Current Weight: 69.3 kgs
It is always when we're excelling that the universe decides this is an excellent opportunity to test you, and family get togethers would have to be the absolute worst for that. Everything you have been telling yourself not to eat is set out all over your kitchen table and if you don't eat, it could seem rude, so what's a girl (or boy) to do? Short of insuring your seat is by the fruit/veggie platter there really isn't a lot you can do. So my suggestion from what happened to me today, 1. go in with a game plan and 2. forgive yourself when it all goes wrong.
I wasn't aware I was expecting company so I had my little (and sadly last, see previous posts) bowl of cereal, and then had every intention of spacing out my snacks and meal replacement shakes nicely over the day, then working out this evening. But it was not meant to be because before I knew it, I was chopping up Cebana, various cheeses, and setting out the chips and dip for all of my visitors! I thought to myself at first, "okay, this could be a good thing, a distraction! I'll be so busy talking and organising I won't cheat on my diet at all!" but then the reality of my diet hit me.. rather hard.. I eat meal replacement shakes or bars, that is all I would be eating because I had had my balanced meal already.. I would have to explain that to my guests and then endure the endless questions or just plain staring.
So I decided, after carefully reading the nutritional information on the back of every item being served I would obviously have to eat normally today, sensibly, but atleast another main meal, my diet could be recovered tomorrow, hopefully!
Unfortunately, I hadn't anticipated the effect this sudden freedom was going to have on my appetite, when you're controlling your eating, there will always be times when you are hungry, but you get through it, you wait those extra few minutes and make a sensible choice.. and when you finish dieting, you bring yourself back into eating a sustainable amount of food, but this part is done slowly allowing you to maintain that level of control you gained while dieting.
Long story short, I actually did spend most of my time stalking the veggies, and while staring intently at the bowl of chips and biscuits I nibbled away at an excessive amount of chopped carrot and fruits, I wasn't even aware I was doing this half of the time, it was probably the best example of unconscious eating I've ever shown. Since I had missed my CS meal, even after eating the equivalent of a horses diet in grapes, I really needed something more solid, and ended up nibbling away at the cheese platter as well. I was hoping that that would be the end of it, but the surprises just kept on coming! and I also found myself eating a burger, and a bit of cake and icecream- I hadn't known they were on the menu. By dinner time I was full and actually feeling very sick, I hadn't had such large amounts of food in atleast a week, it wasn't necessarily the types of food, so much as the shear size of the portions.
"The only people who never make mistakes, are those who never try anything. Own it, forgive yourself, move on."
When my workout finally came, I was tempted to just leave it for the night, I was tired and bloated and just wanted to sit and dwell on what the scales were going to say tomorrow, but then I got up, put in a dvd and although clumsily, managed to get to the end of it. Tomorrow I'll stand there, be annoyed that my progress has been set back, but dwelling on it won't fix it, all we can do is keep moving forward!
and so, to finish in the words of Scarlet, "Afterall, tomorrow is another day!".. and I plan to use it wisely :)
Tips from today:
* To help with the over full, sick feeling, I drank a glass of water with 2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice, this is extremely helpful with digestion on any day, not just when you've overindulged, and doesn't taste too bad either. (If you truly hate lemon, add more water to further dilute it)
* Plan and distract yourself at family gatherings, try to be aware of yourself at all times, entertaining; it personally puts me on edge and makes me nervous (for no particular reason), which leads to that unconscious eating I spoke about, so try to focus on what you are doing at all times, but be reasonable about your options, some people won't take "no, I'm not hungry" or "no." as an answer without a serious explanation accompanied by flowchart, it can also seem rude not to eat what you are serving people.
* No matter how many times you stop for a break, if you keep walking you will eventually get where you're going.
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