You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 31.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach and author Cookie Rosenblum. your

master weight loss coach and author Cookie Rosenblum.

And today and every Tuesday I'm going to coach you

and teach you how to end your emotional eating,

how to bust through your binges, and how to leave all your overeating

habits in the past.

If you just found me, welcome, and if you're a regular listener listener welcome back to your coaching session.

Today we're going to talk about this.

How do you know when to absolutely keep your promise to yourself and when to negotiate a new one, especially when it comes to your eating.

So first let's discuss what the true issue is and how it might show up in your life.

Well, you start off with a promise to yourself.

And that promise, it has to be the most important thing. It needs to

start with a true commitment. That commitment may be to eat a certain way, to take good care of yourself,

maybe it's to get enough sleep every night,

maybe it's to take a 10 minute walk at lunchtime

or in the evening, all things that sound totally reasonable, right? They're reasonable in the

light of day when you're not under the gun of making a big decision. And you probably won't

be surprised to learn that the more you keep your

commitments to yourself the higher your self-esteem. You say you'll do something

and when you follow through you feel good. You feel proud and you're

reinforcing your relationship with yourself. But things do not always go as planned as you know. You may not feel like doing what you said you were going to do when you made that promise to yourself.

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