The thought alone can cause anxiety that drives you to that vice. So in the same way someone in Alcoholics Anonymous is instructed to just deal with just today, today, do the same with fast food.
Don’t create too much mystique around fast food. Don’t put it on a pedestal, or tell yourself it’s a bad, bad thing. What happens when we feel something is off-limits? We immediately want more of it. Know that you can have fast food any time you want—you’re an adult—and then, you may not crave it very often.
The earlier, the better.
“Give her some Doritos, too. Don’t be a hog,” a mother told her teenage son on the train, pointing to her daughter that couldn’t have been any older than six. “Pass her Doritos?” I thought to myself. “Naw, she definitely needs to chill on that.” This dialogue happened nearly six months ago, and it’s still heavy […]