Where did my motivation go?
I was doing so great, then the Holidays came. I fell off track really bad. I promised myself I would get right back on track the first of the year. Then it was as soon as I went back to work after having almost 2 weeks off. Now here it is the 6th of January and I have not made it through a whole day without falling off the wagon! Today is a big BD party for my oldest grandchildren. Cody turned 8 on the first and his sister Natasha turned 5. I have told myself enough is enough. I am going to do this, tomorrow is a brand new day! I am tirerd of beating myself up like I have for the past week! I know that I can do it and I will do it. I am going to start using the food journal again and the excercise journal. I did so well before using the food journal.
I hope everyone is having a great weekend!
I really understand what you mean. I tried to have an OP day during the holidays and I just never made it happen. You know what it takes, you (We) just have to be tough and stick with it. Wishing you the best!
Nana4, we keep doing the same thing over and over again until we change it. It’s like getting stuck in a cycle of the same old ways of eating, reacting and feelings because we at least know that territory well. It’s a whole different road to take to eat healthy every day no matter what the occasion is.
I think that whenever we separate good eating and bad eating, it tends to rule us in a negative way. incorporating holidays and special occasions into our healthy eating plan is s challenge, but not impossible. The balance happens when we stop thinking that one bite of something that is not on our plan is an excuse to continue eating that way in a snowball effect.
A suggestion: On the day of the birthday party, eat the foods on your plan and choose one item at the party and have a half serving of it. The trick to enjoy it for what it is, a special day with your grandchildren, not a big game of tug of war with your eating.
I have been through this very same thing you’re going through, year after year. I finally stopped it. I made the decision to enjoy the second half of my life without going through the upheavals and crazies that my uncontrolled eating had taken me. Sending you positive thoughts!
Here’s an idea to try to re-motivate yourself…
Try reading some of the posts YOU have made to others over the time you’ve been on Buddy Slim. Read them as if someone wrote them to you.
YOU ARE the motivation!!