Dr. Salerno – The Silver Cloud Diet

Staying On Target With Your Diet Goals

By: Linda Eckhardt

I don’t know about you. But many things can cause me to lose focus on my diet goals. A celebration. A bad day at work. A disagreement with the neighbor who is cutting down a healthy 100 year old tree. A friend coming into town for two weeks.

All these things can interfere with staying on your Silver Cloud, or at least they can for me. Why is this? If you think about it, coping with disappointment, anger, or even great and good fortune have been associated with food in our culture, and certainly in my life for a long time.

So what strategies can you develop to help you make better decisions? First of all, if you fell off the wagon and ate a cookie or three, forgive yourself and go on. If you can just get in touch with what you’re really thinking and feeling, you can probably find a more appropriate way to handle the emotion than just pigging out.

Face it. For those of us who have struggled with weight problems, eating has been more than mere sustenance for a lot of years.

But why kill yourself with your fork? When the consequences of years of overeating are considered, when you face the fact that a long period of overweight will lead to diabetes, heart disease, stroke, or even cancer, then you think again before grabbing for that cookie.

If you are off target one day the very next day get back on target with your diet goals.

Look forward. Not back.

I’m back on my Silver Cloud. Join me.

Let’s stay on target together.