Ate like crap over the weekend :-)

bonitacash08
bonitacash08 Posts: 378 Member
in Motivation and Support
This weekend I went to Phoenix to visit my family, and boy, did I eat. My family is not eating healthier and exercising like I am, so they still eat fast food and don't watch their portion sizes. This weekend, I had fast food for the first time in 3 months. I was bloated, and my stomach stuck out. But guess what? I still feel great! I know that one weekend of bad eating didn't undo all the great work I've done over the past 3 months. I also know I didn't really gain any weight (fat). I still look the same (after a good night's sleep and plenty of water to get rid of that sodium).

I'm not writing this to ask for motivation and support. I'm writing this to give it! I know that sometimes we give ourselves a hard time for not making the best food choices but it's important to keep it in perspective. For me, it was more important to have a great time with my family than to try and find the healthiest menu item at Weinerschnitzel or sweat about the calories I was consuming. I think because I've made this revelation it was possible for me to go right back to eating healthy and exercising today instead of becoming the gluttonous pig I used to be.

Just keep on keepin' on guys. If you make a bad choice, accept it, own up to it, and move on. There are so few things in this life that we can truly control. Food is one of them but YOU have to control it, not the other way around.

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  • sheilashields
    sheilashields Posts: 2 Member
    This is exactly where I am today. I spent the weekend with my daughter and 2 grandsons. It was a great weekend and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The food I had was not my normal healthy choices and the exercise was lacking too. But the memories created with my grandsons were priceless. Today the scale is up a little but I'm right back on track. And that's how I know this time is different. It's about lifestyle change, not diet. I am enjoying life and not beating myself up for a couple slip-ups. Things will occur that may take me out of my routine occasionally but I will just go on. In the past, I would have had a pity party when the scale was up and decided I had failed and give up. NOT THIS TIME! My realizations from this experience are a real turning point for me.

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