If you only do it occasionally, overeating is a normal part of life. It's natural, that when faced with the best thing your mother or spouse makes (my favorite is Manicotti) or a restaurant's specialty item, to eat a little past the point of full simply because you love the taste. But how can you enjoy the pleasure of food, indulge a little here and there, and not have your weight suffer?

The answer is to keep your weight in mind. Keeping your weight in mind is one of the 10 Healthy Habits in the Shrink Yourself Program. It's one of the things that people who maintain their weight naturally know how to do. They plan ahead. If you know that you're going out to dinner or to an event where you'll want a little more freedom with food, you can cut back throughout the day. It's really not that different from balancing a checkbook. If you spend more money one month on clothes than you normally would, you might not be able to go to the movies as much. Keeping your weight in mind also means not using a planned indulgence as an excuse for eating poorly all day. For example, a lot of people will say I'm going to blow it tonight at that cocktail party for work so I might as well throw in the towel altogether. That won't work. To enjoy the occasional overindulgence without having your weight suffer, be proactive, delay gratification for a little while, and then let yourself look forward to a delightful dinner.

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