Ever go to the cabinet and look inside and see that enticing box of chocolate chip cookies or Girl Scout cookies? What stops you from eating half the box? If you are on a diet for weight loss you may shut the cabinet and opt for a carrot or celery stick instead. Joy!
Now what happens if you really want to stick to your diet plan but you just can't resist those Thin Mints? Or maybe it's a piece of cheesecake that is calling to you. Let's say you go ahead and indulge. Now what? Well if you are like the majority of people who are on a diet, the moment they "mess up" they call it quits on the diet. It's like, well, I have ruined my diet by eating this half box of cookies or piece of cake or whatnot, and now I might as well just give it all up.
So what do you do then? You know the answer -- you eat everything in sight with no regard to any diet plans anymore. Then the next day you continue with the eat-fest because you made that one mess-up yesterday.
The thing that you have to start remembering, or even realizing, is giving in to your cravings once in a while simply makes you human. It doesn't mean it's time to ditch the diet for weight loss that you've been on, and it doesn't mean you've "fallen off the wagon."
The fact is, if you don't give in once in a while, you are going to eventually, and then that will be it for the diet, and you can kiss weight loss good-bye. What you need to do is stop having the battles in your head and just go ahead and give in once in a while to those cravings. If you know in your head that you are not going to deprive yourself forever, you'll be more than likely able to stick to your guns "most" of the time.
And to lose weight and keep it off for good, that's all you have to ever do, stick to your good eating plan most of the time. Make those indulgences the exception and not the rule, yes?
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