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Originally Posted by LWilson212
Take it one step at a time. Set a goal for this week that you know you can achieve, maybe that you will eat enough protein. Then set another one for the next week. Maybe it will take you six months to get in the habit of clean eating, but it will be six months well spent. I know I did not transform my eating habits overnight.
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I second that. Being a perfectionist, I'm an all or nothing person, too. It irritates the crap out of me that I can't know everything and get everything right from the get-go. But, now I just set my obsessive sights on one little bit at a time, channel my evil powers for good, and things are gradually improving. (For example, upping protein levels or learning everything there is to know about broccoli or how metabolism works, etc)
What also helps me is to think of it all as a big science experiment and I'm both the guinea pig and the mad scientist. I'm not an emotional type myself but I'd imagine that viewing it that way might help remove some of the emotional attachments? Or not. Just thought.