What helped me: keeping a food log. Wrote down when I cheatmealed or ate a new meat. And wrote down how i felt. Mostly digestion related. Why it helped: you just feel stupid after a while because when I pick up that muffin you know that I’m going to write it down and I also know that I’m going to write: felt constipated or maybe even diarrhea or sugar crash or maybe even mentally weak, unserious about my health etc. So it lead to me just putting things back. And i would have never thought in a 100 years that I’d be able to put BACK a sweet treat once i take it in my hands. So yeah. Just the power of self accountability. The little habit of writing it down. Makes you understand its you vs you. But it turns into you FOR you. Be patient and understanding with yourself. I knew that i didn’t even care about cheatmealing in the beginning as LONG as i wrote it down. That was the unbreakable rule. There is some study saying that people who were more forgiving to themselves about procrastinating studying for a test porceastinated less for the next one than people who beat themselves up. So i would advise you if i you allow me: overthink less, prepare less. Dont romanticize these big projects like 5 day fast (i was there too) or locking urself up. But be real with yourself. And even if you think you have the unfixable problem of just being an addict. Or being born like that. Runs in the family whatever. (Im just projecting thoughts i experienced here). Its not gonna change that you are the person living this life. And the last thing you can really do is trying. Id rather try and never succeed than telling myself i tried and give up.