Splurge a Little

Dieting is not all about the foods you can't eat. However it is about maintain what you eat. Watch your normal diet to stay your normal weight, then cut when you need to loose some and add when you need to gain some. Maintaining eating the healthier foods is critical.

I say splurge a little. With the holidays fast approaching us, one can easily get off track. What I do to make sure I eat right and maintenance is to have one off meal a week, so I don't go over board. I get to eat one meal of anything I wish on the weekends as a reward to myself. I sometimes even eat cake or have ice cream during this meal, two things which are really bad for you if added regularly.

Doing this prevents me from cracking under the dieting pressure. If you are on such a strict diet you forget how bad those holiday foods can be on your body. Then you crack, and splurge on everything often over eating. Then you feel guilty. This routine reminds me how delicious this foods are, but also since my change in eating I feel the difference from these items more frequently. As a reminder I eat them only once a week to tell myself that I don't miss them.
Colby