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When to Cheat on Your Diet! (If You Aren't Cheating, You Might Not Succeed!)

One of the factors about diets that many people don’t seem to realize is the real nature of a diet – people have come to accept that a ‘diet’ is a temporary thing – and that as soon as you lose the weight, you can go back to eating sugar, cake, donuts, breads, and so on. (I hail from a firm belief that low-carb is the natural diet of mankind)

But if you want to lose weight – you have to change the habits of a lifetime that put that weight on – and then you must remain with your new habits for the rest of your life. So forget the idea that you can simply jump on a diet for a few weeks or a month or two, then go back to your old eating (and exercising!) habits. All that will happen is that you’ll gain your weight back.

So what allows someone to stay on a diet for the rest of their life? One trick is to allow yourself to cheat from time to time. I eat low-carb – but that doesn’t mean I don’t eat bread, for example. I simply limit my bread to a few slices of toast on a Saturday breakfast. I’ve made a rule for myself that during the yearly family reunion, I’ll eat whatever I want. Then when I go back home, it’s back to my normal (low-carb) eating habits. Read more…