It's another week of the savvy psychologist podcast. I'm Dr. Ellen Hendrickson and every

Friday I'll help you meet life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero

judgment.

We'll use the best of psychology to help you be happy, healthy, and most importantly,

yourself.

If there's just no chemistry between you and diets, maybe it's time to break up.

Diets make lousy partners.

They make you feel hopeful at the beginning,

like this one will be different,

but ultimately leave you feeling bad about yourself.

Plus, you keep cheating anyway.

To leave it all behind, here are six tips to finally stop dieting.

Tip number one, give yourself permission to eat all foods.

Deprivation is not a force to be taken lightly.

And self-imposed deprivation has both physical and psychological consequences.

For instance, I'll bet the day before a new diet you eat an entire

pizza as a last hurrah or you might even be triggered by your deprivation rules

themselves. Promising yourself I will not eat chocolate might set off a chocolate soaked binge.

Therefore, break foods out of their good or bad categories, which often get thinly disguised as healthy or unhealthy.

When we disallow entire categories of food, like sugar, carbs, rule out, quote,

unhealthy foods, or even by light versions of real food, the foods we deny ourselves take on a sparkling allure

and leave us feeling deprived and punished.

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