378: Overcoming the 'No Point in Stopping Now' Excuse
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we cover a scenario that may be familiar. You start drinking and then convince yourself to continue because "Why stop now?" This mindset isn't just about alcohol; it can also happen with food and spending. Many of us develop a habit of letting things like an empty glass or a finished package override our feelings of fullness.
Listen to understand why we make this excuse and how to stop, even after you've begun. Learning to stop is a key step in teaching your brain to manage cravings. Understand why accepting that mistakes are part of the journey and not a sign of failure.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart episode 378. |
| 0:06.8 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:12.0 | from the inside out. |
| 0:14.0 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:20.0 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking |
| 0:27.9 | Now here's your host Rachel Hart all right everybody welcome back. We are talking today about the excuse. There's no point stopping now. I'm sure that you have had this excuse bubble up for you at times as well. |
| 0:44.0 | Maybe you open the beer, you poured the glass of wine, |
| 0:47.5 | you had the first sip, |
| 0:49.0 | and then it's like, there's no point stopping now. |
| 0:52.0 | Why do we insist that this is true? |
| 0:55.0 | Because we do this with alcohol, |
| 0:57.0 | but I think we do it with a lot of things. |
| 0:58.0 | It's like you unwrap the candy bar, |
| 1:00.0 | you open the bag of chips, |
| 1:01.0 | and it's like, there's no point stopping now. Might as well keep going. We approach so much of the things that we consume with this all or nothing mindset. I think there's a lot of reasons why this happens. |
| 1:12.8 | Some of it has to do with idea of the Clean Plate Club |
| 1:16.6 | or the Clean Glass Club, this idea that we use the container, so the plate or the package or the glass or the bottle to dictate when we're done. |
| 1:28.0 | A lot of us, myself included, have a long pattern of doing that. For most people it starts well before they ever start |
| 1:35.8 | drinking. It starts with food. That we use external objects to signal when we've had enough |
| 1:42.0 | rather than tuning into ourselves. |
| 1:44.3 | I will tell you something. |
| 1:45.9 | When this excuse comes up for you, there's no point stopping now. |
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