Degrees of slippage

We have a saying in our gym as regards dieting that we call "degrees of slippage".

People tend to move away from their diet plan in small degrees.

They start to slip in little degrees and never notice it.

For example the original lunch calls for salmon and brown rice.
Client thinks turkey and rice is ok. (which it is). So this becomes the new norm - the new reference point.

Now if that's ok - then chicken and a sweet potato is also ok (true, especially when compared to the new reference point).

Then a lean piece of red meat and a small baked potato is ok (still only another small degree of difference right?)

Then lean ground beef, and a couple of small red potatoes or a wholewheat pita would be fine (guess so).

And if a pita is fine, a roll must be ok, and the ground beef put into a patty will be fine.

So a hamburger is now the diet lunch of choice. And if a hamburger is fine, a Philly cheesesteak on a hoagie roll is fine etc etc.

Now, none of those changes were all that significant, particularly when the change becomes the new "reference point". But added up we can see that our recommended lunch of salmon and brown rice has become a Philly cheesesteak !! And the client thinks that they are still ON, as none of these changes (at each stage, from each new point of "the diet") were all that big!

Remember - little degrees of change ended up being complete 90 degree turns. Make sure you aren't making these mistakes.

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