Budgeting Hacks

I think we all can agree that sticking to a budget is easier said than done. For many of us, budgeting goes like this: We make a plan, we follow it for a few days or weeks, but then we decide we want to eat out more often than we’ve allowed ourselves too, or there are too many online sales we can’t ignore. And eventually we give up. Why do we all end up in this cycle and is there a way to budget without making huge life alterations?