BATTLE OF YOUR WILLS
Discipline. It’s the key to success on your path to a healthy relationship with food.
By Stephanie Philosophos
“When you woke up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?’
“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh.
“What do you say, Piglet?”
“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Pooh enjoys the simple things in life. But it’s oddly disturbing watching this cuddly character search for the scarce resource of honey in the Hundred Acre Woods. Once he does find it, Pooh puts all else aside and stuffs himself senseless. He seems to be overly attached to what gives him pleasure and comfort: sweet foods. He even goes as far as to refuse to follow the collective notion of time; to keep up his habit, he sets his clock to show the same time, all the time. “Then it is always the right time for a little something.”
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