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So why should cookie eaters be more persistent?

Of course, eating a cookie doesn’t really help you concentrate. But denying yourself that cookie may, it appears, make you less resilient and self-disciplined. This is a repeatable observation: using willpower in one area of life seems to leave less at your disposal for another.

“[All] acts of choice”, Baumeister concluded, “draw on the same limited resource of self-control”  In other words we each have a limited resource of will and discipline, which is depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation. Doesn’t this ring true?  Who hasn’t felt less inclined to stick to an exercise regime after a frustrating day of tongue-biting at work?  Or less in the mood to cook fresh food from scratch after a gruelling day entertaining young children?  And don’t even mention resisting the bottle of wine on a Friday night after a hectic week!

So how can we succeed with weight loss, in spite of our frustrating but natural tendency to undermine our own best intentions, to sabotage our own precious goals?

By conserving our willpower.  By choosing a weight loss method that isn’t influenced by mood, stress or motivation. By using a system that is (gloriously!) indifferent to how upset, frustrated or angry you may feel. A way of eating that limits portion size and calorie intake without the exercise of willpower, without requiring iron self-discipline, without even requiring thinking .   NEXT......