I think a big step in the self love journey is moving the cause for your failings away from ‘because you’re a bad person‘ toward ‘because you’re a sad person‘.
The inner critic will skin you alive for every indiscipline but at some point you picked up that unhealthy coping mechanism for a reason.
Life is hard, it was hard back then too.
Maybe you have this bad habit because teenage you couldn’t handle the struggles of life and reached for the nearest thing they could find.
Instead of berating oneself for being a miserable cretin who could never achieve sustained change, investigate the moments leading up to the relapse.
Did life get really sad again?
Many diets list the right kinds of mushrooms and argue the benefits of carbohydrates vs proteins but what about the psychological stressors that drive people to overeat junk food in the first place?
Thomas Duggan 