Self-saboteurs are pursuing goals in a misguided, ill-advised, or dangerous way or they are pursuing goals that interfere with positive ends.Steven Berglas and Roy F. Baumeister, Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the paradox of self-defeating behavior
- Handling a Dieting Failure
- Nixing the “Crap, I Screwed Up My Diet Again” Syndrome
- Overeating Is Not a Reason to Hate Yourself or Stop Dieting
- Not Embracing Gradual Dieting Changes
- Controlling Time Delusions, Energy Crises and Caloric Catastrophes Before They Control You
Women self-sabotage diets because they cannot resolve personal problems sensibly. We let our emotions blow everyday situations way out of proportion. When dieting, any upset or failure can become a justified reason to throw away the whole dieting process.
Personal trainer Mike Davies knows exactly how women sabotage their dieting goals. Davies explains that women make excuses like “it is that time of the month,” “I have had a really tough week” or resort to emotional eating. Then again, personal trainer Janet Bannowsky gets flabbergasted glares from her female clients when she insists that they need to give up the weekend indulgences in alcohol to lose weight.