Psychobabble on Wednesday - a new column by Rebecca Moore

I was looking at something interesting today, not about dieting, but about taking responsibility for your own life.

We are grown up, rational, intelligent, compassionate women. We have read book after book, diet after diet, yet we don’t appear to be able to manage our weight like we want to.

We know that when we eat less, or less of certain foods, we get thinner. Why are we unable to do this for a long period of time (in my case longer than 5 days)?

We need to think a little more and take control of what we put in our mouths. If we want a chocolate biscuit, have one, fine, but realise what it is going to do to your body. We don’t have to have one biscuit and then get ‘taken over’ by the chocolate biscuit monster and eat the whole packet. We can make choices about what to put in our mouths.

We have to take responsibility for ourselves and our bodies.

We all like ourselves so we need to treat ourselves like we treat our friends – fill ourselves with good quality, healthy food, don’t poison ourselves and make our bodies fit enough to do what they’re supposed to do.