Eating off plan: recovery plan

March 25, 2006

I had an " ah ha " moment today. Stopped off at Trader Joe's after my

HIIT followed by Jazzercise. I ate 3 Oreo type cookies/samples.

When I got home, I had my 2nd meal protein and carb.

I felt bad/guilty/sabotage.

Then I realized, if I substitute that carb cheat for the carb part of

my snack or meal, and went on with the day, it wouldn't be perfect at

all, but I could

1. remove the guilt

2. enjoy the very occasional cheat (one time per day would be still a

victory over my past eating, if it were like 1 hershey kiss... it

depends on the size of the transgression)

3. count it as a protein-carb not perfect meal

4. go on to the next meal and the day and the week.

Last week, a coworker brought me a pastry as a thank you for hard work,

and I ate it. But I managed the rest of the day so poorly that I wound

up needing to call Tuesday my free day. I think that I will be trying

to manage cheats in the rest of my challenge 2 in this way, of

including the carb " cheat " as just a not perfect choice but part of my

protein/carb/fat, and see what that does to my psyche and my hips ;-)

Etana

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Felicity wrote:

>today i read on hussman's site -- and i thought it was a good

>suggestion -- if you find you keep going off plan with food, try

>putting a small amount of cheating INTO the plan -- that was you can

stay on plan

felicity

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n paraphrased :

>she seems more long-term success from the women who eat something

>off-plan, and then just keeping going with their 'previously scheduled

>program' than with people who eat something off-plan and say, " omg,

I'm a

>failure, I have to quit, BFL doesn't work for me, woe is me "

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