I’ve declared today (Martin Luther King Day) an eating holiday. It’s only fair. It’s what the King would have wanted (of course, I’m referring to the glutton Elvis). All holidays should be declared free-for-all eating days. Every dieting guru tells you to have an occasional free day where you eat those things that you’ve been depriving yourself… which for me is most types of calories. I’ve been told that one of the main problems with my diet is that I apparently have too many free days. If I learned to limit them to national holidays I might have a better handle on those free days.
Honestly, my bad eating days don’t always start out bad, instead they usually begin with some resolve to have a great day… what I would call an “on” day. An “on” day is where I’ll say something about 10 a.m. like, “Hey, I’m really ‘on’ today I’ve only eaten rice cakes, non-fat yogurt and tree bark. This is going to be a great day and I’ll reap the benefits at tomorrow morning’s weigh-in.” But, something usually slips throughout the “on” day (namely my self control). Then, once I screw up and eat what I know I shouldn’t eat, it’s just so easy to free fall into a “off” day and everything banned on diets seems to appear before me. Now, a rational person reading this might think, “Why does it have to be an ‘off’ day if you mess up with one meal? Why not just get back on your ‘on’ day and not let the entire day be wasted with bad food?” Well my skinny friend, that is a legitimate question and if I had an answer to that simplistic question I wouldn’t describe my eating habits as out of control, undisciplined and psychotic.
Like Martin Luther King, I’ve had a dream for 15 years that I could conquer this complex body-system that is called a metabolism. I know I will… I’ve just got to string a series of “on” days together and limit the “off” days to every other leap year. For now, I’ll have an “off” day today in observance of Martin Luther King Day and I’ll get back “on” tomorrow. Then, I’ll wait for the next national holiday that will appears in a couple of weeks—the Super Bowl.
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I hear you. I know it's easy to make it an 'off' day if you mess up with just one meal. One thing you could work on is to not to have 'forbidden' or 'bad' foods. Make all foods okay - you just need to limit them.
ReplyDeleteInstead of taking out bad foods - add in good ones. By adding in more & more good ones, over time the 'bad' foods will be less & less in your diet. Seriously.
You can also have one day a week a 'treat' day. There will be less deprivation (as you can eat treats one day a week). You need to SLOWLY add in more of the good foods, and take out more the 'bad' foods. Once you lose the weight & gain control of your eating, you'll find that balance between the good & bad foods. Hope this helps!
Dinneen