Hello, my friend. I'm Cookie Rosenblum, your master weight loss coach and author, and I'm

here to help you stop overeating. This is episode 278, how to slip in your eating program

without going back to square one. Be sure to grab my free training, how to stop overeating

in three steps at weightlossmadereal.com slash three steps, the number three. Because you

need to stop overeating if weight loss is one of your goals. Let's dive into our coaching

session today. Today we're going to talk about slips, what they are, and what a slip would

look like. What are your choices of what to think and do and say to yourself after a slip,

and what are the results of each of those choices, and I'm going to ask you to be honest

and tell me which one of those ways you handle your own slips. And then of course, I'm going

to share with you an option of a new way to handle slips so that you can move on without

doing any more damage and have a new plan. So let's get right into our coaching session

today. We're talking about slips, and let's get clear on what that actually means. It means

that you had a plan to do something, to take a certain action, how you were going to eat.

Maybe your plan even included what you were going to eat, or how you were going to care

for yourself, or how you were going to manage your next bad mood without eating. So you

had this plan, but you reverted back to what you usually did. Something came up and your

mind slipped back to the old habit. In order to learn to slip less often and have your

slips be less damaging, first you need to know a few things. And the number one thing, number

one is you have to have a plan. So if you're slipping, you're slipping from your plan. Your

plan is like your roadmap. Where are you going? What do you want? What do you want to be different?

Why do you want it? Why do you want to do that? So usually it's because you want to feel a certain

way when you do a certain thing. You want to be different. You want to think differently. And what

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