We know that CICO is the de facto method of weight loss and gain, whichever way we wrap our heads around that and the actions we take to achieve it. I realized something that made me think about this differently and I think it will help me stay grounded when I start slipping and I hope this can help some of you as well.
I had some downtime at work yesterday and I hadn’t logged my calories for the previous 5 or so days - partly laziness, partly because I had a few days of big slip ups and I felt guilty and scared to actually see the numbers.
So I started working backwards trying to recall what I ate last week and after 2 or 3 days I couldn’t remember very well. That had me thinking, why do I keep giving into my urges for sweets and junk if I can’t even remember it days later? There is no lasting positive effect to be had from eating like that. You will feel gross afterwards and put yourself in a calorie surplus and gain weight (although I know a day or two over the limit is marginal - but habits add up).
Eating clean and within your parameters does have a lasting effect - weight comes off, you feel strong, energetic, confident, and you are building lifelong healthy habits.
So I’m trying to move forward with this in my mind: my brain is not going to remember what I ate 3 days ago but my body sure will, so I might as well only feed it in ways that will keep me moving towards my goals. Focus on winning the day and no need to look further than that.
I know this has been said over and over in many different ways: take it one day at a time; healthy eating makes you feel so much better; sugar addiction persists every time you eat it; and so on. But something about having to rack my brain to remember the junk I put in my body made all these things really start to click like: huh, what did I even do that for?
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