The password to my diet website used to be “willpower.” This was actually an inside joke of sorts, meant to remind me of the following sentences: “Willpower is often construed as a stoic self-denial in the service of a distant goal, a capacity to deliberately endure and suffer while “biting the bullet.” But a less heroic … Continue reading »
self-regulation
On not blowing your diet after those long holiday weekends
If you have ever been on a diet, you know how difficult it can be to restrain the impulse to eat, eat, eat. It almost seems like even beyond our normal tendency to eat, dieting — when we’re not careful– can lead you to lose it and, ironically, eat even more. In this post, posted … Continue reading »