Close your eyes.
Now visualize (wait...if you close your eyes, you can't read this, huh? Okay...then, keep your eyes open!)
Just think about the following scenario, if you please:
You have chosen to follow an eating plan that includes two meal replacements, three snacks and one meal. That one meal is balanced and heavy on vegetables (which you do not particularly care for) and greens. Now it's time for Vacation!!
You are prepared though. You pack up all your supplements and even have a grocery list ready so you can immediately go to the store for the items you need.
But then you find yourself at the grocery store and it's an experience you haven't had before. This store has so many yummy foods ready and available to eat. It's difficult to make the right decision, but you do. And then you find yourself dining with someone daily who is eating Gourmet Macaroni and Cheese and Birthday cake.
How do you feel? Are you hungry? Do you still look at your broccoli with love? (Did you EVER look at your broccoli with love?)
I will tell you what I did. I said to my friend, "I don't want to eat the F-ing broccoli."
And get this! My friend says, "So don't eat the F-ing broccoli." Well. What a concept. So I didn't! I had mac-n-cheese. And it was divine!
Overall though, while staying with my one friend for the first five days, I stayed pretty decently on plan. Next, enter chaos. I had two days where I was here, there and everywhere in terms of living arrangements and daily plans.
Bye-bye eating plan.
Hello the I-may-as-well-enjoy-myself-plan!
Because I stayed an extra day to rest before coming back home, my weigh-in appointment was postponed by a week. Perfect! I will follow the plan so strictly that I will undo any damage I did in the five days I ate like a pig.
Humph! The first two days, I was a complete "female dog." I wanted "real" food. I wanted the headache to go away. I wanted to be left ALONE! And so I did not follow the plan as well as I hoped.
Come time for weigh-in and I was SHOCKED. No loss (big surprise there). No gain. That's right. No gain! WOW!!! Wooohooo!!!! Now I am revved up and ready to go full-steam ahead. I have just re-committed!
Funny how long things like "Re-commitment" last. See ya next time for the rest!
Now visualize (wait...if you close your eyes, you can't read this, huh? Okay...then, keep your eyes open!)
Just think about the following scenario, if you please:
You have chosen to follow an eating plan that includes two meal replacements, three snacks and one meal. That one meal is balanced and heavy on vegetables (which you do not particularly care for) and greens. Now it's time for Vacation!!
You are prepared though. You pack up all your supplements and even have a grocery list ready so you can immediately go to the store for the items you need.
But then you find yourself at the grocery store and it's an experience you haven't had before. This store has so many yummy foods ready and available to eat. It's difficult to make the right decision, but you do. And then you find yourself dining with someone daily who is eating Gourmet Macaroni and Cheese and Birthday cake.
How do you feel? Are you hungry? Do you still look at your broccoli with love? (Did you EVER look at your broccoli with love?)
I will tell you what I did. I said to my friend, "I don't want to eat the F-ing broccoli."
And get this! My friend says, "So don't eat the F-ing broccoli." Well. What a concept. So I didn't! I had mac-n-cheese. And it was divine!
Overall though, while staying with my one friend for the first five days, I stayed pretty decently on plan. Next, enter chaos. I had two days where I was here, there and everywhere in terms of living arrangements and daily plans.
Bye-bye eating plan.
Hello the I-may-as-well-enjoy-myself-plan!
Because I stayed an extra day to rest before coming back home, my weigh-in appointment was postponed by a week. Perfect! I will follow the plan so strictly that I will undo any damage I did in the five days I ate like a pig.
Humph! The first two days, I was a complete "female dog." I wanted "real" food. I wanted the headache to go away. I wanted to be left ALONE! And so I did not follow the plan as well as I hoped.
Come time for weigh-in and I was SHOCKED. No loss (big surprise there). No gain. That's right. No gain! WOW!!! Wooohooo!!!! Now I am revved up and ready to go full-steam ahead. I have just re-committed!
Funny how long things like "Re-commitment" last. See ya next time for the rest!
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