Beans on toast (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Over the last couple of days I’ve been misbehaving quite a bit. I haven’t been sticking to my diet as strictly as I should and I feel quite guilty, though I also feel like I lack motivation.
I’ve eaten things that I know I shouldn’t eat and earlier this evening I was very very tempted to order a takeaway (I didn’t in the end and opted for baked beans on toast and soup, but it was “touch and go” for a few minutes!)
I guess part of the problem is that I’m a little bit stressed after the entire house break-in the other day.
I’ll hopefully get past it, but even before the disruption this week I wasn’t feeling too good about my diet.
Why?
Progress. Or the lack of it.
I had been seeing reasonably good weight loss for the first month or so that I was dieting, but now it seems to have practically flat-lined.
Tomorrow, or more correctly – later today, I’ll go and do my weekly grocery shopping and stock the cupboards with plenty of fresh vegetables, fruit and the other stuff that I’ll need for my planned meals over the next week.
Hopefully I’ll be feeling a little less stressed and more motivated tomorrow!
Diet and EXERCISE man, you need to couple them to carry on seeing result, besides, you will also build up your body.
Let me ask just one question.
Do you have a cheat day per week in your diet diary?
If you don’t, than is time to re-think your strategy of dieting.
When you, all of a sudden deprive your body from all the “good” & “nice” things in your diet, it responds with craving therefore depression starts setting in.
If I tell you that from the time the bottle of milk that you have in the fridge now, is finished, you are not allowed milk any more. That’s it. It’s the last time you’ll have milk.
What will be your reaction? Will you start using less & less to make it last?
It’s a normal reaction, you start panic, in turn lowering your will-power and give in.
The milk is just an example (maybe a bad one), but it’s a normal human behaviour.
To avoid this, add a cheat day in your weekly diet where you are allowed to eat certain foods that you wouldn’t eat during the week.
This way, you’ll have something to look forward to, but just because you allow yourself, don’t over do it. 🙂