Health Tips

How many times have you said: “I was bad yesterday, I ate two cookies!”. OK, we all do it but you may be surprised to learn how much you are harming your chances of successful dieting by looking at food this way.

The danger is that you create negative thoughts about food and associate eating the wrong type of food with a type of behavior called ‘being bad’. Now, whenever you feel the urge, you just have to ‘be bad’ and you can sit and eat whatever you like. And you can answer the nagging voice in your head by saying, it’s OK, all you were doing was ‘being bad’.

Of course, we all need to (and we should) relax the rules from time to time but it does you no favors having an easy ‘get out’ clause to use whenever you want to do something you shouldn’t do. Stop thinking of yourself as being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and just say to yourself that you follow the rules of your diet, or your healthy eating plan, for most of the time but you reserve the right to break them sometimes.

Now, when you feel the need to relax the rules, you can do so because your natural feeling for what is right will step in to prevent you going too far or for going on too long.

What you say now is: “I broke the rules yesterday, I ate two cookies!”. Now this is quite different for now you will feel guilty and this limits the damage that you do to your eating plan.