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By Jennie Dore MS, RD, CDN
When you decide to recommit to your health or weight loss journey, what are the first things you think you have to do?
Be more strict?
Eliminate foods?
Intermittent fast?
Be told exactly what to eat?
More willpower?
These are actually many of the actions limiting you from seeing the progress you desire. You don’t need to be extreme to be successful. Following more rules and eliminating aspects of your life you enjoy is actually setting you up to feel restricted and giving power to these foods.
When we can’t have something we desire, we want it MORE. More often leads to access, and then feeling stuffed and guilty, which just continues to fuel the all-or-nothing diet rollercoaster.
Willpower is a temporary feeling. It is an emotion; emotions are fleeting. Instead of relying on temporary tactics, we need to create reliable strategies that set you up for success.