The Low Sacrifice‘ Diet’ 64 Identifying your high sacrifice foods is easy – just think about your forbidden or favorite foods. These foods would be a big sacrifice for you to give up forever. The prospect of life without them does not bear thinking about! As we discussed right at the beginning of this book, these are the foods, sweet or savory, that we typically would have grown up eating at parties, celebrations, Christmas or even a Sunday lunch. High sacrifice foods( HSFs) are these foods we have grown to love over the years. Remember, eating is the most fun we can have in public and one of the few pleasures we can experience several times a day without bothering anyone else or behaving illegally. So don’ t feel guilty about these foods you love – embrace them. The time to feel guilty about them is past! What we have to learn to do is eat them in a way that does not cause us a health problem, but which allows the pleasure that they offer. This brings us to the Golden Rule: There are no foods that are forbidden. There are only foods we need to manage better. Unless you are someone who has an attachment to your weight, as discussed earlier, where any food will do, most people can list the foods they love on one hand. The rest stop about the time they have used two hands. The goal with these foods is to keep them in our diet but in smaller amounts, smaller portion sizes. We do this by first‘ allowing’ them and, second, by savoring them. Allowing – The antidote to craving So, the LSF list is now off the menu for you, but the HSF list is definitely‘ in’.‘ Allowing’ might seem like a simple and obvious concept, but after years of guilty struggle with trying to avoid their forbidden foods, some people really struggle with allowing themselves their HSFs in a managed way. It took one of my male clients, a very capable executive, three weeks and two visits just to convince his mind that he could allow himself a chocolate frog for morning tea( the very same that he would happily binge on at other times.)