Some health enthusiasts keep one day in a week for indulgence, a day for their favorites but forbidden foods which are oftentimes high in calorie and fat content. Others overeat for certain season of the year like Christmas until New Year and then punish their selves with strict diet and rigid exercise.

If you are on the same situation, then think again. The article “Short-Term Overeating Could Make Long-Term Weight Loss Tougher” by Alan Mozes in Business Week tackles about the potential difficulty of losing those accumulated weight.

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We oftentimes blame our lack of will power for failed weights loss. In ‘Why We Eat Too Much, And How to Get Control’, Rachel Grumman features three factors that we can blame for over eating.

How many times we include weight lose in our New Year’s resolution?  We are actually quite effective in the first few weeks of our diet - no chips, midnight snack, ice cream, cheese cakes and fries.

Then one afternoon, we have a big argument with our boss. We go home very pissed off and start ravaging the fridge. And then you find a scrumptious rich chocolate cake.  You convince yourself to cave in for one day only and viola! You savour each spoonful of cake. Unfortunately, that one day is followed by another until eventually you slip from your healthy lifestyle.

Then months later we put on more weight and conclude that we don’t have the will power to lose weight!

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