So many people pig out before they start their diets.
They think that since they are going to start, they might as well eat everything they are going to miss in enormous quantities.
This really is a horrible way to start anything! You really need to ease into your diet, perhaps while eating a few special foods, but not an extra 5000 or so calories a day.
Here are 5 ways to help ease into your diet.
1) Try to have one healthy meal a day.
Maybe you have oatmeal for breakfast or a salad for lunch, or skip seconds for dinner.
Eating three out of control meals before starting will make starting tougher for sure.
2) Start exercising before your diet starts.
Just ease into it.
Maybe a walk at lunch, or taking the stairs instead of the elevator, but just about anything.
3) Stop pigging out.
Eat anything you'd like, including those special food you will miss, but not quantities all the time.
4) Clean out the junk food ahead of time.
No, don't eat it all, just some of it, but if you have enormous stores of potato chips, candy, non diet soda, etc.
get rid of it before starting! You will thank yourself later.
5) Mentally prepare yourself.
You will be good, and should you slip, it's only a temporary setback.
You will lose weight and must believe it.
Mindset really does matter.
What you do before starting your diet can have as much effect on success or failure as what you do after you start!