Decision #4

Good Decision #4: a successful grocery shopping trip.

I realised, in the middle of grocery shopping, that if I counted every time I decided not to buy something unhealthy as a Good Decision, I'd run through the 1000 Decisions by the end of the week.

So I have decided to award myself one Good Decision for every shopping excursion on which I consistently make healthy choices.

This time, this included not buying myself a Diet Coke.  I had natural mineral water instead.  This is the issue most likely to torpedo any shopping trip.  I am addicted to Diet Coke.  My doctor tells me it's bad for me, my naturopath tells me it's bad for me, hell, reading the label tells me it's bad for me.  But it's one of my only vices (I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't drink coffee) so I've excused it away in the past as necessary - doesn't everyone need at least one vice? 

However, I now proclaim that my vice of choice is gaming - hidden object games, logic puzzles, sudoku, that kind of thing.  It's a vice because it interferes with me being active, so I would like to cut it back a bit, but it's not terminal, so I can indulge in it, feel wicked, and yet not completely wreck my process.

Diet Coke is no longer my vice.

If I say it often enough I might believe it.

The other issue which has arisen for me is:  if I make a Bad Decision, does that cancel out a Good Decision?  For example, if I decide not to eat junk food for lunch, but then have it for dinner, does the first decision count, or is it wiped out by the second?

I have been going around and around with this in my head, and I have decided that I am ignoring Bad Decisions.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the niggling, nit-picking, pedantic part of me which is urging that all Bad Decisions wipe out a Good one is the part that wants me to self-sabotage, because frankly keeping track of all that would be both difficult and discouraging.  So No!  A Bad Decision does NOT negate a Good Decision.  I will concentrate on the positives.

Possibly I will need to review this at the 100 decision mark, but we'll see.