A four-step technique to resist unhealthy foods without willpower: relax your body, create mental distance from the craving, imagine how you'll feel five minutes after eating it, then picture yourself at your goal weight. Repeat until saying no becomes automatic.
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The better food choice technique. This is a simple technique you can use anytime you feel tempted by an unhealthy food that's simple and easy and doesn't require a lot of willpower. So the first thing you want to do when you see that food is you want to bring your attention into your body. Relax your shoulders, relax your chest, relax your stomach. Take a deep breath in and slowly let it out, relaxing your body. The next thing we want to do is relax our mind and imagine that we feel indifferent for this food just to give ourselves a little bit of distance from it psychologically. The next thing we want to do is we want to ask the question, how am I going to feel five minutes after I finish eating that food? And think about that answer. And the final step is to connect to your weight loss goal. Imagine yourself in your body at your goal weight as the person who you want to be. And when you do all four of these steps repeatedly, you're very quickly going to build up your ability to easily and effortlessly say no to unhealthy foods.