I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone, but I honestly believe it can be useful to understand that our behaviors are our own, our thoughts are our own, and our momentum is our own.
Meaning: there are no cravings, there is no wagon, there is just US and what we choose to think about ourselves and our food.
When we start to adopt the language of "the dog ate my homework", we are really just playing into the powerlessness that the diet industry and the medical complex has chosen for us. It is, of course, TOTAL bullcrap.
What I mean is that the language that there is some kind of volition outside of ourselves that would like to eat a donut -- well, NO, there's NOT. Our volition is purely our own. There is nothing in our field of volition that we didn't put there or allow there. If WE (consciously or unconsciously) start to think, "I would like to gobble some donuts and am willing to start myself down the path of addiction, compulsion and ill health", then we will in fact go down that path. But we cannot blame "cravings" as though they are entities that do not obey us. Every single action we take, is our own, driven by our own volition.
Re "the wagon" -- our momentum is our own. Our momentum is a string of behaviors that we have chosen. There is no conveyor belt that was every carrying us along toward good health, and there is no conveyor belt that carries us to our demise. There is just us, and our choices.
Our brains are a place where only we get to think the thoughts. There is no one else but us. No one can undermine our thoughts or beliefs when they are positive. No one can implant thoughts or beliefs that are destructive.
Just us! Of course the diet industry loves it when we give our power over to "the cravings" and "the wagon" but screw that! We are smarter.
Start doing the things and thinking the thoughts that help you feel good, emotionally and physically. You can implement wonderful patterns, if you want to implement such a thing.
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