My niece plays basketball, and yesterday, my sister asked if I wanted to go to her end of the season banquet. Of course, I support the kids when I can. She tells me that it's going to be at Pizza Hut, and I immediately start looking forward to it. That's when I realized a big flaw (for me) in my effort to get healthier. I would always give myself one day to cheat. I would focus on that day, ALL WEEK long. Junk food was CONSTANTLY on my mind because I was always thinking about what I was going to eat on my cheat day. It's not that hard to eat healthy, when I cook, the food is there, when I prepare, I try to think of healthier meals to cook. It only becomes hard, if I'm thinking about how good pizza, fried chicken, with a side of nacho dip would be in its place.
So, instead of focusing on what I'm going to eat when I can eat healthy, I'm going to focus on what I can buy when I'm a smaller size!! I'm going to focus on being able to buy pants in Express and Banana Republic.
I will still have times where I give in to the things that I crave. Somehow, I think I will be more consistent when I'm not constantly thinking about what I can't have. Instead, I will be thinking about what I can have, when my consistency pays off :-).
2 comments:
I've totally run into the same issue with "cheat days". Spending all week fantasizing on the food you're depriving yourself of is harsh and tends to promote bingeing on those days.
I like the clothes idea! I've started a vision board--I may add some cool clothes pictures to it. :-D
When I find myself thinking about what I'm going to eat on cheat days, I say NO, out loud, and say I can't wait until I'm in a certain size!! It has helped me to stop spending so much time thinking about junk food!
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