It is really amazing how those old habits can rear their ugly heads. I mixed up a bowl of tuna salad with the right proportions of mayo, minced onion, chopped grapes and pecans to match the volume of tuna in the can. It's about twice as much as I need to eat for lunch. I made my plate of tuna salad, Wasa crackers, tomato soup and plain okra, ate it, and promptly headed back to the kitchen with my fork already deployed, ready to eat the rest of the tuna salad.
I stopped myself at the last second and went for a stick of gum instead. That was a close one.
It's not that those calories would be insurmountable. It's that the habits are all so very fragile, and we need to build up our strength of will every chance we get. Willpower is nothing but the sum of all your difficult decisions made right.
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