The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.
When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what is involved in our choices, the conflict between deprivation and indulgence ceases to exist.
Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)
Going in the wrong direction but making really good time
That which you seek, is causing you to seek.
What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.
That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.