Rewards Should Not Be Food

A lot of people think of food as a reward.  "I worked hard all day, I'm tired and I deserve it",  "I've been good on my diet all week and I deserve it". So you reward yourself with having a cupcake or a few potato chips.  No one ever has only a serving size of potato chips. Next thing you know you have gobbled down 500-1000 calories of non-nutritional crap.  And then you wonder why your diets never work.

Using food as a reward is not justified no matter how many ways you try.  Remember we are looking for healthy living results not justifications for eating your junk. Your justifications or excuses are what is making you fat and sick in the first place.  

Find a different reward.  Buy yourself something like a new skirt or a new tool set.  Go for a hike in nature, write down in a journal how proud you are of yourself for making much needed changes. What is your reward?

If you still want to eat a bag of chips of a piece of cake or a mexican dinner, do it only once a month and don't over do it or it will make you sick like you used to be every day.