Now, that would trip me up ... because my inner perfectionist has a tendency to want to set the bar on my *best* effort, and say, "Now that's the *minimum* standard for *every* day" ... and that definitely triggers my inner rebel to want to just blow things up and be as "bad" as possible ... and my inner slacker to say, "Yeah, but that's too much effort today ... we'll do that tomorrow." :)

What has helped me is to steal a mantra from my yoga teachers and say, "With all that's going on today, whether it's outside circumstances or the crowd that lives in side me, what one thing can I do? Can I still do breakfast?" Opening up that space inside seems to allow me not to rebel, more often than not -- because usually the answer is, "Of course I can -- I *want* to!" and it unlocks me from all those voices with their conflicting agendas. :)

I still oh so often get stuck in the food-as-a-treat-because-life-is-so-demanding thing, though.

Pam

: I have a poster on my wall that says,
: "Excellence is the result of
: striving each day to do better
: than the last." I find this
: such a good reminder when my
: perfectionism tries to kick in
: again.

: Nancy P