I was out of town for the weekend and ran head first into the largest challenge my diet faces - being away from home.
I'm finding that when I'm 'out of my comfort zone' my diet suffers horribly. I'm constrained by group decisions on where and when to eat and the choices of what to eat are often a challenge.
Now I can whine about it, or I can grab it and acknowledge that it will be tough, So yeah, I knew it would be tough. I managed breakfast pretty well with banana, coffee and Quest bars, but lunch and dinner were 'diet busters'.
Goodbye daily points! Goodbye weekly points! Hello tasty food.
The worst part - being awake half the night feeling like I was going to be sick.
This is a case where my body has adapted to the new diet, but clearly my brain is lagging behind.
You always hear that "it's not a diet, it's a life style change." Well, it's true! You have to change the way you eat to say no to foods you used to eat. Or to be sure to keep you activity levels high to burn off the excess calories you consumed.
Sadly, I failed at both this weekend.
But that was then, this is now. (Nice S.E. Hinton, reference, eh?) I'm not going to beat myself up over that. Sure, I went 'off mission' with the diet. But I had good meals with good friends and that's not a bad thing. Now it's back on the diet, back on the treadmill and attack the excess weight. And remember how I felt in the middle of the night on Saturday when I couldn't remember if I wanted to throw up or not...
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