On a more meta-level what if you just applied the same trick but to deciding to not make the bad decision? It’s a double negative on purpose because perhaps you would gain information on why you are not comfortable not eating the donut or snoozing the alarm, but only if you are go through the machinations of the double negative in your head. This is a trick I’ve been using more and more.
Something like: Tasty donut feeling → awareness of want → awareness of diet goals that contradict this want → awareness that you have a choice to make → deciding not to make the wrong choice to see what would happen → experience of not eating the donut → (experiential data: feeling hungry, feeling tired, feeling grumpy, etc. and positing reasons for why those things occurred) → next time you get the tasty donut feeling, you actually have more data than if you just ate the donut.
On a more meta-level what if you just applied the same trick but to deciding to not make the bad decision? It’s a double negative on purpose because perhaps you would gain information on why you are not comfortable not eating the donut or snoozing the alarm, but only if you are go through the machinations of the double negative in your head. This is a trick I’ve been using more and more.
Something like: Tasty donut feeling → awareness of want → awareness of diet goals that contradict this want → awareness that you have a choice to make → deciding not to make the wrong choice to see what would happen → experience of not eating the donut → (experiential data: feeling hungry, feeling tired, feeling grumpy, etc. and positing reasons for why those things occurred) → next time you get the tasty donut feeling, you actually have more data than if you just ate the donut.