Three ways how to change how you treat yourself.

I've copied this wholesale from here (scroll down) and posted it because I think it's rather helpful.

Three ways to change how you treat yourself

In her book, The Last Diet, (as in the last diet you'll ever do) she acknowledges that changing habits is difficult, but suggests a few things you can do to make the process a little bit easier…

• When you have a blip or deviate from your plan of change, try speaking to yourself the way you would speak to someone you care for. Many of us find it easier to motivate others than ourselves. Try giving yourself the same pep talk you’d give someone who you wanted to encourage to get back on track as quickly as possible. Forgive yourself quickly, and take the same positive, common-sense advice you’d give a loved one if they really wanted to achieve a goal.

• Spend five minutes at the beginning of each day trying to guess what is likely to test you during the day ahead, and deciding how you’d like to respond if and when you’re met with that challenge. Each person will have their own unique combination of daily triggers that makes them want to go off-track with a difficult plan of change. Whether it’s a stressful meeting with someone you don’t like at the end of the day, or the fact you didn’t manage to get enough sleep and are starting the day on a back-foot physically, simply expecting it to test your resolve can make all the difference. That way, you can think “this was predictable. I’ve already decided how I want to respond.”

• Make a list of all the difficult things you’ve managed to achieve or get through in the past, in every area of your life. Reflect on the times when you’ve been met with a challenge or put yourself in front of a challenge, and demonstrated how capable you are. Once you’ve written it all down, take a photo of this list and keep it on your phone. Then, when you’re met with a challenging stage of your habit-change plan, when you’re tempted to throw in the towel because it’s understandably difficult to push through, look at that list and remind yourself that if you can do everything on that list, you can push through in that difficult moment and stay on track too.