October 2009
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Don’t Allow Self Deceit to Sabotage Your Weight Loss Plan #27
lose weight 27 Oct 2009 | : top 100 weight loss tips
Here we go again with another of these Top 100 Weight Loss Tips. This post is article number 27 in the series and is here to provide another great tip to help you lose weight. As with all articles published on this website, this is an original article written for weightlossgo.com and is copyright protected. This post looks at a common trait in people who end up sabotaging their own weight loss chances by self deception.
How You Can Deceive Yourself Over Losing Weight
Its easy enough to do when you slip into bad habits, but self deceit occurs when you think you’re doing fine and then think its ok to treat yoruself to one little snack that is in reality off limits. It starts with a nibble at a barbecue or party. The cold buffet is spread out before you and you’re a real champion at resisting all the tempting empty calories on display, but as the time wears on, you start to tell yourself that its ok to maybe have just one bite. Especially as you already lost two pounds or whatever this week and you’re feeling good.
So you bite into a breaded chicken nugget or a small savory pastry, or maybe a chocolate cream cup cake and it tastes good. You walk away and as far as you can see, there is no harm done. But the beginnings of self deceit have crept in and while you’ve managed to convince yourself that there was no harm done by eating that little treat, you probably just loaded up 100 or so empty calories. But once is ok, you tell yourself.
But once is never enough, is it?
Once that self deceit has gotten past your solid wall of willpower, the next occasion to cheat will soon follow, but it doesn’t feel like cheating because you’re doing it in plain sight of everyone, right?
Wel, this starts you on the slipper slope to failure so your only form of defense here is to absolutely not allow yourself to believe that one little snack is ok. If its part of your calorie controlled diet and the snack is actually a healthy one, then its ok, but otherwise you may not know what you are eating or what went into making it and could easily slip into a downward spiral of self deceit believing that because it loos small then its ok. Its not!
Eradicate any self deceit before it gets a chance to take hold of you and destroy your will power to succeed.
100 Weight Loss Tips number 26 follows in the next post!
