I caved...........

[bottleneckblooz]

So I've been on a diet since December or something like that, doing quite well with it too, not being tempted by sweets at all. This past weekend me and the GF went to visit her mother for mothers day where they were having a Lobster boil. After the Lobster, she brought out the home made pie, strawberry, butterscotch and sugar pie. I thought, "**** it! I've been good, I deserve a damn piece of pie!" So I had a piece of butterscotch pie, and it was ****in'good!

Now today I come home from work, and there is a box on the counter, and I knew it had some kind of goodies in it. So I check and sure enough there are an assortment of delicious looking muffins and such with chocolate frosting on them.

I turned away quickly, thinking, "No, I can't! I already cheated this week!" I found myself being drawn back to the box every so often and peeking inside, and then shaking my head and closing it again. I managed to hold out until I had to go to the gym. Then I got back from the gym, all carb depleted. The box, started calling me again....at first I tried to fight it.....but in my glycogen depleted state, I just wasn't strong enough. I opened the box, and this time, I grabbed a damn muffin, and ate it.

But the good thing is that at least I managed to stop at one.:o

[Freebsd1977]

How many carbs are in that muffin? Around 40 grams is perfect for a post-workout chargeup. Take some whey protein with that muffin and you're good, I think. LOL! Fatty






















j/k bro

[bottleneckblooz]

How many carbs are in that muffin? Around 40 grams is perfect for a post-workout chargeup. Take some whey protein with that muffin and you're good, I think. LOL! Fatty



I'm not sure, but the chocolate frosting was pretty rich. Plus I already had some orange juice mixed with whey protein during/after my workout, probably about 30 grams right there.
:eek:

[champcar99]

I know better to have junk like that in the house..I am a SWEET JUNKIE BIG TIME...I used to hit Zellers, Purdey and places like that after holidays to pick up my fix at half price...

[St]

You will be fine,i have a cheat day once a week,will make it every two weeks soon.

[Sean Summers]

Funny how you can justify the cheat.


I've been good, I deserve a damn piece of pie!


but in my glycogen depleted state, I just wasn't strong enough

You may think I'm nitpicking. I'm not. Get back on track and don't blow all your previous hard work. Stay strong and stick to your plan.
SS

[Gettin'r'round]

no food talk..............ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhh

[MUSCULARMAYOR]

stay strong bro. Just think about walkin around town with just a beater on, or chillin at the beach gettin a tan. No one wants rolls at the beach bro.

[gordi]

Funny how you can justify the cheat.





You may think I'm nitpicking. I'm not. Get back on track and don't blow all your previous hard work. Stay strong and stick to your plan.
SS


Funny, I was just thinking today about how I do that kind of rationalizing all the time. Then, I read this (From Chris Shugart, one of the writers at Testosterone Nation):

Rationalization is a type of ego-defense mechanism. Basically, rationalization involves creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior. Essentially, you're lying to yourself to make yourself feel better or to relieve guilt.

To relieve his guilt about stealing from the office, a person may tell himself, "Well, they underpay me anyway. It's only fair." Someone may try to relieve his guilt about cheating on his girlfriend by saying, "Well, I'd had a few beers, so I wasn't in my right mind."

When I grasped the definition of rationalization, my ego-protecting, guilt-relieving wall of lies came crashing down. Hard. And once a person grasps the concept, it's almost impossible to un-grasp it.

I saw immediately what I was doing to myself by overeating and not working out. All my excuses became transparent. I became angry and disgusted with myself. It was a hard lesson, but from that day forward I learned to recognize rationalization and put a stop to it.

Here's the power of this recognition: once you're aware of rationalization, it's very hard to keep doing it. And once you stop doing it, it's amazing how quickly you start to achieve your goals.

As with many other aspects of life, rationalization is probably the single biggest roadblock in a person's way when he or she is trying to lose fat, add muscle, get healthy, or increase performance. We always seem to have a good reason to skip a workout or eat something we know is bad for us. We're not lying to others about why we're doing these negative things; we're lying to ourselves.

I think what broke me out of my downward spiral of rationalization was mostly the realization that what I was doing -- self-directed lying to excuse my bad diet and lack of training -- had been named and defined by a psychologist. I mean, I was doing something that negatively affected my whole life, and it had been defined and placed into psychology textbooks 100 years ago! Again, this made it very difficult to keep doing it. The act of recognition alone helped me to stop making these thin excuses and get on with changing my behaviors.

Here are some examples of rationalization related to body-transformation:

"I had a good workout today. I can have the Chinese buffet tonight."

"I don't have time to exercise."

"I've had a tough week. I deserve a big meal."

"I'll start the diet next week or next month."

The latter example is a special form of rationalization I call justified procrastination. To procrastinate means to put something off until another day. Justified procrastination is when you put something off -- like starting an exercise program or a diet -- but rationalize the delay. Example:

"I'll start the diet after my birthday (or vacation or holiday, etc.)"

Sometimes, there may be a real reason not to start the diet (waiting for your supplement order to arrive for example.) But for the most part, the time to start any training program or diet is now. There is great power in immediate action. Ninety-percent of delays are merely justified procrastination, and you must learn to recognize it and squash it.



Then after reading that I came here and read this thread.

I've got to say that I agree with Sean.

Everybody breaks down and cheats once in a while... but I think if we can learn to recognise the ways we try and rationalize bad eating habits it can really help us to break them.

[Juicy_brucy]

Gord, good post.
I guess I have a lot to think about.

[Musclehead]

If you have designated cheat days, or at least a good high carb day this will definitely help with your cravings. Usually if I've had a really good junk day (well deserved at that) I feel guilty and it makes it SO much easier to stick to your diet.

[Demonwolf]

throw it in the dumpster, you know the homeless dude will enjoy it.