Are you sabotaging your success?

you can have your cake and be fit too.

I love this phrase. XD

Yes I'll have both please. Not really interested in a world without cake

Also going with "cake". My sister's birthday party is tomorrow, and I'm probably going to be making her birthday cake. I'll be d***ed if I don't eat some of the cake I bake! I'll have a small piece and plan for it within my calories and macros. No big deal.

The cake is a LIE. She doesn't have enough cake for all of us.

The cake is a LIE LOL

I am doing my first 5K this weekend so definitely sticking with it! Most weeks I try to build up a little buffer in case I want to splurge a little on the weekend but the high fat/ sugar/ calorie food makes me feel like I have a hangover so I pretty much avoid it anyway. If I'm going to have a hangover, I'd rather get it the old fasioned way!

I want to fit that cake into my calories.

And I will. :happy:

What do you want more? To feel fit, healthy and full of energy or that big piece of cake?

Yes! It's Friday but don't let what you want at this moment sabotage what you REALLY want further down the line. Keep this in mind today and through the weekend.
Who is going to stick with it this weekend?

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Great advice - love it!

I think other people try to sabotage me. I came home from work today to fund that my husband had bought me a big bag of joysticks (chewy sweets)

I said to him, are you trying to make me fat.............his reply.............well if I am it's not working.

That's the nicest thing he said to me

I feel like my mum is attempting to sabotage me this weekend.

It seems like all I've heard from her today is -
"Have some more sausage rolls."
"Why don't you help me finish off these mini pasties for lunch?"
"Would you like a cheese straw?"
"You could have some of those sausages for supper."
"If they don't get eaten soon, they're going to go stale."

She only baked it all yesterday! It'll keep.

Here's a script you might try... while you love her and appreciate the thought, you don't want cardiac problems. All that stuff clogs up your arteries. You want to be healthy so you can stick around to visit her for years to come.

Spot on, I told her it's lovely, tastes great, I really appreciate it, and I'll happily have a couple of sausage rolls but I can't be scoffing that much or I'll wreck all my good progress. To be fair, it's not a common occurence. She doesn't bake often. Besides, today she implied that I resemble Billy Bunter and we had a good laugh over all the **** she tried to feed me yesterday. XD

I'm like, make up your mind, Mother! Am I horribly underfed and in dire need of high density fattening food, or do I resemble Billy Bunter and require a serious fitness overhaul? It can't be both!

1. You do not in the least resemble Billy Bunter (I had to google it).

2. We have this other thread going about how parents are ultimately responsible for raising kids who are overweight. The consensus is that it's true. Parents do teach the kids how to eat. Remember this when you are setting an example for others. Don't do what your mom is doing.

3. Hang tough. Tell her that if you eat what she is making, you are going to die young. That should do it.

Good luck and keep at it every day. My husband usually has terrible snacks here and it's like walking a mine field to get something decent to eat. I have to have my own stash of healthy snacks and foods so that I can eat my good stuff and not get tempted by the floury junk that I see everywhere.

Did you know that flour has as almost many calories per tbsp as sugar? 28 in flour, 48 in sugar. When you make a pastry or cookie, which do you put more in, flour or sugar? Flour. Usually about 4:1.

Stay away from the floury crap.

Jan

3. Hang tough. Tell her that if you eat what she is making, you are going to die young. That should do it.

My father used to work in a steel plant in the 1970s where the cafeteria was staffed by nice Polish ladies who tried to make him bacon and eggs and sausage for breakfast. (He was the plant manager.) He went with simple, healthy things even back then, even though they were disappointed. As he got into conversations with them, it turned out their husbands had died young, and their 40-something sons were battling heart disease and high BP.. he could see why.

I love my 28-year old son. When he stopped eating sugary stuff because he and his therapist concluded junk food made his ADD worse, I stopped keeping it around when he visited. He's thin as a rail and plays lots of basketball so I don't worry about his weight, but when he asked me not to stock the refrigerator with Ben & Jerry's for his visits, I stopped. Sometimes loving your child means not tempting them with things they've resolved not to eat. There are other ways to show you love them.

I had cake today, and chocolate, and I feel great about it. I feel fit and healthy and energetic. No sabotage here. :drinker: