Love your diet!

Remember the post where I discussed that you should never follow another person's diet and instead you should write your own? Well this is true, and for a diet to work you have to write one that you love. In other words including all the foods you love to eat. For example, if you love cheesies, they should be on your diet! Maybe not everyday, and I also caution, that I would choose the baked ones because you can eat more of them because they have less calories. Remember you are allotted a certain number of calories a day, so you have to measure out the cheesies so you know exactly how many calories you are eating. Now I am sure there are those of you out there that are saying, but I won't just stop at one bowl, I will eat the whole bag. That is part of the challenge of dieting, is learning how to eat-stop-eat. You will get to eat another bowl of cheesies later in the week, so learn to wait for them. If you sit down and "be present" with the bowl you have then you will have a better chance of stopping once you are finished. Remember we are set up to "overeat" in our society. If you are really struggling with putting the bag away, then find a convenience store that sells individual servings and just go to the store and buy the single serving bag when your diet calls for it. That way you can't overeat the whole large bag.
Now for me, I don't have cheesies on my diet because I can't afford too many calories from carbs. On my diet you will see a protein bar, or eat some greek yoghurt with oatmeal instead. But these are things I love to eat. I did have cheesies on my diet at one time, but now I am trying to find ways to get more protein in my diet, so I took them off. I also took dark chocolate off my diet and replaced it with a bowl of frozen fruit with a couple tablespoons of light cream. I found that I could eat a lot more fruit for the same amount of calories and I don't really like chocolate all that much. It is addictive, but you can also have coffee or a latte with a lot less calories and get the same taste. But that doesn't mean you should follow my diet plan. If you prefer chocolate, keep it on your diet. Good luck and remember, you have to love your diet because your maintenance plan is only a small step away from that.