by Maria's Last Diet
What if you don't stick to your diet plan tonight?
What will happen if you have the dessert you've been wanting?
What if you feel your self esteem slipping and you fill up so you don't notice?
What will become of you and your weight-loss goal if you do things like this?
Would you be surprised to learn that you might get to your weight-loss goal faster, surer, better?
Take a lesson from error management training where participants are encouraged to make errors and learn from them.
The idea is to develop better cognitive and emotional control by perceiving and using your mistakes as learning experiences. After all, most of our learning has to do with reducing the kind and frequency of errors we make.
Do you see what this will do when you accept dieting mistakes? You will be seeing your dieting mistakes as just that - mistakes, not failures. Here are some ways you can learn from them?
As you probably know, there can be a variety of emotions connected with dieting - frustration, guilt, anxiousness, anger, to name just a few. Dieting slips lead to these kinds of feelings. But you can think about a slip differently. You can use a dieting mistake as a learning tool and really cut down on these negative feelings.
Making mistakes, accepting them, and learning from them, will help you monitor yourself more effectively. You can then revise your strategies for solving dieting dilemmas and actively take charge when obstacles arise. The trick is to build your plans with your mistakes in mind.
So go ahead and have that piece of pie, fall off your diet on the weekend and fail to go back on Monday. Have a fight with your teenage daughter and head right for the chips and cookies. Remember, if you use these mistakes (yes, mistakes, not crimes) to learn, you are building a more successful weight-loss program, one that is bound to take you to your weight-loss goal.