Wew all collude with ourselves from time to time

Have you ever helped someone else by doing their shopping for them? If you are living with your parents, perhaps you sometimes go out to the shops and buy stuff for them. And strangely somehow, included in that shopping trolley are the things that you like yourself, but know you should not eat. You are buying them for someone else. It might be crisps or chocolates, or biscuits. We often collude with ourselves in this way. Buying the things that we want, but for someone else. So there they are, all those things you are trying to stop eating, sitting in the cupboard calling you to eat them. Do you do this? Most of us do.

Or maybe your partner likes to eat these things you are trying to give up, and brings them into the house. You don't discuss with your partner how difficult this makes it for you to give up - because secretly, this allows you to give in to the urge, and blame your partner (just a bit).

Or in your office, everyone has lots of sweets and biscuits and you all join in eating them. All colluding together.

Does this sound like you? So what action are you going to take?

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