04/26/2026
How many times have you told yourself “I’m going to be good this week.”
You’re going to track your calories, meal plan, not snack at night.
But you have a stressful day at work or something throws you off your original plan.
So you grab snacks while cooking dinner or order takeout because you’re too tired to even think about dinner.
Guilt and shame kicks in so you tell yourself you’re going to tighten things up even more. Set more rules.
Which makes sense. We assume that more control = better outcome
But after working with 250+ clients it the exact opposite.
I call it the “Control Trap”
The more you try to control, the more it feeds into the all-or-nothing mindset. It also leads to even MORE guilt in the long term. Because you promised yourself you wouldn’t eat those “bad” foods or snack at night.
Which is why diets seem to work for a fixed period of time. Because they give you that sense of control.
I understand letting go of control can feel scary. It doesn’t mean eat whatever you want in any amount.
It means removing the food rules and beliefs you have built up over the years around these things.
Which is exactly what I help my clients do.
If this is the part you keep getting stuck on, DM me “CONTROL”
I’ll ask a couple questions and show you what I’d fix first