Article: Why being "good" is bad: deciding what to eat shouldn't be an ethical dilemma: eating a piece of cake won't land you in dieter's prison, but dwelling in good/bad mentality will make it harder for you to lose weight. Here's how to stop beating yourself up about your food choices and start thinking healthier.(Real-Life Healthy Life 2007)

No carbs. No desserts. No between-meal snacks ever again. We all set rules like these for ourselves when we're trying to lose weight. But ironically, they're the very things that keep us from being successful. "Setting diet rules establishes an all-or-nothing mentality: You can't have of do something, and if You do, you've failed--which then makes it easy to just give up entirely," explains Real-Life Healthy Life (RLHL) nutrition expert Elisa Zied, R.D., author of Feed Your Family Right! This month, Zied helps RLHL participants Crystal, Lily, and Maria identify their diet rules and offers simple suggestions that can help them--and you--break the rulemaking habit and adopt a ...

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