I haven't eaten fast food yet in 2012.*
A few years ago, I ate every day at either Burger King or Wendy's.
I was cleaning and I found my last BK receipt (I had taken the free Whopper survey and saved it)--dated 11/18/2011.
Every once in a while I have a slight urge for a Whopper. I simply say, "That's right,
I don't eat there anymore" and find food elsewhere.
How the hell did I do this? If you told me to do it, I wouldn't. I'd rebel. I'd go there twice a day.
But somehow, easily, calmly and with no forward planning whatsoever, I removed both restaurants from my life. Like surgery taking off a mole. It used to always been there and sometimes you put your finger on the spot to play wiggle-the-mole but it's gone.
So if I can remove those two places, why can't I rewire my brain in other ways?
I had a reason. Several reasons.
Burger King changed their fries. Their fries absolutely suck now. So I say, "I don't really want to go there and eat those gross fries," and it's perfectly convincing.
Wendy's also changed their fries but honestly I haven't even tried them, just convinced myself they are also gross. I know they have more calories and more fat and more sodium than the other fries (which, frankly, weren't that good). My local Wendy's is so crappy in general that I've managed to extrapolate it to all Wendy's. Lacking a receipt, I can't tell you when I went there last. But the lovely Internet tells me they changed their fries a full year before Burger King--November 2010.
I want to do this for other things. Convince myself that places and foods are bad for me and even if I crave them have a reminder that there's a perfectly valid reason not to eat there or eat that thing.
I am working on scheduling a return trip to Deb Donze, my awesome therapist. I have to ask her if there's a way she can, during hypnosis, do a
post-hypnotic suggestion that in the near future I'll make such decisions on my own and
not remember that I planned it.
Because if I can do it once, with fast food, I should be able to do it again with other things that are just as bad for me, right?
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*I still eat at Five Guys every couple of months, but I haven't found anyone who truly considers that on par with McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, etc.
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