Anyone who says you don’t need willpower to stay on the SLD regimen is not being honest. ANY change in behavior — ANY habit you are trying to make or break — takes willpower. Maybe not as much as you would need to get to the Olympics as a competitive athlete, but yeah, you need some.
This morning was an excerise in willpower, for me. As you might remember, yesterday evening I barely ate at all (well, two Guinness beers is KINDA sorta dinner…heh…). This morning I woke up starving. Not the panicked, emotionally-driven starving I’m used to, but the genuine hunger pangs of my body growling for food.
But I normally eat a very small breakfast (juices or fruit), have a cup of coffee, and then take my SLD dosage at about 11:30am. By 10am my coffee was not cutting it and my lunch was looking good, but I really did not want to blow out my schedule. So I didn’t.
It was not easy, even if it was not exactly the worst hour of my life. But I got to my SLD dose a bit early and then the hunger was gone. The rest of the day went really well; light rice and beans for lunch, and yeah, Welsh Rarebit for dinner (the British version of heart-attack on a plate: porter beer, heavy cream, and cheese mixed into a sauce to serve over toast) but not a huge serving. And no snacking after that.
Will power: ya gotta have it, sometimes.
