Good morning RMS lifestyle fans! Hope you had a GREAT weekend...BUT, do you feel like you slipped a bit too much from healthy eating? Well turn a SLIP from a crisis into an opportunity with the S.L.I.P. technique described below and youll be one BIG step further from being a dieter (overly strict mindset) relying too much on short term tactics, and closer to being an RMS lifestyle changer (with practical, but persistent sincere goals based on long term strategy and compassion for yourSELF!) - so here we go! I present to you....the freedom to SLIP! The S.L.I.P. technique: Trying to get into a healthy lifestyle? Then, as hard as it may seem to believe, the REALITY MEETS SCIENCE (tm) system WELCOMES the opportunity provided by SLIPs! No one has EVER been successful at achieving truly long lasting healthy lifestyle change without feeling theyve slipped off track. BUT, the TRULY dedicated simply look at a slip as an OPPORTUNITY to learn! In fact, you can simply remember your SLIPs from now on as simply being an opportunity to Stop Look Investigate & Plan! S.L.I.P. = Stop = stopping the offending behavior – its okay, youre human! Simply stopping, whatever it is – eating cookies, drinking too many calories, laying around too much – whatever! Youre human and simply stopping that behavior is a legitimate start! Look = Looking at the situation objectively, in a balanced way – i.e., not expecting to achieve a all or nothing result....prepare yourself to find balance then... Investigate = Investigate the situation means to search for an opportunity (i.e. link in the behavior chain) to modify, in a realistic way that would still leave you satisfied and not deprived (e.g., would having a Haagen Daaz mini been enough? Did you have to buy the whole pint or 1/2 gallon of Breyers REALLY?), maybe even more satisfied and happy than what happened previously because youve given in a bit but not TOO much and felt the wonderful satisfaction of CONTROL (a very valuable and not so easily available commodity!) Plan = Now plan for a similar future situation and give yourself a chance to try it out, without over expecting – it may work, it may not – or it may work only partially. Whatever the case, the success is IN THE TRYING and then LEARNING. REMEMBER - you can always RINSE & REPEAT (tweak and modify) your plan as often as you need! So it is worth repeating - I am not only saying it is OK, per se. I am saying you MUST go out there and EMBRACE your SLIPs, not so much as a crisis (even if it is a bit of one), but as an opportunity to LEARN by simply: STOPPING (the problem behavior) LOOKING (at the situation objectively) INVESTIGATING (where there may be an opportunity to change the pattern) then PLANNING for a similar future situation! Think of it like an opportunity to be Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day! You get to rinse and repeat the SLIP technique as often as necessary until you finally reach your own personal level of perfection! HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES! Now go and MAKE it a great REALITY MEETS SCIENCE (tm) day!
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 10:34:23 +0000
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