Don't keep your diet a secret

If you are keeping your diet a secret, ask yourself why?

Don't keep your diet a secret. Tell your friends and you'll be more likely to succeed

Are you keeping it a secret because you think that your friends will try to make you fail, or make fun of you?

If you are then you need to seriously think about your friend choices. Friends should be supportive of your efforts to better yourself. And you'll probably find that most of them are. When you tell your friends that you are on a diet most (if not all) of them will support you.

Think of how you'd react if one of your friends said they were on a diet. Would you support them? Would you join them? Would you think of healthy activities that you could both do together to support and motivate each other?

I'm hoping that you would.  :)

Well they are just the same. When you tell your friends that you are planning a healthier lifestyle they are much more likely to help than hinder you.

But this is only half of the picture.

I want you to be really honest with yourself here....

Are you avoiding telling your friends because you secretly think that you'll give up after a few days and you don't want them to think you're a failure?

If this sounds like you then you need to reevaluate your goal. You need to think of a much better reason to lose weight than the one you're currently using.

'Because I should' is not enough. It won't motivate you to stick to your healthy eating plan when the going gets tough. You need to find a really powerful reason that gets you excited just thinking about it.

Also, the very act of telling another person will increase the probability of sticking to your diet. It's not so easy to give up on something when other people know about your goals. Letting yourself down is one thing, but doing it with the full knowledge of a person you admire and respect is something else entirely.

Decide on your diet goals and commit to them. Be specific and tell your friends.

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