Talking yourself into eating the bad instead of the good

Prepare a serving of oven baked fries, add a salad and a tablespoon mayonnaise and enjoy your meal.

Prepare a serving of oven baked fries, add a salad and a tablespoon mayonnaise and enjoy your meal.

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I'm going to give you some hard advice. It was advice that I didn't want to hear, but someone had to tell me before I understood.

The only thing that's standing in your way to success.... is you. It's all a mental game change. You had a bad weekend. Accept it, and get over it. Move on. Learn from what triggered it, and say "Well next time, I won't...." or "Next time, I'll need to..." You shouldn't beat yourself over it, because one meal isn't going to break you, just like one meal didn't make you. It's a process, and its a learning curve. You know the phrase "Forgive, but never forget." ? Apply that to your eating. Forgive yourself, but never forget how it made you feel afterwards.

That be said, I've definitely talked myself into poor eating before. I find that if I want to snack mindlessly (when I realize I'm NOT hungry), I try and identify WHY. Am I bored, am I stressed, am I unhappy, am I feeling down, am I about to PMS? Once I identify the reason, I try to address it. If I'm bored, I'll find something to do. Read a book, surf the web, clean the house. SOMETHING. I also find that chewing gum really helps, because it prevents me from snacking. I have to think about taking the gum out of my mouth to put something else in (this is especially helpful if you snack while cooking).

Only you can get your eating back on the right track. The real question is, do you want this bad enough? Do you REALLY want those potatoes over your ultimate goal? Don't give up what you want MOST, for what you want now.

I'm going to give you some hard advice. It was advice that I didn't want to hear, but someone had to tell me before I understood.

The only thing that's standing in your way to success.... is you. It's all a mental game change. You had a bad weekend. Accept it, and get over it. Move on. Learn from what triggered it, and say "Well next time, I won't...." or "Next time, I'll need to..." You shouldn't beat yourself over it, because one meal isn't going to break you, just like one meal didn't make you. It's a process, and its a learning curve. You know the phrase "Forgive, but never forget." ? Apply that to your eating. Forgive yourself, but never forget how it made you feel afterwards.

That be said, I've definitely talked myself into poor eating before. I find that if I want to snack mindlessly (when I realize I'm NOT hungry), I try and identify WHY. Am I bored, am I stressed, am I unhappy, am I feeling down, am I about to PMS? Once I identify the reason, I try to address it. If I'm bored, I'll find something to do. Read a book, surf the web, clean the house. SOMETHING. I also find that chewing gum really helps, because it prevents me from snacking. I have to think about taking the gum out of my mouth to put something else in (this is especially helpful if you snack while cooking).

Only you can get your eating back on the right track. The real question is, do you want this bad enough? Do you REALLY want those potatoes over your ultimate goal? Don't give up what you want MOST, for what you want now.

I am so dealing with this same exact issue...I keep wanting to get healthy and making changes and I continue to talk myself out of the healthy eating and into eating crap and then I feel guilty and ashamed and the whole thing starts all over EVEN THOUGH I KNOW IT WILL ONLY MAKE ME FEEL MISERABLE. It is so stupid and yet even though I know it, I just keep doing it. Its like I need to have some kind of dysfunction in my life.