I have spent the last 10 years of my life dieting. I'm 23 now so yes, I've been overweight since I was a child and had parents that constantly pointed it out.
I started with the mindset that if I messed up then screw it, that's the end of the diet. For about 8 years I'd diet, exercise, then mess up and give up...then rinse, repeat!
For the last 2 years, I started being nicer to myself and got used to telling myself that it was okay if I slipped up on a stressful Monday and ate a bowl of ice cream. But then it led to:
"oh it's okay floofs, you had a stressful week a dinner date with your friend at Olive Garden is just a small cheat meal! You'll be right back on the diet train to skinny-salad-marathon-girl by the morning!"
"Ah floofs you silly floofs, you ate a bit more of those girl scout cookies than you should've, that's ok, you'll be back to eating 2 cookies a serving tomorrow."
"Didn't log a meal? That's ok! Just log the next one!"
"Didn't log a day? That's ok! Log the next...month, yeah that's ok too!"
"Floofs, I'm not gonna lie, last night was bad...3 fast food drive-thrus in one meal? And you deleted MFP to hide the guilt? Yeesh. But that's ok! I FORGIVE MYSELF :3"
And on went the self-forgiveness train until I realized, looking at MFP, that I had lost weight and gained weight in cycles for 2 years and ended up right back where I started.
So now I'm back on my 1200-1400 calorie a day MFP tracking. And this time I have to moderate myself not only with food, but also with my mindset.
No more forgiving every bad food choice I make...I have to figure out how to strike a balance between being downright cruel to myself and being an enabler to my own bad habits.
So, IN CONCLUSION (hehe), don't beat yourself up about a misstep in your weight loss mission, but also hold yourself accountable for those missteps!
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