Am I the Only One Who's Not Agonizing over The Holiday?
I ate what I wanted over Christmas and New Year, eggnog, brownie, slice of pie... and I don't feel a hint of guilt. I consider myself pretty disciplined for the most part but I believe that Christmas is special in that you can indulge yourself in the moment a bit.
Nah, I don't feel bad about it either. I didn't do myself any harm, though I didn't lose weight, I didn't gain any either. I guess we didn't have giant eating-fests like some families do, we do things pretty low-key anyway.
heh I didn't just indulge at christmas though I indulged half november and all of december!
However... surely part of this process is to realise that there's almost no point feeling guilty when we slip up/lapse/relapse - just try to learn where I went 'wrong' and get back on track
So no... no guilt here just a smidge annoyed cos now I gotta relose the same pounds! lol
Well, I try not to have guilt for whatever eating choices I make. Because it is really counterproductive for me....feeling bad makes me eat more.
That doesn't mean, however, that I have to feel like I made the best possible choices in December. I didn't. Lots of reasons for that, but I didn't stay on plan the way I would have liked.
Luckily, I learned from this Christmas season, and next year I will do better. I taught myself a lesson, both in the scale in the way I felt...sick, tired, and sluggish. At this point, learning from it all I can do (well, that, and returning directly to plan...and downing cold meds to treat the sickness that happened when I suppressed my immune system with sugar! I'm on it!)
I didn't really overeat at all... which is odd cause I normally go crazy since I'm the family baker. I made over 7 different kinds of cookies and I had one of each, just to test em. AMAZING! lol
But you shouldn't feel guilty... just don't justify it.
I agree with mandalinn82 that guilt is so counterproductive...
So long as you know it's not ok to eat like that everyday... I think you're golden... happy new year!
I think the one area in which I disappointed myself was that if I'm claiming to be making a lifestyle change, I didn't do all that hot over the holidays. If I had truly changed my lifestyle I probably would NOT have eaten a pound of chocolate chip cookies and cheeseball on New Year's Eve. This is especially considering the fact that I had a box of tostino's pizza rolls and 1/2 a back of fire cheetos. Haha.
I ate pretty much whatever I wanted, I mean I didn't feel GUILTY but I knew I shouldn't have done it just because its not good for my body? I wouldn't call that guilty though because I wasn't feeling that way because I knew I was going to gain weight. In fact I only gained like 1lb so I'm happy. If you think about it, it wasn't REALLY that bad was it? I mean all those calculators say you can eat a large amount of calories to maintain weight. Myself for example, can maintain at 1700 calories. On most days I woke up at 12, ate breakfast/lunch and than dinner with a little dessert. My breakfast/lunch was probably 200 calories and that left me 1500 calories for the rest of the day. Not exactly the most healthy way to eat but I I knew I wasn't going overboard by a lot which made me feel better.
I was on vacation, so even though I was eating out, I wasn't constantly surrounded by home-made goodies (my weakness)! I will admit, however, that I was feeling sorry for myself on New Years Eve and almost went crazy as a "pre-resolution get it all in before 1/1/08" issue, but then I realized that the "i'll start tomorrow" syndrome is what gets me in trouble, so I didn't give in!
Am I the Only One Who's Not Agonizing over The Holiday?
just a smidge annoyed cos now I gotta relose the same pounds! lol
This is especially considering the fact that I had a box of tostino's pizza rolls and 1/2 a back of fire cheetos. Haha.
