Why can't it just be "because I love myself"

I was driving home from The Loop today after finishing up my Christmas shopping and realized I had bought a box of Whoopers. I was eating them and when I realized I was doing this thought to myself "I really don't want these". I knew if they were anywhere in arms reach I would continue to eat them so I decided to throw them out the window. Part of me then felt bad for littering but I have to pick my battles! So on the way home I thought to myself that it would be highly beneficial for me if I stopped eating sweets, including but not limited too chocolate, cookies, cakes, ice creams, 100 calorie sweet snacks etc. Last time I went without sweets for a week was 2 Artist's Way workshops ago for deprivation week. I had a reason and I was accountable so I did it. It was hard and I hated some moments of it, but I was successful. So initially my thought went to whats a good reason to stop eating sweets. New Years resolutions came to mind but I didn't want to attach it to that because I have a bad track record of breaking those. So then I thought about the upcoming Artist's Way workshop. Then out of the blue, smacking me in the face, which it NEEDED to do because apparently I wasn't paying attention, I had a thought. . . "why can't it be because I love myself??" It NEEDS to be because I love myself. That is the BEST reason to do things, to make decisions and changes that are healthy, supportive, and beneficial to yourself . . . BECAUSE I LOVE MYSELF!! So because I love myself, I will be refraining from eating sweets. I am not placing a time limit or any limits or boundaries on it for that matter because , well lets face it, limits and boundaries are meant to be crossed and I don't want to set myself up for failure. I am going to be gentle with myself and not come down too hard if I "slip" because I am committed to the process. . . Because, for no other reason, I LOVE MYSELF!!