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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

...I think that's why diets fail, we expect ourselves to be so perfect and if we backslide we think "oh what the hell I screwed it all up" which is a defense mechanism, as well as an excuse to go back to the unhealthy diet. For me, anyway.
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... and this.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

That's pretty much what I think IM. It's really easy to let your mind go slack and find all sorts of justifications for how it's ok to just give up. I think for me the important thing is to be conscious of these thoughts and control them instead of letting them control me.
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One chocolate, one slip, isn't failure. How a person reacts to it might be, however.
Keep up the good work, everyone!