Recently, I had this "ding-ding" alarm going off in my car every now and then. At first, I ignored it (denial would work great if the problems went away!!), then the dinging increased in frequency. I couldn't figure out what the problem was. I looked in the manual, and I searched on the dash for information regarding the car's maintenance schedule. I took the car to the shop and they said there was no ding going off. So I took my car home and the dinging would continue. I took it to the dealership (left it there for several days to wait for them to get to my car), and they said there was no dinging (Murphy's law?), so I took it home. This dinging went on for at least 6 months, and every time it sounded, my adrenaline would spike: "Here's an alarm! Do something! Ding-Ding!" But I didn't know what I was supposed to do!! Help!
Finally, the dinging got so frequent, I once again took it to (another) dealership. I was desperate to have this alarm stopped. Fortunately, the dinging sounded when they test-drove the car. They were able to determine the cause (it was a faulty mechanism in the hatch back, "telling" the car that the hatch was open when, in fact, it was closed), fix it under the warranty, and I was free to go. On the way home, there was no "ding-ding". It was quiet. Amazing. I started to cry with relief! I hadn't realized how stressed out this alarm had made me.
How many times have we overeaten because of some circumstance we had no control over? How many times have we overeaten as a result of a stressful situation? And how many times have we overeaten out of sheer frustration? Too many to count, perhaps? There must be a better way to live.
I can find any excuse to overeat, on any given day. But when my world comes crashing down, I don't even need an excuse. The difficulty lies in my deciding to live differently. I can choose to respond differently to life than I have in the past.
How do you respond differently to life, so that you don't have to overeat anymore?
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