Comments on: Know Your Addictions

By: Grognor

Grognor — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:06:52 +0000

I already knew LeechBlock was a good idea, but this article finally got me to install it. It hasn’t solved my problem, but it helps.

By: Francelle

Francelle — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:55:18 +0000

I know some people have a hard time with this because of a hesitancy to “waste” food, but should the bread-avoiding patron forget to ask the server to not bring bread, or should the patron remember to request that the server not bring bread, but the busy server forgets and ends up setting bread down on the table, the patron has not forfeited his / her chance to have the bread removed. (We don’t help starving children by eating excess food ourselves. Of course people recognize this, but they don’t always act as though they do.)

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:19:48 +0000

In reply to Emaleah. Nice example!

By: Emaleah

Emaleah — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:45:09 +0000

I didn’t even know these website blockers existed, what a great idea, thanks! One of the main examples of addiction I see all the time is addiction to a destructive relationship. I have friends who are in perpetual cycles of “cutting themselves off” a bad partner, then being “unable to resist” when s/he calls, are briefly happy when they’re getting the attention they want, and finally lapse into a desperate, sad state of withdrawal between liaisons (and so on, ad nauseam). It’s one thing to be realistic about chips or WoW, harder to make healthy choices where the heart (and loins) are concerned!

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:02:45 +0000

I’ve controlled the diet by going to a regular sesion with a dietist, once every week to prepare a weekly regime. I do this regime perfect most of the time so it works. Exersice avoidance is something big for me now, I’ve used the same strategy and when the instructors are availiable it works, the problem is that right now both of them are very unreliable (a boxing instructor Wendsday and Friday and a swimming instructor thuesday, thursday and saturday) they keep moving classes and I’ve allready paid them. This irregularity (by understandable motives of both instructors have to say) is messing with my plan. So I will have to wait the sessions end and then get new instructors, reliable one this time.

Facebook, Youtube and Google Reader are causing me troubles too. I’ll see if I can install this program you give.

Eclipse’s link doesn’t work, and a search in Google gives me results for another eclipse. Can you fix that?

By: Rusty Ashbaugh

Rusty Ashbaugh — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:38:42 +0000

I think you are right on the money with this one. I do much better with dieting if there are no “bad” foods in the house.

I am also working on telling myself that “unnecessary hunger” is just my body telling me that it is burning off unnecessary fat (my gut!). So “hunger” is a good thing and doesn’t have to be “satisfied.” Obviously I don’t want to get carried away with this “programming.” I guess I like quotation marks too.