It won’t work.
Do you have someone in your life who you feel tries to undermine the positive things you do? We all have these people in our lives to some degree. For me that person is my mother. I love my mother but she has never wanted to see me succeed with a weight loss diet. Even when I was an overweight teenager she would do or say things to make me want to give up on becoming a thinner person. This I believe stems from her own inability to diet or loose weight. What makes me sad is that this behavior continues into my adulthood. For example she knows that I am not eating any sugar or starch and have lost 25 pounds as a result. In response to this she decides to invite me over for dinner and bake all of my favorite foods including cream puffs, chocolate chips cookies, and scalloped potatoes. Any other time I would love that she actually cooked foods for me but this time I couldn’t see past the underlying meaning. Fortunately, something in me has changed and I explained that I had brought a salad with me to have instead of the starchy side dishes and that I would be having some of the sugar free desert I had also brought along. It was a moment I am actually quite proud of because it showed how far I have come in changing my eating habits.