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This is why all dieters feel guilty about eating—whatever they eat. Even though they enjoy the taste of food, they usually gulp it down quickly. This is because, subconsciously, they feel they are doing something wrong by eating anything at all – although logically they know they have to eat to stay alive.

Guilt is also the reason they put themselves on horrendous detox regimes, living on just fruit juice for a week with all the discomfort, headaches, weakness and coated tongue that are the inevitable results. And when they feel that bad they think they deserve it because this is the price for eating too much and becoming fat.

People go on strict diets to punish themselves for being fat – for overeating.

Once you understand that diets are punishments for bad behaviour, you can understand why they fail. Eating is not a crime but you behave as though it were. Diets are like being in prison where you do ‘time’ for not looking right: ‘I’ve done three days now’. Prisoners, however, become rebellious. Regardless of how willingly you entered your diet-cell, after a while you begin to think about breaking out. Convicts fantasize about a cake with a file in it. Dieters just fantasize about the cake.