Incentives?

I've been trying, and failing miserably, for what feels like ages now, to stick to my eating plan. I really want to do it and I know that it's good for me, never mind losing weight, I just feel physically healthier when I'm doing it. It's just that it's so darned restrictive and I feel abnormal, punished and deprived when I'm sticking to it. SO if I *do* manage to stick to it for a little while I just have to give myself a treat for being so good, and it's always the forbidden food that's the treat. Some days I can just about manage to be good for breakfast then it all goes haywire.

Are there any other treats or incentives that you lovely ladies can think of?

On the exercise front all is going pretty well, now that I've factored in a bike ride and a walk each week (more if we can manage it) for me and the kids. The bike ride involves the bigger two riding theirs and me puffing up the hills pushing the little one and being the brakes for her going downhill. The last time had me so itchy to be on a bike myself so I went to Halfords and talked to some very nice assistants about getting a towbar for my bike so I can get littlest on the back as she's too big for a seat, and getting an easier arrangement for carrying the bikes on the van. At the moment we have a bike rack that's too high up for me to get the bikes onto, and also you can't use the boot while it's on. So if I can get a towbar fitted I can fit a lower one on. I'm trying to be philosophical about the cost as the bike towbar is cheaper than a tagalong bike and the bike carrier is much cheaper than a trailer.