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Impulse spending can ruin the most careful budget; impulse eating means more diets fail than succeed. A self talk technique can help curb these impulses. Impulses are hard to resist because acting on them provides immediate gratification, although it is often short-lived. You can resist an impulse by asking yourself how you will feel an hour from now (or a day) were you to give in and yield to the impulse. In all likelihood, you'll feel no better than you do now. Reinforce this by immediately focusing on what you hope to achieve by controlling your eating or spending and ask yourself how you'll feel when you achieve your goals through not yielding to impulses.