Don’t stress – just move on

If you’re currently trying to achieve a weight loss goal, or just trying to eat healthier and keep a check on your portion sizes – it’s probably safe to say that at some point you’ve over eaten, made poor food choices, and fallen right off the wagon. Even now, I can still find it really hard to be disciplined with my food ALL of the time. Most days it’s really good, but some days (probably days when I might be home nearly all day and confusing boredom with hunger) I can really struggle and I have to work hard to create distractions, keep busy, and keep out of the kitchen.

In a perfect world, we’d all be on track all of the time, but unfortunately life’s not like that, and there WILL be days when we’re not so disciplined (I’m NOT encouraging it – but I am human and I know that it happens!!).

Often, after a bad day, we can get down on ourselves, which can then lead to more comfort eating, more sadness, etc. You may have gone from feeling great, and proud of yourself for your super choices, to feeling like you’ve failed and have no self control. Goals can go out the window and then more sadness and feeling negative.

The good news is, you can break the sadness/comfort-eating cycle by fixing things – straight away. Make a mental note of how it’s made you feel, and move on. Don’t waste time feeling bad or beating yourself up, clearly that will not help anyone. If I mess up, I actually get excited about fixing it up and how great I’ll feel when I’m back on track.

When you’re down and out about the choices you’ve made, breathe, maybe go for a long walk, get some fresh air, remind yourself you’re only human, and start planning how you’re going to turn things around. That might mean planning your great meals for the rest of the week, locking in when you’ll exercise, and re-focusing on your goals and how you want to feel or look. This is obviously much more enjoyable and helpful than being a sad-sack, feeling yuck, and possibly heading back to the kitchen to try and make yourself feel better.

LIfe’s not perfect, far from it, and neither are we. Of course I’m a big supporter of making great choices, and eating a nutritious and balanced diet as often as you can, but when you stray off track, which is likely to happen over the next few weeks, feeling bad about it is a huge waste of energy and you deserve better.

Move on – there’s nothing that can’t be fixed!! Sure your progress might have slowed, but again, life’s not perfect and these things happen. Look forward to being back to your best and feeling like a super-star again!!

Have a great day,

Paula