.....on your programmes of course
Personally here are the benefits for me to cheating now and again
1. Keeps me sane
2. A bit of what you fancy now and again never hurt anyone
3. Sometimes you just need a rest, mentally if for nothing else
Here’s my approach to cheating on your diet or workout programme. Sometimes life gets in the way and that can’t be helped, you’re genuinely stuck without access to clean food, some tit eats your lunch from the fridge at work (true story), your injured and can’t workout etc... Why waste time beating yourself up about it and feeling guilty. It’s one day, one meal, get over it, move on and don’t waste precious life feeling shit about it.
When it comes to deliberate cheating here’s my approach. I call it conscious cheating, closely linked to conscious eating (look it up). Sounds lame but bear with me. Instead of thinking life is the thing that is happening to you; approach all elements of life, including your diet, exercise and therefore your physique with the acceptance that it is all in your hands. Your appearance, fitness and to some extent confidence and self esteem are as a result of the choices you make every single day.
When I cheat, have that Greggs Sausage roll for lunch or take a biscuit from the tin at work I do it putting that food in my mouth KNOWING that my choice will not help me reach my goal. I consciously accept that I am making a decision that is not going to support what goals and boundaries I have set for myself.
Uh, sounds like a lot of effort for a biscuit? Well, how much energy do you expend wishing you were that magical ½ a stone lighter? Or your tummy was flatter? Or your biceps bigger?
This approach makes me think about my actions and also the consequences of my actions. I’m not saying turn into a crazing nutter and over analyse all the decisions you make but if you know something is bad for you, accept the consequences of that decision to do it anyway. Ignorance is not an excuse when it comes to fitness; neither is finding an excuse for your cheat. Just have the dam thing if it’s that important to you but consciously accept what results that choice will bring.
For example: “It’s a birthday party, I’ve got to have cake at a birthday party!” You walk away from this situation thinking well it was ok and won’t affect me because I had a good excuse. WRONG! Or even worse you’ll spend the rest of the day feeling guilty for having a piece of cake. Wasting a day of your life feeling shit for a few moments of eating.
It will affect your progress, and if you choose to accept that it’s fine, but don’t be surprised when the scales give you a disappointing reading, or you don’t reach your target inch loss. And don’t have the cheek to be upset about it either.
Your body is a pretty simple being. It doesn’t care who’s birthday it was or what the occasion for the cheating was. All it knows is “I have no use for all this refined sugar so I’m going to store it”.
It works for me, personnally I ate birthday cake this Sunday much to the surprise of the other attendees. You eat that??? Yes I do, I eat very well the rest of my meals so I can eat a slice of cake and not beat myself up over it. I may not be the leanest I could be, because I choose to cheat. But I am the most sane, in control and accepting of the choices I make on a daily basis.
Think about it....
Lots of hippy love
x
PS - My side note to all this is the word CONSCIOUS. I could literally kick people who play the ignorance card and do not know what it is they are putting in their mouths. It’s ridiculous. So if you have no idea what carb, protein, fat or most importantly sugar content of the foods you eat you need to have a word with yourself. People, IMO, hide behind the EXCUSE it would be obsessive to know the content of your food. I strongly disagree - its education! You wouldn't put the wrong type of fuel in your car. You wouldn't drink an unknown liquid someone handed you so why do you eat something a supermarket puts a nice label on without knowing what it is you are consuming. You only get one body so look after it. Rant......
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