From Eileen: The hardest part of any diet and/or exercise program is … staying on the diet and/or exercise program.
We get tired. We get tempted. We give in. We give up. It happens to us all.
And then we berate ourselves for our lack of willpower. A new book called, appropriately enough, “Willpower” by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney, examines the mysteries and vagaries of self control. The authors compare willpower to a muscle that needs to be built up.
In a review in the New York Times, noted author Steven Pinker writes: