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The 'last supper' before a diet — the binge that sabotages Monday

The 'last supper' before a diet — the binge that sabotages Monday

The 'last supper' binge the night before a diet loads extra calories, water weight and guilt into day one before you even start. Skip the farewell feast — your fresh start is the next meal on your plate, not Monday.

18 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
last-supper binge monday-diet restraint

It is 10 pm on Sunday. Tomorrow is Monday. Tomorrow, you tell yourself, the diet begins. So tonight feels like goodbye. You open the pizza box. You heat two gulab jamuns. You crack open the chips. You eat as if food will vanish from the earth by morning. Scientists have a name for this. They call it the 'last supper'. It feels like a strong start. It is really a hole you dig on day one, before the day even begins.

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