A friend comes to your house wanting to celebrate his recent success with you or share his current problems. A bottle of wine and two glasses are quickly produced. You’re his friend but you’re on the Dukan diet, so what do you do? There is a birthday in the office, someone has bought a cake. It is sliced ​​and everyone gets a slice, including you. But you can’t eat cake on the Dukan diet! You can’t be rude either, so what do you do? Your son has a party, it’s his birthday and all his friends come to celebrate the big day. The party is a success, but now you have to clean up. Cookies and chips tempt you, try just one, then another, then a few more. You are on the Dukan diet, what should you do now?

You can probably think of hundreds more examples where you find yourself slipping from your diet. Should you give up hope? Are all diets ultimately doomed to failure because situations like this will keep happening? Of course not.

Falling from time to time when you’re on a diet is perfectly normal and everyone does it. I’m willing to bet that almost everyone who has successfully lost weight on the Dukan diet has faced situations similar to those described above and slipped too. It happens to all of us. However, with the Dukan diet it happens much less frequently. Due to lack of hunger and food cravings, you will find yourself tempted to slip much less frequently than on other inferior diets. But circumstances beyond your control may mean that the right thing to do is to eat or drink something that is prohibited on the diet. Who can, with a clear conscience, refuse to share a drink with a friend in need simply because he is on a diet?

If you slip up, the first thing you need to do is stop worrying about it. Stressing yourself out because you ate something you shouldn’t have done you no favors. All of this will make it more likely that you will slip again and abandon the diet altogether. The second thing you need to do is go straight back to the horse. Go back to the diet and forget that the slip has occurred. Remember that you are supposed to acquire new eating habits and form a good relationship with food. Freaking out because you had a glass of wine or a piece of birthday cake is not a healthy attitude. Keep in mind that if you slip up, the worst that will happen is that you’ll have to add an extra day or two to your overall diet. Considering the total time spent on the diet, a couple of days is not worth worrying about.