Including foods you love

If you are finding yourself trying to eliminate foods that you overeat, labelling them 'bad' in your head, you are always going to want more and more of that food. For example, if you love chocolate but eat too much of it you may be saying to yourself when you eat it "I'll just have this bit, or few rows, then tomorrow i'll eat perfectly". This is dieting midset. It is the last supper mentality. And for some of you, this process can happen everyday.

So how do you overcome it? Here's a few tips

* think about all the foods you would eat again if it was your last meal ever
* how many of those foods do you actually eat now?
* how many of those foods have you banned yourself from?
* how many of those foods do you overeat when you start eating them?
* take away the concept of any 'bad' foods
* one by one, start including the foods that you love, everyday.

for example - i really love peanut butter but in the past i would eat way too much of it. So i banned it from the house. I could not consume it in healthy quantitys so i chose to eliminate it totally. Then i decided, if i want it everyday, i can have it everyday. Now that permission is there, i dont want it as much as i thought i did. So now i eat it when i really really feel like it, then i really really enjoy it.

So try and work your favourite foods into your diet, trust yourself to eat them when you really really feel like them. Life is too short to miss out on the things we love!