You're maybe thinking of cognitive dissonance rather than hypocrisy? The latter is pretending to be better than you are or acting differently to how you say you

You're maybe thinking of cognitive dissonance rather than hypocrisy? The latter is pretending to be better than you are or acting differently to how you say you will. If you acknowledge that you're doing something that goes against your principles you are not pretending to anything or acting differently to how you say you will then the charge of hypocrisy doesn't fit.