Jim Katsoulis argues that fighting foods you love backfires. Instead, eat cookies and ice cream in smaller amounts to get more pleasure from them. Moderation through practice beats restriction for both happiness and weight control.
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Stop fighting against food when you want to lose weight. A much better strategy is one that may sound a little strange at first, but it's to begin asking the question, how can I get the most pleasure out of these foods? How can I get the most pleasure out of cookies? The most pleasure out of ice cream? Now, you may be thinking, well, that's a weird question. I'm just going to eat all of them. That's not really pleasurable. First of all, after you finish it, you feel totally full and you feel down mentally and emotionally. And then it puts the extra weight in your body where it makes you feel bad as well. So. So the real secret to creating pleasure from cookies and ice cream is to start eating them more moderately. So that way you get the taste and the flavor of them, but you also get to feel good. And that is the royal road to really taking control of your weight. Stop fighting with these foods and start training yourself and practicing to eat them more moderately, with a focus on how much more pleasure you get in your life when you eat this way.