it would be easier to commit to 99%. Then maybe I can have it once this week. I really enjoy sugar! But what does that mean? For me it means each meal I am asking myself:
Are you going to have it now?
Do you want that chocolate?
Or a cookie?
Or a slice of cake?
Should you go to the store and look at all your options so you pick the best?
My mouth is salivating.
If I go out to eat and I read the dessert menu do I question every single type of pie, French apple, lemon meringue, and with ice cream, whip cream or sorbet?
Isn’t it easier to tell yourself:
This week you will have none. Yep, none. No discussion, no question.
Each time I am offered, then I simply decline versus trying to convince myself that I don’t really want THAT cookie, but if it was peanut butter? Or maybe I want rocky road ice cream? Or a lollipop?
Or See’s or fudge? Now I am trying to talk myself out of choosing that sugar now so I can choose something else that’s even more yummy later.
Wouldn’t it be easier to leave no room, and I mean no room to question, to tease or torment?
For me, I think this is true,
100% is easier than 99%?
What do you think? Where do you struggle? Are you wanting an M&M right now?
