When you eat a healthy salad, or some other nutritious choice, try not to dwell for the next few hours on how few calories you consumed. For one, it may not have been that few calories, depending on the dressing.
But even if it was low-calorie, there's a danger in being "proud" of yourself for the way you limited yourself. Because it's not necessarily your whole self that feels this way. Part of you will feel deprived, and craving for sweets or other "feel-good" foods.
Better instead to dwell on the way that the salad nourishes you. Think of the vitamins and minerals that dark-leafed lettuce, for example, provides. Imagine how your body is responding to having these good things. Not that you'll know exactly how any given ingredient factors into your overall feeling, but envisioning a positive response will go a long way toward feeling good about the healthy choice you made, and not so conflicted.
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