To eat, or NOT to eat is a question I have asked myself many times lately.
I must confess I have had a raging appetite lately. So bad that I decided I needed a little Appetite Control Intervention, so I broke out the AdvoCare ThermoPlus, which is a weight-loss enhancer that stimulates your metabolism AND curbs your appetite! I absolutely LOVE this stuff!
We've been out of town several times over the last few weeks, and that alone can absolutely sabotage one's clean eating efforts. I gained 6 pounds over one 4 day weekend! Imagine the food I must have consumed. My husband and I took our Youth Group to a Banquet in Kentucky, where there are no restaurants for 30 miles, all the food is country home cooking, and you just have to eat it! I must admit, it was delicious, but the pounds were not worth it. That's what I want to talk about in this post.
I am an experienced "on-the-go" eater, I've learned many good tricks along my journey and good food choices. Now sometimes I choose not to make the best choices because I want to treat myself or enjoy my mini-vacations. I always look at getaway's as a treat! However, there IS a balance in this! I know that I stay on track best when I plan ahead! I didn't do that in this case!
A few things I should have done were:
~Ask ahead of time what kind of food was to be served and planned my menu accordingly.
~Brought my own snacks or meals to cut out several HUNDRED calories and fat grams.
~Controlled the portion sizes of the food I did eat there, better, and not gorged out because it was so good!
You truly have to be mentally prepared for these types of things. I know this for a fact.
Well I realized that I'd better just do that in the next couple of weeks when we went out of town for another Banquet again. I did stick to a much healthier meal plan, but there were some really delicious foods prepared by our friends that I just couldn't resist! That would be so rude, wouldn't it? ;)
I did good, only gaining about a pound or two. (I forgot to mention that between the 2 trips, I did manage to lose about 4 pounds of the 6 that I gained!)
Well, here we are, been back from our last trip about 6 days and I have lost 4 lbs just by going to back to my clean eating habits and working out 2 times this week. Two times is not enough, but I was just too busy this week!
The main thing is this....if you splurge, binge, or make a total flop of your diet, just get right back on it. Quitting and giving up will never yield you the results you are wanting, but getting back up and moving forward will, even if it's slow, you're still moving FORWARD! Understand that you will slip up and indulge, and you SHOULD. You have to enjoy life, but you control those things, don't let them control YOU!
So my question to you is....To eat, or NOT to eat?
In the next post I'm going to talk about food ideas and meal planning, and some of my favorite recipes and tips, etc. Stay posted!
