Eating a good food source provides an immediate gratification. Losing weight, feeling more energy, looking younger, fitting into your clothes, coming off medications: all of these are delayed gratification. What makes weight loss so difficult is that we to a large extent are an immediate gratification specie. It is difficult for us to delay the things we like to do/feel. We are battling lots of internal instinctual behaviors when we say "no" to a highcaloric food source.
I had a patient tell me yesterday : No food tastes as good as losing weight feels.
That is a great mantra and one to all incorporate to help us say "no" to food sources that will sabotage our efforts to lose weight and keep that weight off.
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