You’re ‘on a diet’. You eat healthy food and exercise for the few days. Then you have a mental slip and grab the nearest packet of chips, ice cream or similar ‘unhealthy’ product. You eat the entire packet or tub or bowl and then feel immensely guilty. You tell yourself that you’re a failure, that you’ve ruined your entire diet and that you may as well go back to your previous lifestyle.
Why is this? Why do we think like this? It’s actually quite an illogical way to think. Sure you ate one packet of chips but in the grand scheme of things that one off isn’t going to diminish your fitness nor is it going to make you put all your weight back on! You’ve taken a little step back but you’ve probably already taken several more steps forward. Don’t quit now, start moving in the right direction again!
Don’t think of your healthy eating as a ‘diet’. If you would like the change in your body to be sustainable think of it as a lifestyle change. You’re not really going to give up chocolate, chips & ice cream forever are you? It’s okay to have a treat every now and then—- think of these things as ‘sometimes’ foods rather than ‘bad’ or ‘diet-destroying’ foods. It also makes it much easier for you when you realise that you can have these foods occasionally; once they lack the quality of being ‘taboo’ or ‘forbidden’ you’re less likely to crave them.
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