Starting over...REALLY!

Erykah3584

Since you like to experiment with food, try finding healthy substitutions to use in your recipes. Try to find different ways to make unhealthy recipes "healthy". Thats what I like to do. I looove cooking! And I dont like giving up good taste for good nutrition. There are so many healthy substitutions out there that allow you to still eat the foods you love.

yoovie

I like to look at it as every day is a start over. The calorie ticker starts over, and every morning I get a fresh start.

unfortunately your body doesnt see eye to eye with you on this. It ALWAYS feels and shows the consequences of the yesterday you pretended to erase.

love that quote ! well said

Every day IS a fresh start, in every aspect of the word. Every day I have a new opportunity to do better, to try harder, to step it up over yesterday's missteps. Not to ignore them or erase them, but to learn from them and strive to do better. I refuse to feel guilty about yersterday, because we cannot change the past, and guilt only feeds the beast.

The only way you can successfully negate guilt or regret about the day before is by making healthy decisions on that day. if you eat lousy and skip workouts, you can forgive yourself all you want - but your body isnt all about fresh starts everyday - its all about bio-machinery and what you did to it yesterday is the only thing that affects its performance today.

If you eat crap and skip your workouts for a week and say its ok i will start fresh tomorrow - it wont stop the scale from reflecting that shotty justification.

So mentally - fresh start? sure - but your body isn't running on the same system as you.

You can say its fine to leave yesterday behind- but its only working on your brain and the scale and the caliper dont reflect whats happening in your brain.

yo_andi

I like to look at it as every day is a start over. The calorie ticker starts over, and every morning I get a fresh start.

unfortunately your body doesnt see eye to eye with you on this. It ALWAYS feels and shows the consequences of the yesterday you pretended to erase.

love that quote ! well said

Every day IS a fresh start, in every aspect of the word. Every day I have a new opportunity to do better, to try harder, to step it up over yesterday's missteps. Not to ignore them or erase them, but to learn from them and strive to do better. I refuse to feel guilty about yersterday, because we cannot change the past, and guilt only feeds the beast.

The only way you can successfully negate guilt or regret about the day before is by making healthy decisions on that day. if you eat lousy and skip workouts, you can forgive yourself all you want - but your body isnt all about fresh starts everyday - its all about bio-machinery and what you did to it yesterday is the only thing that affects its performance today.

If you eat crap and skip your workouts for a week and say its ok i will start fresh tomorrow - it wont stop the scale from reflecting that shotty justification.

So mentally - fresh start? sure - but your body isn't running on the same system as you.

You can say its fine to leave yesterday behind- but its only working on your brain and the scale and the caliper dont reflect whats happening in your brain.

I took a "sanity break" last week and on my first workout "back" I paid for it dearly. My sprints were more like slow crawls, I was huffing and puffing at the half mile point, my legs felt like lead the entire time. I could barely clear a little soccer cone, let alone the big ol' traffic cones we usually use on my plyo jumps. I thought to myself, it can't possibly be from just 4 missed workouts and a week of eating crap. You know what, my body laughed at me and threw in a couple of leg cramps for good measure.

You're totally right. Forgiving yourself and mentally starting over every five minutes works in theory but the reality is your body doesn't see it that way.