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Maybe I just don't want it bad enough?
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I looked at your gallery. Moms need and deserve some time off. (Sweet baby!)
Now ... Your break is over! Get that discipline back!
Now ... Your break is over! Get that discipline back!
Sassy69
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LOL That pretty much says it. Eating clean & eating shitty -- its all a cycle just like everything else about us. For me, when my diet goes, it means I've lost control of some part of my life and I'm no longer focused on anything that can provide me any sense of satisfaction. Therefore I know I can always find it in my KitKat Bites. But like Gymgurl's quote -- "immediate gratification, delayed regret".
If you fall off, just get back on . It isn't the end of the world.
If you fall off, just get back on . It isn't the end of the world.
aandd said:
My two personal favorites:
On my refrigerator: "Food is for fuel, not for pleasure."
On my elliptical trainer: "A goddess isn't built in a day."
In general: "Nothing worth having is ever easy."
If it was food, consider it your cheat day ... if it was more than a day, consider that you were taking a few days to get your metabolism revved, you carbed up and you're ready to jump back into the swim.
If it was skipping exercise, it was rest and rest never hurts, when it comes to weight training more people are guilty of UNDER-resting than anything else.
A healthy lifestyle shouldn't be something you constantly beat yourself up over. Once in a while you have to take a break from it, review, reassess, and that's not bad. In the grand scheme of things you really do have a lifetime to work on your body, becoming perfect overnight wouldn't make it much of a challenge, would it?
MuscleMom said:
I'm going to have to disagree with this. Do not try and fool yourself with saying ok it was a cheat, or you were getting your metabolism revved, or it was a carb up day. Because you'll learn to trick yourself more often.
Be honest with yourself you slipped, nothing wrong with that, it happens to the best of us. Just pick yourself up and get back to it. This probably wasn't the 1st time you fell, and I promise you it won't be the last. Don't beat yourself up over it, it happened you can't change it, just get back to the diet, and try harder.
Believe me it happens to all of us. It doesn't matter how focused or how much willpower you have their isn't a woman on this site that hasn't fallen off of her diet at least once at some point.
Hell I fell off once and landed in a big bag of pecans, I'm sure Bunny remembers lol. I wanted to cry because it was close to a competition, I couldn't believe I was eating them, yet I couldn't stop.
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scorpiogirl
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You're not going through anything everyone else hasn't gone through! Just don't give up. If you think you can do it, you CAN!!! Dedication, determination, motivation.
If you haven't already, try putting some pics of the body you want up on the refridgerator. The more you see it, the better it will stick in your brain.
If you haven't already, try putting some pics of the body you want up on the refridgerator. The more you see it, the better it will stick in your brain.
Woman!! Get yer ass off the couch and get movin'! *blows whistle ever-so-annoyingly in your ear*
I can totally totally TOTALLY relate to you sweets. I have to give us moms mad props....it's tough juggling parenting, work, health, gym, etc. Being a single mommy...the only way i've been able to make a transformation is making a daily re-dedication to my goals...otherwise, it would have been WAY too easy for me to fall off the wagon. Stay focused doll. If you need anything....we're all here.
I can totally totally TOTALLY relate to you sweets. I have to give us moms mad props....it's tough juggling parenting, work, health, gym, etc. Being a single mommy...the only way i've been able to make a transformation is making a daily re-dedication to my goals...otherwise, it would have been WAY too easy for me to fall off the wagon. Stay focused doll. If you need anything....we're all here.
Miss24k said:
I don't do it as a "mind trick," or some pitiful form of placation, frankly, it's more like trying to find the silver lining. I don't beat myself up over dietary or exercise trangressions, life's too short.
I'm probably a little older than you, when I was younger I spent way too much time finding too much fault with myself, and all that resulted in was my not truly appreciating what I had when I was at the top of my game, so to speak. Now, instead of saying "fat - stupid - lazy - no willpower - idiot," I realize, "whoops, overdid it" and move on. To focus on nothing BUT the overindulgence and find nothing but fault with myself and NO redeeming qualities in anything I've just done only compounds the situation. I would just beat myself up even worse.
I'm just saying that you have to do what works for you; I have to do what works for me. All Aandd asked for was words of motivation we have, which sort of almost falls into opinions, and since opinions are individual things, there is really no right or wrong (so lets leave it at that). A lifetime of health is just that, and it takes time and work. Constant unremitting striving towards inplacable perfection is a guaranteed path to misery. Put another way ... you have the potential of ending up with the perfect body, but you may never get a chance to take it out and have any fun with it.
Peace.
MuscleMom said:
Oh boy!
Let me clarify something, when I said "you'll learn to trick yourself" I wasn't referring to you, I was referring to Aandd. If that works for you then great, and I'm happy for you. But that doesn't work for everyone, all I was saying was there is no need for her to try and trick or lie to herself with saying it was a "carb-up" when she knows damn well it wasn't.
There is nothing wrong with saying "damn I slipped up on my diet yesterday, ok today is a new day, and start over"
I also never said anything about what was right and wrong, I said I disagree with your approach (my personal opinion). And I apologize if you think I was attacking you, or think I was dismissing your post, I didn't mean for it to come across like that.
I do agree with must of what you are saying. This is a lifestyle and everyone needs to find their "happy medium". At the end of the day beauty is only skin deep. And if someone is constantly miserible with dieting and training well then maybe this lifestyle isn't for them. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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