You want pizza. You order it and say to yourself "I'm only going to eat 3 slices." But you end up eating the full pizza anyway. Suddenly you feel so guilty, you're well over TDEE and think you've ruined your diet. So you eat a bit more, fuck it, you've already cheated, right?
You wake up the next day plagued with guilt. You're bloated and avoid the mirror. You know you shouldn't, but you step on the scale. +2.6lbs. What have I done? You're disappointed and in shock. You turn to food to make you feel better, you'll get back on track tomorrow. Tomorrow comes, and the same again. A week down the line you haven't counted a single calorie and avoided the scale. You feel disappointed, guilty, demotivated. It takes you another week to finally get back on the bandwagon. You haven't just taken a step back in weight loss, but your mental state has suffered too.Or, in an alternate universe:
You want pizza. You order it and say to yourself "I'm only going to eat 3 slices." But you end up eating the full pizza anyway. You enjoy it cause it tastes damn good, you don't remember the last time you had even a slice. You drink your water and go to sleep. You don't weigh yourself that morning, you know not to because of the delicious salty monster you destroyed salt content and food weight. You eat like normal, maybe less if you aren't as hungry. You stick to your usual exercise, maybe a bit more intense if you wanna sweat but hey, you don't have to.After all, exercise isn't punishment for eating.
The absolute worst case is you wait 3 days to reach your goal weight. That's it. You're probably better off mentally too.
I struggle a lot with this, and not everyone does but I also know it isn't just me either. I'm learning to include foods I love in my diet in moderation and not feel guilty. Your diet has to be sustainable for you. When I eat foods I associate with "cheating", I think it's ruined my progress and say "fuck it." In reality it hasn't ruined anything, until I give into that unhealthy "fuck it" mentality.It doesn't matter what you did yesterday, it matters what you do today. If you start today, you can't be any worse off than you were yesterday, remember that. It can only get better if you start now.
Sincerely,the girl that ate every slice of a domino's large pizza, loved every second of it, then went on an enjoyable long ass walk in the sun :)
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