If I told you there was one simple thing you could do to lift yourself up after you ate badly? It’s ridiculous to expect perfection, especially when it comes to dieting. As a delightfully imperfect human being, you may “slip” at some point on your healthy adventure. And that’s fine. It’s to be expected.
[shareable cite=”Connie Bennett”]If you blow your diet, self-compassion can lift you up and get you back on course.[/shareable]But when or if you fall off the wagon,” what you do matters.
If you use your binge as an excuse to beat up on yourself, you’ll pave the way for more failure and inevitable weight gain.
If, on the other hand, after you slip and eat sugar, carbs or other unhealthy snacks, you can ultimately succeed if you shower yourself with kindness, self-compassion, and understanding.
In fact, a growing body of research reveals that self-compassion is exactly what you need when you start or blow your diet or if you need help to get back on track, according to Kristin Neff, Ph.D., author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself.
For instance, compassion can help you:
- To calm yourself after you blow your diet.
- Self-compassion triggers oxytocin, the “feel-good” hormone.
- To say to yourself if you’ve overeaten or done something else self-destructive.
- To do a self-hugging practice, which makes you feel good.
- And so much more.
By the way, self-compassion helped me quite a bit in during the challenging time after losing my mother.
Learn now about the many benefits of compassion from Dr. Neff, during our interview on my Gab with the Gurus Show.