The 'once-in-a-while' lie

You're doing good in your eating habits, have a structured plan and have shown discipline for last couple days, weeks or months. Then you need to do groceries and walk by past the baking sweets, chips and snacks aisle.

Hmm.. if I'm below a certain amounts of sugars or calories I will still be fine you will think. This is where you allow infiltrating thoughts to take over and justify the choice you've just made in your head.

Already imagining how it will taste and bringing you back the memories of how good it tastes. This happens far more than we realistically think. Everyone is guilty of it sooner or later.

Friends and family
Then comes the family and friends visits that you do depending on how frequently you do actually visit them. You will feel awkward or disrespecting when they offer you something that is freshly baked rather than bought outside.

Or when you're at an event like a wedding whereby the stakes of rejecting is looked down upon even more! The healthy diet in combination with staying disciplined is tough for most people or even impossible.

They will come at you using the famous overused words to make you feel less guilty about it. 'It is just once in a time'. Your mind will naturally gravitate towards it and join the others in a form of being socially comfortable.

It is not your fault
Our modern time has defined our ways of habits, eating and drinking for the majority of people. Things you've tasted before remain in your taste buds and is not unfamiliar at all.

Also, most packaging of snacks, sweets and even the presentation of bakeries are so irresistibly designed for us to at least try one of it. It is a form of making your taste buds enjoy something you were going to do anyway. Which is eating.

The more we go into the future, the more these new flavors will be brought before our eyes. It is like getting an upgrade every season for the next new snack which will interest the masses.