Weakness...?
NuttMeggpg
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So I was making dinner the other day and really really wanted a bowl of ice cream after. But I didn't want just any bowl...I wanted like a huge one!! I wanted like a cup and a half worth of ice cream. On a usual day I am perfectly fine with the normal serving size (2/3 cup) but that day I just wanted to indulge. Not only that but I had already had a cheese burger for lunch that day and so I had already used up like 80% of my calories for the day. I felt terrible about the thought of giving in to that ice cream because I had been doing so good for like the last week and a half and I had already given in to one weakness that day. I had even worked out that day and I was still wanting to go like 500 Calories over my budget!! Do these urges ever go away?? Especially if ice cream is my favorite food!!! I don't feel them all the time but when I do I want to indulge like CRAZY!!! Is it bad to give in to them sometimes?? And If I do give into them do I have to work out like 10 times harder the next day just to even things out?? I just feel like I will never be able to eat those things that I like to now without feeling guilty about it!! Do you have these weaknesses like I do? If so, How do you handle it? Do you have any suggestions on how I can deal with this??
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I just had a need for chocolate cake last night. Man I thought I might eat my own arm and pretend it was chocolate cake! The reality is we have to live with food. Instead of having a huge bowl, have the 2/3 cup, even if you go over your calories a little bit it's okay as if you don't fill the need for the ice cream then you will eat your way around it and eat everything else and still eat the calories and end up still wanting the ice cream.
I started making this deal with myself. If I eat something that I shouldn't have then the next day I have to do regular exercises and then enough exercise to burn the number of calories that that treat was...once I started seeing how much work it took to burn off those calories that I shouldn't have had it made me choose how much I really wanted to have that treat and usually made me eat less of it.
A cup and a half of cookie dough icecream is equal to 860 calories. That means I have to run an hour and a half to burn that 860 calories just to make myself equal. It doesn't work to say it to yourself...you actually have to put your body through the paces to really KNOW that you don't want the ice cream or at least as much ice cream. A half of a cup of ice cream is equal to 270 calories. So the half a cup of ice cream is easier to burn off than the cup and a half...soon you just choose the 1/2 cup because you don't want to get on that treadmill for 90 minutes of running!
It works for me anyway. Let us know what works for you during all of this and all of the changes...0
