Small Hinges Open Big Doors
I was in Chicago last month with my boyfriend because he was attending a conference. I went and listened to one of the speakers and I couldn’t wait to share what he said with you all. While he was talking, he said something brilliant and I had to get out a notebook so that I could write down what he just said. After I heard it, I realized that it is the very same concept that I believe in and that I’ve said to you all over and over again. I will admit that the way he said it has a much greater impact. I had never heard it before, but perhaps some of you have. He said, “Small hinges open big doors”. I got so excited when I heard this because it can be applied to absolutely everything in a person’s life, including binge eating. Small hinges open big doors. Wow!
Sounds simple, right? So, what does this mean? It means what I have been saying now for some time. It is exactly how I overcame binge eating. I made little changes in my life and ultimately they produced big results: I stopped binge eating. Many people think that to achieve anything big in life, not just binge eating, drastic measures are needed. I’m here to tell you that is absolutely, positively NOT the way it works with binge eating. For whatever reason you have turned to food to self-medicate yourself for many years, so do you really think that it is possible for you to incorporate a huge change in your life and actually stick to it when you’ve been doing the opposite for so long? NO! Instead you are setting yourself up for failure because the change is so far out of reach.
Let me challenge you to incorporate small changes in your life so that you can beat binge eating disorder. Take a look at your life and see what things you can tweak and/or add to your life for a huge improvement. Small changes can be: buying a notebook and journaling about your feelings, keeping a food diary of the times that you binge and the times that you don’t and how you feel, reaching out for support, learning to release any built up stress by exercising, reaching for a piece of fruit to satisfy your sugar craving instead of candy, etc. Pick one small thing that you can do for the next week and try your best to stick to it. Then next week, pick another and keep building on this. Really just add one new thing to your life – you don’t want to end up overwhelming yourself!
It takes little changes in your life to ultimately conquer binge eating. Little things will add up, one by one and produce BIG results. Without small hinges on a door, it simply would not open. See what changes you can add to your life. See what you can tweak. Most importantly, keep in mind that it is little things that will help you get to your final result!