The Cause and Effect Cycle of Dieting
You restrict your food.
You tell yourself, “No, you cannot have that. It’s not for you.”
Food is forbidden, off-limits.
This feels terrible. Unjust. Unfair.
You rebel against the deprivation and scarcity.
If you cannot have the food you want outright, then you’ll take it any way that you can:
you sneak food, you steal food, you hide food.
You plot where you’re going to get it, how you’ll get it, if you need money and where you will get it.
It has become impossible to simply allow yourself to have the foods that you want. So, you go behind your own back.
Basically, you’re cheating on yourself.
Ultimately, you just don’t trust yourself.
When you don’t trust yourself, you rebel.
So this fantastic diet that was supposed to end your weight and eating struggles, did the opposite. It compounded them.