Yesterday, I went to a "Soft Landings" class and the therapist that was running the class made a really good point that I thought I would share.
I know I have done this millions of times, and I'm sure everyone has. You know when you are on a diet of some form, and you have a bad day and your entire thought pattern is "well, I blew it! No point in getting back on track today" well, here is her take on that:
When you get in a car accident, and you break your drivers side headlight - do you break the other one just cause you already broke one?
Or
When you go out to dinner, and you spill dressing on your shirt, do you say "Aww, screw it" and pour the entire bottle on your shirt?
No, you don't, so why would someone do the same with diet and exercise? I'm going to try to remember that when I have a bad day, and hopefully, it will work. :-)
This is true. I feel like this all too often.
ReplyDeleteA big part of this whole thing is retraining our thought process. This is definitely a great lesson to learn and probably one of the most important ones. One crappy choice isn't what causes us to gain weight. It's when we make one after another after another that's the problem. So if we learn to stop after the one mistake, then that's a huge step in the right direction.
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