The next time you are faced with a trigger food and find yourself feeling sorry for yourself, stop! Don't exhaust yourself by fighting imaginary enemies. Pull yourself together and make your choice. Decide whether you are going to walk away or exercise your option to eat that food - with full knowledge that if you eat it you'll have to wear it.

Whatever your choice, take responsibility for it and don't blame the diet, or the food, or the argument you had twenty minutes before. Don't complain about your weight and bore everyone with talk of how you're going to go on a diet.

Being thin is not a birthright. Neither is being able to have anything you want anytime you want. If you want to be thin, you must occasionally say no. And if you are going to say no you have to do it of your own free will. Such self-chosen avoidance isn't deprivation, it's liberation. And with each "No, thank you" you will gain a little more control, self-reliance, and self-esteem.


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