The Weight-Loss Tip to Fight Feelings of Deprivation

Feeling deprived and dissatisfied when it comes to healthy eating leaves you with a pang of constant hunger, both physically and emotionally. Forget the old notion that you're making a sacrifice every time you reach for a clean meal or snack, and say this to yourself instead: food is your body's fuel.

Choosing clean and nutritionally dense food is just like putting in that top-of-the-line fuel that helps with your body's ability to lose weight, while a diet full of refined carbs and sugars and other processed junk leaves you feeling sluggish and bloated all day long. When you think of those "sacrificed" foods with a new perspective, suddenly that diet of greasy pizza and plates of french fries just doesn't have the same appeal of the past. But this doesn't mean you can never partake in the joys of your "favorite" foods again. Even for supersculpted celebrity trainer Heidi Powell, when someone tells her she can't something, she says, "naturally, I want it more!" She says it's important to leave moments for planned indulgence, so we don't have to deal with nasty feelings of deprivation and "never feel like we fail."