The "Pringle Effect". Cheating Your Diet.

This happened to me this weekend, lol.
back on the horse now, but it's seriously a slippery slope!

I gotcha!
good luck!!

OH yes! This has happened to me and especially over the holidays this happens to me!
I get back on here though and start fresh!! I can go for long periods of time eating healthy. Its just those holidays and parties that get me

Fortunately, not this time. I have treats built into my regimen that keeps me focused and have been going strong since October. However, in the past that was always an issue but it would take me weeks, maybe even months to get back on track. Good luck with everything!

I'm blaming it on the weather!! lol For some reason I can't say no to the chips and salsa and larger than normal amounts of carbs lately. I need to get my butt in gear and move away from all the comfort food!

Curse you Pringles!!!!!!!

We went to Red Loster yesterday for our anniversary. Told my husband I was taking the day off and eating what I wanted not what I needed, just to get over a few cravings.

Today is one of the hardest days for me. I keep thinking that since my scale went up, what's one more day. I am working hard on holding this together though cause I know if I give in I will go rolling down that hill so fast I won't ever get back up!!

If you are going to have a cheat day make sure to stay away from ANYTHING with MSG. It is the ingredient that makes it hard to stop eating, it also makes you hungry later. Almost anyplace you eat out is going to be loaded with it, as well as almost all premade meals and soups.

Look up some of the MANY names it goes by. I was surprised to see that some foods had two-three different forms of MSG in it. Once I eliminated it from my diet completely I found that I did not get any of the cravings that I used to, as well as foods that were high in calories were actually satisfying a long time later.

New day today. New day every day.

^ Not according to your body.

If you constantly just 'forgive yourself' for your bad decisions yesterday, it wont make them not count.

If you eat god awful today, and start new tomorrow, your body aint starting new along with your mind, just saying, you better fix it not forgive it.

You ate bad yesterday? Why are you not at the gym today? Why is that bad food still in your house? You going to buy it again at the grocery store too?

I used to have that problem a lot, where I would be on a tough diet then go crazy and binge on my day(s) off. But since I've been a part of Weight-Watchers, I haven't had that problem at all! I have simply learned to eat the foods I love in moderation, not to cut them out from my diet completely because those cravings will build up and lead to a day where I just eat everything and gain back what I lost. To control/ prevent "The Pringle Effect" I would say to eat the foods you love in moderation and small portion sizes so you don't feel like your depriving yourself.

No. In the year that I have been here, I have learned a lot of very valuable things. One of them being this; just because you say "it's just one day", doesn't mean your body interprets it as such. Now, I do have days where I do not eat as healthfully as I would like. I am steadily improving though, and finding alternatives that I slowly work into my lifestyle to take the place of the chips and pop. And, if I have a day that was just pure waste, I hit it harder for the next few days than I typically would, to remind me of why I don't need those things any more. Tonight, my dinner will not be very healthy. I have made it fit, but the quality is not great. So, tonight, I am running extra and sticking with my portions.

If I really feel like I need a cheat day, I just eat to maintenance. I do that probably once every couple of weeks.

Yep. Cheated yesterday, big time. Today, it seems like "just a little chocolate" wouldn't hurt... Dangit, stupid brain!

Me. Today. That is all.