Suellio’s trick

Remember that car racing driver? He had this thing where he would kind of loose focus while he was driving. Actually, it wasn’t losing of focus; instead, it was not remembering to push. The thing with racing is that you need a high level of concentration to continue pushing. This is because a normal lap – a non push lap – has similar characteristics as a push lap. It is 99% the same. So, when the push lap happens, its all about that 1% marginal change which can result in the fast times.

Dieting is the same way. On a regular day, you are doing a normal lap. But, if you are in a diet, you need to constantly remind yourself to push. Until at least it becomes second nature. The push here is eating 1800 calories or less. Remember that this is all it takes. It is a Grand Prix. In this grand prix, each lap has to be a push lap (I guess its more like a sprint). So you have to constantly remind yourself somehow. Trick your brain to overcome the 30 years of eating habits. No wonder it is so hard.

Food is self preservative. Your body is tuned to eat and save. That’s 34 years of fucking history. I need to break out of this. To break out of it, I need to know where I am going. The Beck book does a good job about that. Maybe re-read that.

So anyway, come up with some tricks and reminders. Simple — one line.