Are you wasting time playing games you cannot win? Back in the 1980s, there was a movie called "War Games" about a teen-aged boy who hacks into a computer at the U.S. Department of Defense, the one responsible for launching nuclear weapons.

By mistake, the boy sets off a computer sequence to launch a nuclear weapon attack against Russia.  He tries to stop it, knowing if the attack succeeds, Russia would strike the U.S. back with their own nuclear arsenal, causing destruction to both countries.

In the end, the only way he could stop the sequence was to have the computer play thousands of games of Tic, Tac, Toe with itself in the background. After exhausting itself with games it could never win (because they always ended in a tie), the computer finally burns out and says one of my favorite movie lines:

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

When it comes to your eating habits, you too are likely wasting time playing games that you don't need to play. What do I mean?

I am talking about leading yourself into food temptations. You keep foods around that you know "hijack your brain" or oppose your health goals.

Even if you resist the food temptation for the moment, what have you really won? You may possibly bolster your pride because you can say you "beat" those cookies or candies or chips, but is it really worth the effort? Don't you have better things to do with your time than pick "food fights" with yourself?

To me, it would be a wiser use of your time to find foods that are good for you, that you enjoy, and build your nutrition plan around those. You can always find healthy recipes that work for your family or unique ways to prepare healthy food - if you want to. I came to that conclusion myself years ago. It makes life so much easier!

The way I see it, if I kept wasting effort on battles I didn't need to fight, then I wouldn't have any energy left to fight the unavoidable ones! Those are the ones that require commitment and creativity to overcome.

For most of us, 95% of the food temptations we face are those we bring upon ourselves. Even if someone else is tempting us, we still have the power to open our mouths to say, " I don't eat that" and refuse the offer.

There is a big difference in saying "I can't eat that" versus "I don't eat that." Saying "I can't eat that" puts yourself in victim mode; it implies that you want to eat it, but someone or something outside of yourself is making you refuse. It sets up feelings of deprivation and resentment, which eventually leads to rebellion.

However, saying "I don't eat that" implies you are taking full responsibility for what you are putting in your mouth. "I choose not to eat that" works as well.

I hope you see now the futility of food fights. As we used to say in my old neighborhood, "Don't start none, won't be none!"

Kimberly Taylor

Take Back Your Temple
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