Outsmarting Overeating by Karen R. Koenig

Author:Karen R. Koenig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New World Library

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How do you feel when your routines become too rigid or excessive? How do you feel when you don’t have or don’t follow routines at all? Specifically, what could you do to remain more in balance?

Now, back to the term self-regulation. If you’re not exactly sure what I mean by it, try these examples on for size:

•You hardly ever exercise, but you sporadically go on intense weekend boot camps, which, the next day, make your body feel as if it’s been run over by a truck.

•When you join a gym, you insist on going either every day or for two hours at a clip, even though neither is feasible given your schedule, so you eventually stop going altogether.

•You rarely buy clothes for yourself, but when you do it’s a mega shopping spree and you come home with oodles of items that you look at and think, “When will I ever wear this?”

•You have a hard time leaving work on time almost every night, even though pretty much everyone else zips out the door at five sharp.

•Your home is either a mess or spotless.

•You usually let other people make decisions for you, which builds up a head of resentment in you until, one day, you put your foot down and freak out everyone when you insist, irrationally, that some petty thing must be done your way.

•You spend so much time with your social network in cyberspace that you miss out on real time with friends, so you unsubscribe to all your favorite sites, until you’re in such deep withdrawal that you sign up again on them all.

•You either stuff your feelings or can’t stop crying, screaming, or moping around.

•You pledge to go to sleep at a reasonable hour and do it self-righteously for a week, then lapse back into hitting the sack long after your body and mind have quit for the day.

•If you can’t do something perfectly, or at least exceedingly well, you either don’t do it at all or you’re miserable the whole time you’re doing it, because you feel like a failure.

These may seem like normal, everyday actions to you, but they’re examples of dysregulation. It’s as if you were born with only an on-off switch and no calibration in between. If you have dimmer switches on the lights in your home, you know what I mean by what’s “in between”: there’s a whole range between blindingly bright light and dim light in which you can barely see your hand. Just as the volume control on your iPhone or TV is a continuum, you, as a human instrument, also possess a finely tuned control mechanism, but one that’s been stuck in the on-off position. The skill you want to develop is to identify, value, and use its calibrations.

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