How to Deal with Temptation
A client emailed:
"After three years of being plant-based, I don't know what possesed me to eat a hamburger, but I did and I feel so guilty. I know I shouldn't beat myself up for it, but here I am crying about it. I'm trying to tell myself - progress not perfection, however I'm having a hard time getting it to my heart. Any advice?"
I wrote a lot about this in my new book, The Happy Herbivore Guide to Plant-Based Living, because I'd say probably 90% of my clients did something similar (usually it's cheese!). I always tell them to use this as a lesson, an affirmation that what they were doing before was best for them -- to hold this experience, while painful, in their mind so they never do it again.
Before you're tempted, remember the emotions and feelings that came afterward. In some ways, I find my clients who did "mess up" end up the happiest, most fulfilled and really come to love their plant-based lifestyle in a new way.
Have a good cry, then make the next thing you eat a plant :)
You can do it!