All too often, people use weight loss progress as a license to loosen the dietary reins and hinder further progress. How can we guard against the slackening effects of success? According to another study conducted by the same team of scientists at the University of Chicago, we should avoid getting into the habit of patting ourselves on the back for all the work we’ve done.40 Instead, we should view our wins as evidence of how important our goals are to us and how committed we are to seeing them through. That is, we should look for reasons to keep going, not to slow down and take in the
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