by Katerina Nikolas

Created on: April 28, 2010

Seduced into believing that the latest diet is the one which really will work and shift those stubborn pounds you’ve been harbouring, it is extremely easy to become disillusioned fast. As you face yet another bowl of cabbage soup for breakfast, you have to begin to wonder if this diet really does make any sense, and even a serving of previously spurned bran flakes begins to have some appeal. Often the point of cheating on your diet is that your body is objecting to the very diet itself, and is in revolt, despite your best intentions.

Two days into the diet which has you drinking a nightly laxative followed the next morning by a gallon of absolutely foul salt water, will leave you chained to the bathroom as your body suffers at this unnatural abuse. Maybe it is time to listen to your body and cheat, and have a plain yogurt to settle your stomach. There are certainly good reasons to cheat on a diet like that, as your brain begins to receive the message your body sends. This diet is patently not right for you.

Have you been tempted to cheat on your diet of nothing but a never ending supply of frozen ready diet meals which you rashly committed your credit card to, before even tasting one of these processed delights? Maybe the diet sent your body into cravings for some actual fresh food, even though you know you should not be deviating from the packet foods, according to the instructions.

Possibly you are tempted to cheat when a computer program has spewed out your individual diet plan based on a rather spurious notion that you are actually intolerant of a totally non fattening food, and common sense tells you that a doctor may have been the best person to give you this advice, rather than a computer you’ve never even shaken hands with.

There are the hundreds of fad diets which leave you subsisting on starvation levels of calories, with barely enough energy to put your work out clothes on, let alone do any of the recommended exercises. These diets leave you not only cheating but feeling guilty about it, as the permanent hunger and boredom send your cravings into overdrive and your inevitable calorie counting into an unhealthy obsession.

Falling for one of the many fad diets on the market, which promise you rapid weight loss, will inevitably lead to cheating, guilt and a sense of failure. The whole point of cheating on these diets is that they basically make no sense in the first place, and your body has no intention of enduring them, and fights your determination to attempt to stick with them. It is perfectly fine to come to the conclusion that you cheated because the diet espoused complete nonsense in the first place.

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