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Nothing Threatens Your Goals More Than This
Simple to avoid, yet simple to fall into
It is scarily easy to undo hours, weeks, months, even years of work in an instant. This is where the addicts’ refrain of “take each day at a time” comes from.
Be sober for ten years and one drink can put you back to square one.
Hold together your eating and exercise plan for weeks, then one lost weekend of bingeing can put you back to where you began.
What gets you to the point where you struggle to stay on track?
The Nemesis
For me, tiredness is that one thing. There are others, but tiredness makes me crave all the things I know to avoid — alcohol, carbs and sugar — more than anything else.
When I’m tired, it all starts to go wrong. I’m less likely to be effective in my work, I’m more likely to fall out with people, I have less patience, and as for my willpower?
It just evaporates.
The solution is so easy. Get to bed earlier, get more sleep. And yet. The vicious circle is scarily easy to get swept up in.
Have a bad day, one where you’ve achieved little, eaten your bodyweight in snacks, shouted at everyone and felt ashamed at your lack of willpower… and…
