I fear I've rained on my weight-woed blogger chicka's parade.
She is trying to be extrinsically motivated, by setting the self-bribe of getting a lap top if she loses her final 25 lbs.
It sounds great!
I'm excited for her if it works, but I know from my past experiences that this doesn't work for me.
Oh, I've promised myself all kinds of things; trips, outfits, massages, pedicures. Then I find that I just go on trips, buy outfits, have massages and get pedicures whether I lose weight or not. I even had Wayne bribe me with a kitchen remodel last year if my scale showed 140 pounds by January.
I still don't have a new kitchen.......hmmmm??
Why can't I do it?
I get all excited for about 20 days, then just wear out. Then, I get mad at Wayne for even suggesting a kitchen remodel reward, when it was all my idea in the first place! I tell myself, "I deserve a new kitchen if I weigh 140 or 160!!- Why is Wayne being so rude? Can you believe him?"
Crazy town!
I hope that the reward system works for other people but it usually ends up feeling like a punishment for me.
2 comments:
I totally understand and I've been there too! Somewhere, somehow, it's just a decision one has to make and stick to it. I've been there a couple of times and done it for over a year once. Then one little slip and I'm back to ground zero! Why can't I just not slip! and why does one slip take me back to zero???? That's what I haven't figured out.
I'm eating candy corn right now. Tell me about it.
And my word validation is obsesse.
Five pounds down though, baby.
Err...probably only four...or three...by the time I finish the candy.
Okay, no, I want the laptop. I will...throw...the...candy...away...
Riiiight.
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