I have made the choice to eat healthy and exercise learning from past mistakes, not making a permanent change. In Dr. Dean Ornish’s audiotapes “Simple Changes” he speaks on the subject of making changes and the feeling of deprivation. He is the author of “Reversing Heart Disease” in which the diet is vegetarian in helping to reverse heart disease. Dr. Ornish believes that conventional wisdom may be need rethinking and changes in lifestyle and diet needs to be a rapid rather than slow changes as not to leave you feeling deprived. He continues to explain your palate will change if you remove meat altogether, but if you just cut back and eat less meat, you will continue to have the taste for it. Another good example is skim milk, cutting back and drinking some whole milk and some skim milk. The skim milk never taste good until you stop drinking the whole milk. After getting use to the skim and then drinking the whole milk it taste greasy and heavy, the palate changed.