This is how part 1 ended:
This was a conscious choice that I made to cheat on my food allergy diet, it not a medical condition like asthma. It is 100% a choice of living in denial, that my excuse, “I can cheat just a little, because it doesn’t affect anyone but me.”
Because of my conscious choice of “cheating”, it affected me by being sick even thinking I may not make it through the night.
But it also affected my husband because he took care of me. It also affected our budget. We do not have $500 of indispensable income. It also affected my daughter because today, she wanted me to go shopping with her. It also affected an out of town visitor and her children, because we were not able to see them again while they were visiting and I had promised her son I would cook and bake with him.
I know that there will be things that I accidently eat (ie while traveling and not getting all the ingredients in the spices or sauces).
But today, I choose not to cheat on purpose.
Today I still have to live with the consequences of cheating since Thanksgiving.
Just today I have spent $270. Earlier this week I spent almost $100 on a chiropractic appointment and vitamins. A week and half ago we spent over $100 on other “Natural products”.
So this “choice to cheat” cost almost $500 out of pocket expense…just because I said “it’s not that bad. I didn’t cheat that much and it will only affect me.”
I am the co-author of a program called The 180 Program. In the foundational piece called New Beginnings week 4 is on Excuses. In this week we look at all the people that you make excuses for and all the people that make excuses for you. We also look at a cycle of what happens when we allow others and ourselves to stay in that cycle of excuse making also known as living in denial.
As we enter 2017, I have a serious question:
Are you ready to get off the cycle of insanity? You have to do it for you! If you do it for anyone else, it will not become a new behavior you are invested in for you and only you.
Are you ready to say NO MORE EXCUSES?
Feel free to download the sample week 4 and do the work. I would love to hear your feedback.