Week 4
Thinking Trap #2: “I’ll start the diet / again tomorrow”
There are two prominent findings from all the diet studies done over the years:
#1: All diets work.
#2: All diets fail.
Weight loss follows the same basic curve:
All diets in the short term seem to produce weight loss. By six to twelve months, weight loss plateaus, followed by a relentless regain. It’s not your fault, the diet was never going to work!
No other area of life would you think it makes sense to compound one mistake with another – i.e. I’ve blown it at lunch so I might as well REALLY blow it for the rest of the day!
Write a few “mistake analogies” of your own that don't make sense:
You send an email with a typo, so for the rest of the day, you add typos to all your EMAILS.
You miss your exit on the highway, you’ve blown it, so you stay on the highway for the next 5 hours.
·You drop 1 egg, so you throw the carton on the floor.
The gentler and kinder you are to yourself, the quicker you likely get back on track. Are you looking at the whole picture or just focusing on a mistake? Banish the words “cheat” or “I’m bad”. Eating is a NOT moral issue.
You were born good, you are good, eating can’t change that.
You deserve to be happy – regardless of how you eat.
You deserve to be proud of yourself – regardless of how you ate.