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Cheating on your diet

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Written by Jim Chaput
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After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

The more I think about it, the more “cheating on your diet” is a strange idea. Are you in a monogamous relationship with your diet? Will your salad forgive you if you decide to have a sandwich?

Perhaps we need to rethink this idea. The food you eat sends signals to your body. The signals either move you towards your goals or away from them. When you decide to eat something that moves you away from your goals, you are not cheating, just taking a detour.

Some detours seem worth it, others not so much. It can be hard to know which is which and taking one detour often leads to more, so use them sparingly.

Are the detours you’re taking worth it?

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2 Comments

  1. Gladys
    Gladys on April 13, 2019 at 9:50 am

    It is nice to know I didn’t cheat yesterday, I just took a detour. Thanks.

    • Pat
      Pat on April 13, 2019 at 6:01 pm

      Good idea for improving self-talk.
      My new goal is to develop a more gentle inner voice (be less hard on myself.)