I started a diet this week. I’ve been on a diet since I was a young teenager, but last year I thought I had found The Secret.<\/p>\n
I did this cleanse a year and a half ago. I figured out dairy was a problem for me. So I stopped eating dairy and I felt fantastic! I recommend the cleanse, you can check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A lot happened in that year and a half. I stopped eating dairy, and huge changes whirled around me. The sort of changed that I knew would normally have tipped the scale. Yet I wasn’t ‘dieting’ and I was still staying the same.<\/p>\n I was SURE I had found The Secret.<\/p>\n Only where did these ten pounds come from? Damn. Back to the diets.<\/p>\n Yesterday I was reading this woman’s essay about addiction. She was determined for the first time in her adult life to give up pot. She wrote this piece early in the process–day 5? day 8?–and she was raw. Raw and\u00a0powerful.<\/p>\n Here’s what she said:<\/p>\n The only way to quit is to never quit quitting.<\/p>\n There is it.<\/p>\n You and I might find The Secret to some thing we’ve been struggling with. Maybe it’s a new way of looking at it. Maybe it’s in a book, or a flash of inspiration on the road to Damascus.<\/p>\n Only after a while, the Secret wears off and it’s back to what it’s always been.<\/p>\n The only way to do it is to always be doing the thing you are trying to do.<\/p>\n The only way to quit is to never quit quitting.<\/p>\n There will be times when it’s easier. There there will be the rest of the times.<\/p>\n That’s no secret.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I started a diet this week. I’ve been on a diet since I was a young teenager, but last year I thought I had found The Secret. I did this cleanse a year and a half ago. I figured out … Continue reading