Are you ever at war with your dinner? Do you fight over what and how much of a particular food to eat? Do you deny, weigh, overindulge, or nibble at your food? When you experience this inner battle over food opposites, then savoring food and experiencing it fully is difficult because there is always the idea that something is missing.

This is the reason why most diets do not work: When you deny yourself that pie, ice cream, or chips, then you create an opposite and equal (or greater) desire for what is being denied! This is simple cause and effect.

But what if you slowly practiced healthy moderation in place of denial? This lets you slowly change a habit, by taking one less bite of offending food-and one more bite of desirable food-than you did the meal before.