Striving for perfect

I'm still thinking a lot about this idea of striving for perfect.  I honestly have a horrible habit of the all or nothing diet approach and I've made great progress to move away from it, but its not easy.  If I indulge on something, I am more likely to think "well this day is shot, I'll be good again tomorrow".  This got me in to bit trouble because tomorrow was never a good day.  Anyways, once again as I start to dig in to a new diet I am overwhelmed with the need to do it all the way or not at all.  I am managing this impulse, but its still there, in the back of my head.
I was thumbing through the book Primal Body - Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas and she wrote the following, which I think is a great way to approach nutrition and health. "Become very conscious of food and beverage choices.  Live consciously, are you eating something that is likely to promote your health or constitue a backslide.  Read labels carefully. Do not fear occassional indulgences,  just make them occasional and be fully aware of the choices you make".  I love the line about not fearing indulgences, yet be aware of them.  What are you eating and why.  Sometimes the answer is going to be, in my case, chocolate because I'm stressed and I want some, and thats okay!  I don't have to feel bad about it and I don't have to feel like I've ruined my progress because I ate something that was more of a backslide nutritionally. 

An idea I am toying with and will wait until I get my book I ordered and can read more, is intermitant fasting, which is something like, don't eat for 24 hours, or maybe 18 hours, or maybe start with a smaller timeframe like skipping a meal.  Do this once a week or once a month.  The idea is to become more tuned in to your body and learning to not fear hunger.  Do you fear hunger?  I know I do sometimes, but why?  I've never had to go without food.  I've never been starving.  Yet somehow, I fear being hungery and need to eat anytime I think I feel hungry.  Our culture is conditioned to fear being hungry, finish whats on our plate, eat grains because its in the pyramid, eat this eat that.  I am very interested to see if I can do it first of all.  Why not!?  It won't kill me, thats for sure.  I will write more on this later and will definately write up my experience when I decide to try it, likely a few weeks from now.  I know Matt would have no problem as he already skips meals and goes for long periods of time without eating because he forgets or is busy.  Not sure this counts as listening to his body vs ignoring what it is telling him because he is busy, but either way, he will do much better at this than me, I'm sure of it!
Thats all for today, just needed to do a little brain dump.  Oh yeah, haven't had grains since Monday and I don't crave them or feel deprived of them because I've been eating so much great food!