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Full Speed Ahead On Your Diet
How do you handle a slip on your weight loss plan? Do you consider that you've "blown it" or a mere speed bump and move forward on the same day with your next meal? For those of us that diet, sometimes we consider that day a loss and eat off our diet plan until the next day or even the following Monday. These slip ups will happen just as life happens. Merely consider them speed bumps and move ahead on your diet, full speed ahead.
The process of eating healthy and losing weight isn’t a straight shot path without any bends, turns, or speed bumps. Along the way, you’re going to make a food choice that isn’t on your diet plan. It isn’t a question of “if” more than “when.” Dieting isn’t meant to be rigid and inflexible. There are times that you’re going to eat off your program and make less than healthy choices. That is reality and this thing called “life.”
The key to success is what you do the majority of time. Dieting and losing weight isn’t shining a spotlight on a single choice, a specific day or two. It is a zoom out perspective of what you do over the period of a few days, weeks, and months. We didn’t become overweight with one bad choice or even “going for it” for a few days. We’ve become overweight through multiple unhealthy choices over a prolonged period of time. Don’t let a bad choice derail you. Don’t wait until the next day or the following Monday to begin again. When you make a bad choice, pick yourself up and begin again right then. You don’t have to beat yourself for a bad choice but congratulate yourself for getting right back on track. That’s a big reason to feel very proud of yourself.
Many of us expect perfection of ourselves when it comes to our weight loss program. When we go off track, we feel disappointed and discouraged. It’s your consistent eating patterns over weeks and months that matter and add up to weight loss. Those few slips-ups are merely speed bumps in the road. When you get past the speed bump of a food slip up, put your pedal t the metal and move full speed ahead to continue your weight loss success. The occasional slip-ups do not determine your weight loss success.
When you find yourself getting back on track, here are some suggested strategies to stay on track:
* Eat only fruits and vegetables for between meal snacks.
Drink 64 ounces of water or 8 glasses per day. This will help you feel less hungry and your metabolism running efficiently and at its maximum.
* Do not skip meals to make up for an earlier calorie indulgence. Skipping meals only serves to slow down your metabolism.
Record your food and activity. Write down what you eating, even a taste of this or a bite of that.
* Sugar-free and fat-free choices count. These choices are not calorie-free. Make sure you’re not eating excessive amounts of these types of foods and thinking they are free of calories.
* By exercising, you’ll gain the feeling of control and being back on your diet track.
* Don’t beat yourself up for choices you can’t take back. Note why you made the food choices that you did and learn from them for the future. You can use these speed bumps as lessons for future choices.
The journey to weight loss success isn’t determined with one choice. Zoom out in your perspective and know that your weight loss success comes in consistent healthy choices. Persistence with your weight loss plan is what is important. Look at your weight loss as a continual journey that has a few speed bumps along the way and has the most beautiful scenery that is your life. Enjoy!