Listen All Y'All This Is Sabotage

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  • missability
    missability Posts: 223
    Keep Calm, And Get Back On (IT)............:)
  • yoovie
    yoovie Posts: 17,121 Member
    cause you dont think you deserve to succeed yet. you have to fix the source not the symptoms.
  • CaraLuMay
    CaraLuMay Posts: 4
    WOW! Thank you everyone for the encouragement and words of wisdom! I am smiling from ear to ear right now for two reasons - I'm committed to doing this and it feels really good and I AM NOT ALONE! And I am going to record that I have not lost anything this week - one of you said I wasn't being honest and part of the reason I'm on this site is to be held accountable and I can't do that unless I'm honest! On to week 3! :happy:
  • lesita75
    lesita75 Posts: 379 Member
    So, today should have been my weigh in for the week - and I weighed, but I didn't record it.
    Then you're not being honest. You should have recorded it. Why? Because if you can't visually see (on paper or graph) that you did sabotage yourself, it doesn't register. I know it sounds dumb, but it's like when someone makes a goal. Stats show that people who write down specific goals reach them more than people who just think about the goal they want to reach.
    Another example would be someone spelling out the word "recuperation" to you letter by letter, or you reading it. You have to think about each letter then put them together to figure out what was spelled, whereas reading the word directly on paper, you define it immediately. Make sense?
    Log the weigh in. It will make more sense in your brain and if you really want to reach a goal, be specific (write down a realistic goal weight, a date when you'll reach it, what you need to do each week to reach it, what you need to do each day to reach it) and then post is up on your bathroom mirror and read it every day. I have ALL my clients do this. The ones that do meet their goal. The ones that don't pay me more money because they have to stay with me longer.:laugh:

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

    ^ That's good stuff right there!!!
  • Tandi_S
    Tandi_S Posts: 439 Member
    WOW! Thank you everyone for the encouragement and words of wisdom! I am smiling from ear to ear right now for two reasons - I'm committed to doing this and it feels really good and I AM NOT ALONE! And I am going to record that I have not lost anything this week - one of you said I wasn't being honest and part of the reason I'm on this site is to be held accountable and I can't do that unless I'm honest! On to week 3! :happy:

    This is a great attitude! Keep it up!

    Be in this for the long haul because you're worth it! We are all human, don't let a couple of bad days upset the whole deal. We all have them. The key (for me) is moderation because then nothing is off limits.
  • LMT2012
    LMT2012 Posts: 697 Member
    Remember also that the bodies caloric needs cycle too. Just because you broke even on this weigh in does not mean you will not see a more dramatic drop over the next few weeks. It's cummulative so get back at it. It will happen!
  • foxymama73
    foxymama73 Posts: 60 Member
    Don't set yourself up for failure. I think we all do that, we have an off day or two, and we throw our hands up. I have done it plenty of times, this is not my first rodeo. Don't deny what you like, but do it in moderation. Monkey bread? Probably not a good idea, but like someone else said, don't let a couple of days throw you off your game. Keep pushing towards your goal, and you'll do just fine!!:smile:
  • lavender22
    lavender22 Posts: 13 Member
    Don't sweat the small stuff. Just get back on track and move ahead :)
  • naculp
    naculp Posts: 225 Member
    Well, keep your body movin and record everything. Get it together.
    Finally someone threw out a Beastie Boys reference in here
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    Well, keep your body movin and record everything. Get it together.
    Finally someone threw out a Beastie Boys reference in here
    two of 'em, actually.
  • CaraLuMay
    CaraLuMay Posts: 4
    Well done!
  • Rodderick89
    Rodderick89 Posts: 205 Member
    Here's how I've been trying to think of it after a bad day or two.. this healthy eating/exercise malarky is going to be a LIFESTYLE change for you, NOT another fad diet.

    So you had 2 bad days.. that might feel rubbish.. but 2 out of 365 of this year? Even if you had 4 "bad" days a month, or one bad day a week, that still means you are sticking to eating well for 87% of the year. Ok, so it's not 100% of the year but 1. you are human. 2. compare that to what you were probably eating previously! Personally, I know that previously I was eating healthily for about 10% of the time..

    Keep your chin up and remember you are only a couple of weeks in- don't beat yourself up :) xx
  • lambchoplewis
    lambchoplewis Posts: 797
    13 out of 15 is GREAT!!! I have been waiting two weeks to go out to dinner this Sat. I know I will have some things (like wine) that is not normal for a day-to-day basis. but... I will not go crazy with guilt as I have done that and it does not good. I have been on MFP for 10 months and have probably "binged" 10 times!!! I get back on the program, and voila - it works.

    It is a lifelong thins... not a one day eat and quit.
  • rougecrayon
    rougecrayon Posts: 100
    What you have done is not what defines you. It's what you'll do next! You can do it! No matter how many bad days you have, commit to keep trying!
  • JustLindaLou
    JustLindaLou Posts: 376 Member
    I agree with the overall sentiment on this thread, that 1 or 2 days is not going to completely derail several days of staying on track. We have got to do ourselves a favor and STOP the diet mentality. It is a LIFEstyle change, and frankly I think portion control is the bigger key to learn here than setting ourselves up for failure thinking we can never have certain foods again. There are things I know I need to avoid until I have made more progress as they will set me up for overeating - can anyone say Pasta?? But if we can learn to have a smaller portion of the things that used to derail us - monkey bread sounds pretty good right now!!! - then we have truly embraced a lifestyle that we can live with. I have also noticed that I might do really well for several days, staying under, not have a loss, then eat more for a day or two and the loss happens...
    I just have to throw in there, as women we have that monthly enemy that comes around with water weight, feeling like crap and CRAVINGS. I have been doing great this month, down 10 lbs, and yesterday I found myself up the eyebrows in a bag of chips - and I am not a chip eater normally!!!! Looked at the calendar and bingo, time for the craving cycle to begin...
    The only thing that makes those one or two meals or snack attacks "sabotage" is if we let them take us off track for another trip down weight gain lane... Just get back to it next meal or next day.
  • furniem
    furniem Posts: 145 Member
    You have made progress! Out of 15 days you were only bad for 2 of them and then AWESOME for 13! I would say that is progress. It is a lifestyle change and you are doing it a little bit every day. Keep fighting the good fight!

    One movitational poster I like is:

    I may not be there yet, but I'm closer that I was yesterday

    Nobody is perfect and if we all were what a boring world this would be!!

    You can do this!

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