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The Effect of Self-Sabotage on Weight Loss
One of the stumbling blocks to weight loss is food gossip. Ever heard of this? It’s when you eat behind your own back and justify it with dishonest self-talk.
Don’t think that sounds like you?
What about making a plan to just eat salad for lunch, and then someone brings donuts into the office and you just can’t resist them? Or deciding to restart your diet on Monday, then seeing that last piece of pizza from the weekend staring you in the face?
But the donuts are free. And the pizza will go to waste if I throw it away.
You start arguing against those good intentions to lose weight. You talk yourself into abandoning your diet. Maybe you bad mouth yourself afterward, using some version of personal beat down to ratchet up guilt, blame and self-loathing over failing once again.
Why can’t I ever figure this out? I will never be able to lose this weight. You might say to yourself.
My specialty used to be overeating or drinking at night and then avoiding the scale to see my weight the next morning. If I don’t see the number, it doesn’t exist, right? Let’s just pretend those extra glasses of wine and bowl of ice cream never even happened.
Why is it so hard to tell ourselves the truth?
