Happy Birthday to Me! I'm Keeping the Car!
You've been wonderfully faithful to your diet or maintenance program and then comes the slide--that extra hot dog at the summer barbecue leads to just a "smidge" of dessert, which leaves you hungering and hankering for just a bit more sugar--one more handful of nuts, a couple of extra cookies and another glass of wine and by the end of the evening you look back at your caloric count and your bloated belly and you're wondering if you're on your way back to "fattitude."
Just when you thought you had the weight loss game licked--you were faithful to your exercise routine, you banned all sugary foods from the house, something made you slide and you just can't get back on the wagon. Does this sound familiar? To those of us who have lost (and sometimes gained) weight again and again, the cycle is one we fear. I can attest to the difficulty--I deal with it daily. I'm dealing with it now--and it is hard.
One personal trainer I interviewed for the book had some excellent advice for me. He said, "Don't let yourself fall for 'trash the car' syndrome. If you are driving and get a flat, you aren't about to say, 'oh, well, I may as well just sell the car,' right? Likewise you would be crazy to let a diet disaster day put you on a totally destructive downturn."
Instead, he said, make sure that the day after your diet disaster, you detox. Eat plenty of carb burning veggies and drink lots of water to flush out the bloat, go to the gym and sweat some of the excess calories out. We all have diet disaster days, he assured me. But the trick is to remember that we have invested in a car that we enjoy--a smooth running mean machine--and selling it because of one flat tire, is ridiculous.
With that in mind, to celebrate my birthday, I have just invested in a treadmill for my basement. I can't think of a better way to ensure that I can "make time for the gym" each and every day! Beats birthday cake, don't you think? Yeah, I'm keeping THIS car!
what about the birthday cake?
Posted by:rachel | August 11, 2007 at 10:35 PM