Opening Pandora's Lunch Box

01/11/08 The Emotional and Psychological Side of Weight Control

That a cupcake is just a cupcake. Will she go mad and eat every cupcake in town, breaking into the cupcake boutique, destroying as she consumes like Godzilla? Will she put on 200 pounds and have to wear a tent for a dress, sleeveless because her arm flab wouldn't even fit in tent sleeves? Become unable to walk on her own, having to be rolled away like the blueberry girl, Violet Beauregarde,  in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? 

The nightmare is resolved and the bad guy disappears when the dreamer is willing to look him in the face and see him for what he is -- her creation.

One of these days, Lola may decide "A cupcake is just a cupcake; I can have one anytime I want." As a result, she might figure, "If they're not off limits, then I can actually have just one 'cause this ain't the last cupcake on earth. Really, it's not." And once she ate one, Lola might even decide, "You know what, cupcakes are kind of too sweet. I don't even like them that much. If I'm going to blow 300 calories on something it might as well be something I really like." 

We'll never know until she's willing to open Pandora's lunch box and find-out.