NSV - Old habits die hard...REALLY hard!!

Since I was 4 years old, I have had this awful habit of picking my fingernails, my cuticles, and the skin surrounding my fingernails. 24 years of this terrible, embarrassing, painful habit, and nothing ever worked to get rid of it.

But in my quest to improve myself - part of this quest was also joining MFP - I decided to also tackle other problem areas in my life, including this finger/nail-picking habit. I got the idea to just trim all of my fingernails WAY back, so that I couldn't pick at all, or it would at least be very difficult. For the first few nights, I would sleep with gloves that covered my Neosporin-slathered fingertips so that they would heal quickly, leaving nothing to pick. Eventually they were healed enough that I stopped sleeping with gloves on (it's not the most comfortable thing in the world), to the point that today I was showing my hands to some friends who knew about this habit, and another friend who didn't know piped up and said, "What, your cuticles? They're perfect!"

OMG!

My fingers have never been described, in any way, as "perfect."

It was amazing!! I have succeeded at breaking a really old, destructive habit. This is wonderful!!

It gives me renewed vigor in the quest to get healthy and lose weight, and I was too excited not to share.