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Originally Posted by ChefSalad  Please no on the pushups. There's no reason to punish yourself. Just forgive yourself and move on. |
I agree. There's no need to punish yourself or feel guilty. Those are the worst things you can do. By doing them you can end up with a closed loop where you do something bad, then feel guilty about it or punish yourself. And this can simply happen over and over again and won't solve anything. What you have to do is attack the cause of the problem, not the symptoms. You have to understand why you ate all those cookies in the first place.
Ultimately to stop eating something like cookies completely or limit yourself to small amounts, you have to create certain associations in your brain (something I learned from Tony Robbins). I personally don't eat almost any junk food because I created a neural association that refined sugar is an awful thing and is terrible for my body. When I see junk food I don't see something tasty, I see poison.
On the other hand most people associate junk food with pleasure, which is why people eat so much of it. It's not difficult to change associations, you just have to do it consciously and it takes some time. It also takes some discipline. But once the system is in place, it's very easy to maintain it.