Your Best Diet Plan Includes More Than a Dash of Self-Acceptance
Posted Jul 26 2010 3:14am
Think of one of the best things you ever did.
Think of one of the worst things you ever did.
So, you do good things, and “bad” things—just like everyone on the planet.
Why would being on a diet be any different? Can you suddenly become a very perfect person, one who does it all exactly right, one who never makes mistakes, one who is only “good”?
The quote: To err is human, to forgive is divine. (Alexander Pope)
Accept yourself for the slips, forgive yourself, and move on with your diet. That’s the surest route to your goal.
Think of one of the best things you ever did.
Think of one of the worst things you ever did.
So, you do good things, and “bad” things—just like everyone on the planet.
Why would being on a diet be any different? Can you suddenly become a very perfect person, one who does it all exactly right, one who never makes mistakes, one who is only “good”?
The quote: To err is human, to forgive is divine. (Alexander Pope)
Accept yourself for the slips, forgive yourself, and move on with your diet.
That’s the surest route to your goal.