Learning discipline is amazing
OAS5
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It's absolutely astounding to me the discipline i have learned or aquirred in losing weight over the last year and half. Two examples.
When we go out to eat and I eat half of my meal and we have other leftovers i used to eat the leftovers as soon as we got home. Not anymore, now sometimes the food gets thrown away because I forget about it even being in there. I would have eaten the leftovers as soon I walked in the door and then had another meal. That doesn't happen anymore at all.
The other is yesterday we went to a great mom and pop grocery store/Bakery and got awesome donuts and cookies. I had not one cookie yet and a quarter of a donut. Back before, the donuts would be almost gone and one package of cookies. I'm quite proud of how i turned that all around. Discipline is tough to gain so yeah, I'm proud of it.
When we go out to eat and I eat half of my meal and we have other leftovers i used to eat the leftovers as soon as we got home. Not anymore, now sometimes the food gets thrown away because I forget about it even being in there. I would have eaten the leftovers as soon I walked in the door and then had another meal. That doesn't happen anymore at all.
The other is yesterday we went to a great mom and pop grocery store/Bakery and got awesome donuts and cookies. I had not one cookie yet and a quarter of a donut. Back before, the donuts would be almost gone and one package of cookies. I'm quite proud of how i turned that all around. Discipline is tough to gain so yeah, I'm proud of it.
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Yes! Commitment, discipline, our mindset....they're all a challenge in this but such a needed aspect of maintaining better health!!
You should be proud!
Every time I made a better healthier choice, I give myself a quiet little nod of accomplishment. But then, I'm also too hard on myself when I give in to that evil twin sitting on my other shoulder. 
Gotta learn we're all just human and make mistakes. 
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Quite frankly, I've been surprised at my own discipline with regards to respecting my calorie goal
Not to mention the vast array of snacks I can now have in the house without succumbing to temptation.
It's a great confidence boost!4 -
Yes!!! Once you master discipline, everything else follows along!1
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I've been very surprised at the ongoing discipline I've managed to (mostly) maintain since starting my diet in May 2019. I've also been equally surprised at the occasional spontaneous breakdowns of discipline when some binge trigger goes off in my brain and all hell breaks loose - even after telling myself I'm grown beyond that and am in a new place, food and habit wise. I'm less self-congratulatory about my diet discipline these days, and more focused on constant vigilance and not letting my good scale numbers cause overconfidence and chutzpah.4
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And a very cool thing is that one can use that new skill in other realms, like finances, education, career development, learning complex skills of other sorts (like learning to play a musical instrument), and more.7
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