Aiming for "perfect days' is a sure path to failure for me! There are several chickies here who do manage to hit perfection on many days, but I'm sure not one of them. I don't even try anymore because in the past, making even one tiny bad decision (like eating a cracker with butter on it) meant that I was no longer perfect for the day, and thus I would give myself permission to eat free-for-all for the rest of the day. Bad, bad plan! It's much better (IMO!) to aim for PROGRESS. To aim for a series of good food choices. If there is an unwise choice here or there....well, people sometimes make unwise choices. But to let one unwise choice serve as a reason or excuse to eat badly for the rest of the day doesn't make much sense, in light of the goals we are striving to reach.
I think it might also be helpful to change the way that you're labeling things. Is it really "slipping"? Or is it making conscious decisions to eat off-plan? I say this not to beat you up (because you're already doing that to yourself!
), but to help you (and all of us) to realize that we must take responsibility for the food we put into our mouths. We really, really must. And when we label it with a benign word like "slipping", that indicates that it is something out of our control, like when we slip on a patch of ice or something. At least that's how it seems to me.
So: If you make an unwise choice, acknowledge it. Write it down, think about what led to the choice and what you can do to help prevent it next time. And then it's RIGHT BACK on plan. Not tomorrow, not Monday, but now. And go to the Goals forum and read some of the incredible stories of the ladies and gents who have made such great progress. If they can do it, so can we!