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How to stick to my strict diet?
I keep cheating with unhealthy food each day. Tomorrow I'll start over, but I wanted to know if anyone had any tips and advice on how to strictly stay on my diet.
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Changing your heating habits on a large scale can be quite difficult. The best way around what you are experiencing is to try and find an alternative way around your binges of unhealthy foods. For example if it is a sudden need for sugary products that temps you to eat unhealthy then try an alternative to chocolate. Dark chocolate that is high in Cacao content (65%+) helps a lot with this and it only takes a small square or two whereas milk chocolate doesn't have this effect and is also very high in sugar. Other alternatives I found useful were nuts or grapes which I would keep with me so when I felt like I needed to eat something or felt I need something sweet I had those on hand. It might mean you are adding something additional to your diet but it also means what you are adding is something that is healthier than most things. Once you get into this routine and pull yourself away from unhealthy foods it'll only be a matter of time before you won't crave anything unhealthy at all. But do remember that you can treat yourself when you feel like it, perhaps one meal a week on a weekend but this would be up to you.
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There is NO tomorrow there is only right now. You have to get with your diet now or you'll have countless false starts and not get where you want. If you keep re-setting every day then there's no point. It's tough and you need to ask yourself how badly do you want it? Right now there's no commitment or burning passion or desire there. There's no real goal associated with the diet. That's why you aren't making progress.
You really have to think that you want to be healthy, free of diabetes and to weigh the proper amount and be happy as your goal and stick to the healthy eating. Any time you wind up where you have a choice of healthy food or junk remind yourself of where you really want to get to and walk away and do something to distract yourself if need be. When you say NO to that voice in your head a few times it will soon become automatic and you won't gravitate to wanting it.
While your healthy diet is a strict one you don't need to be absolutely frigging miserable on it or feeling left out. There are creative ways to make really tasty dishes you would like with the restrictions you have. You just need to search for recipies and start experimenting in the kitchen until you can get it down to things you actually want to eat.
You should see a dietitian or a nutritionist for this. They may find healthy recipies to create some of the same exact things you love but in a different way that meets all the requirements of the diet. Reach out to one through your doctor.
You also need exercise daily be it walking, biking or swimming or in a gym as that along with diet will get you in the healthy zone they want you to reach faster and something you can sustain long term without hiccups.
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There is really only one way: when you have the opportunity to cheat on your diet... you don't. You make the conscious, deliberate decision to exercise willpower and leave the cookie in the jar, the soda can unopened, the bacon on the serving plate.
Of course, it helps if you can see too it that the tempting choices aren't even there, but in the end it's always going to come down to you making the choice to stick to it.
One thing that helps is your state of mind when you're abstaining from certain foods. Don't think to yourself, "I can't have this because of my diet." Instead, think to yourself, "I COULD have this, but I choose not to." Your freedom to eat what you want hasn't been taken away; rather, you are assuming control over what you eat.
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