Hi Yuppet
I cheat all the time (with chicken & mushrooms and in small amounts) and I am still losing. Have you lost any weight? If you have, the diet is succeeding. The weight loss may be slower than it would be if you stuck to it rigidly, but if you are losing, its better than not doing the diet at all.
I have tried hypnotherapy on a number of times. My first go was hugely successful but nothing but failure after that. I guess it depends on the practitioner. But anyway, I think there is a right time and a wrong time for each of us to diet. If there are other issues crowding in, it isn't likely to be a good time to diet. Someone once told me that if losing weight was really important to me, I would lose it. At the time, I thought it was the most important thing but, looking back, there were other issues and once I had sorted those out, it became my right time to diet. This is top of my priorities now, so I can stick to it - well pretty much stick to it.
Hope you are feeling better now, anyway,
k9
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