By Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23722293
This Is How You Break a Bad Habit, According to an Addiction Expert
We start out each year with the best of intentions—to eat better, quit smoking, exercise more, or drink less—but for some reason, many of us eventually give in to temptation, and our focus wanes. The simple truth is that being disciplined takes effort, and that can be challenging when we’re all so easily distracted all the time. But that’s not entirely our fault.
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Quinn Black eased her Mini Cooper off the exit ramp and hit the usual barrage at the interchange.
Pancake House, Wendy’s, McDonald’s, KFC.
With great
affection, she thought of a Quarter Pounder, with a side of really salty fries,
and -
natch - a Diet Coke to ease the guilt. But since that
would be breaking her vow to eat fast food no more than once a month, she wasn’t going to indulge.
“There now,
don’t you feel
righteous?” she asked herself with only one wistful glance in the
rearview at
the lovely Golden Arches.
Her love of
the quick and the greasy had sent her on an odyssey of fad diets, unsatisfying supplements,
and miracle workout tapes through her late teens and early twenties. Until she’d finally slapped herself silly, tossed out
all her diet books, her diet articles, her I LOST TWENTY POUNDS IN TWO WEEKS AND YOU CAN, TOO! ads,
and put herself on the path to sensible eating and exercising.
Lifestyle
change, she reminded herself. She’d made a lifestyle change.
But boy,
she missed those Quarter Pounders more than she missed her ex-fiancé.
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