The holidays are used as a major excuse for people to eat more than they normally would and cheat on their weight loss plans. But now that the holidays are over, the cheating is over, right? Not quite, because when it comes to indulging an appetite, some of us will use any excuse possible to over eat and cheat on our DNA diet. Whether it is positive things like birthdays, promotions, graduations, parties or negative events we will sometimes use any excuse we can muster to eat high calorie food and not pay attention to how many calories we are putting into our bodies.

Chastising ourselves for basic human desire, however, is not a good way to go about improving our diet success. The key to battling the cravings we get for “special occasions” is to recognize why we get these cravings and the best way to satisfy them without making things worse.  The first step is to recognize that using special occasion excuses to over eat is an emotional issue. Many of us who are overweight have learned to use food to subdue our erratic emotional states. Recognizing the times when we are doing this is essential to being able to stop it.

A DNA diet provides the structure and information to be able to make an informed decision while dieting rather than an emotional one. This is part of the reasoning behind a home delivered meal program. If we have ready to go healthy food already planned out for a meal, we are way less likely to go outside of the plan and overeat than if we just a generic goal of eating healthy. The GenoVive home delivered meal program makes it easier for us to substitute in things like socializing, hobbies and interests to satisfy our emotional states rather than over eating.

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