Imagine a chessboard covered with black and white pieces. You are the white pieces, your carbohydrate cravings are the black pieces. The good white pieces are on one side of the board, the bad black carbohydrate cravings are on the other side. You get on the back of the white queen and ride into battle, fighting the war against your carbohydrate cravings. The problem is huge portions of yourself, your carbohydrate cravings, are your enemy. If you need to be in this war, there’s something wrong. You’re also on the same level as your carbohydrate cravings, so they can be as big or bigger than you are. The more you fight your carbohydrate cravings, the bigger they get. If you are not willing to have your carbohydrate cravings, you’ve got them. The more you fight your cravings, the more central they are to your life – more habitual, more domineering, more linked to every area of living. If you knock enough cravings off the board, you can eventually dominate them. But the opposite happens. Your cravings can’t be knocked off the board. Every time you knock a craving off the board, two come back. You can’t win, as long as you are fighting, because cravings keep coming. When you’re on the back of the white queen, fighting is your only choice, because the your carbohydrate cravings seem life threatening. Living in the war zone is no way to live. I’ll tell you a secret. You are not the chess pieces. You are the board. Without the board, the pieces have no place to be. The board holds the pieces. If you are the pieces, the game is very important. But if you’re the board, the war doesn’t matter. As the board, you can see all the pieces, you can hold them, you are in contact with them, you can watch the war, but it takes no effort.