How to Stop a Bad Morning from Being a Bad Day

If any of you are like me, I have always lived by the motto “ I messed up my diet, might as well go hard”. What I mean is that if I mess up my diet in the morning, I throw the entire day away eating as much sugary, fatty, greasy as I can. I have been told time and time again that this is the worst possible thinking ever. And you know what? It is. Why would you throw away a whole day, add on all those calories just because you had a bad morning? Because what you want, is to eat bad food. You want an excuse. At least, that is the case for me.

A common excuse I make for myself is breakfast.  If I forget to bring it or to be honest just point blank don’t bring it, I have an excuse. When I get to work and grab my morning coffee, I can grab a doughnut too. If not I can get a Nutella to go, or just come into my office and eat some cookies or cake; we usually have at least one of those options.  And I mean in my mind as soon as I've taken that bite of doughnut, or cookie, or dip of Nutella; the day is lost. I will then go on to eat as bad as possible. Why? Well in my head I tell myself that I will start fresh tomorrow and thus be on the right track.

In some perfect and magical world that would be the case. I’d wake up the next day and since I ate my healthy breakfast of oatmeal or wheat toast with a hard boiled egg, then I would be unstoppable. I would eat healthy from that point on and never falter. I really wished I lived in that world, but I don’t. none of us do.  Just because you have a bad morning you can’t just throw the day away. Actually its not even a case of throwing the day away, it’s making the day worse, adding on more calories and fat you don’t need. And what is to say that you cave and have a “bad” lunch like a friend buffalo chicken sandwich with lots of greasy salty fries. By my grand reasoning  you would then go on to eat as much as you could for the rest of the day since this magically promise of tomorrow looms in the distance.

It’s insane. If I tell myself everyday that once I have that bad breakfast, I can binge all day and start fresh tomorrow…well what happens when I then have a doughnut when I get into work? Then of course I can eat crap all day and wait for tomorrow. See where I’m going with this? Nothing will ever change cause I’m not actually changing anything.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results,” Albert Einstein.

And right he was.  Well I decided upon starting this journey that I really would try to get out of my old patterns of self destruction when it comes to eating. Little did I know that day 1  would give me that exact opportunity. I got to work only to discover that I had left my healthy breakfast at home, safely in the fridge. Panic set in and for moment I thought, " oh well I'll have to start tomorrow". But I stopped( literally I was walking) and realized exactly what I have been talking about above. You either decide you are going to stick with something or you're not. No time of day will change that. And no bump in the road should either. So today I turned down the temptress that is a doughnut, and thus was more sure of myself in other healthy decisions through out my day. 

Let's see how I do when I in fact eat a doughnut...will i keep moving...or will I use that doughnut to float down the lazy river of sugar and fat?

Talk to you soon,

Cassie

Hey There

 

 

My name is Cassie and this is my first attempt at blogging. As you can probably tell from the title of this blog, it’s about putting an end to crash dieting like extreme calorie cutting, over exercising, all liquid diets, diet pills, etc. And an attempt to make healthy food decisions day by day while trying to make regular exercise part of your life. Now this is not just going to be me rambling on about how you all should be doing this, this, and the other thing. This blog is a journey, my journey to be exact.

 

Since I was 17 I have gained and lost the same 60-90lbs three time; I have gained the weight three times and lost it twice. Each time I lost I would get to a weight where I didn’t completely hate the way I looked, to slowly but surely creep back up to a point where I can’t stand to look at myself. I would lose the weight with extreme calorie cutting and counting to the point where it was definitely obsessive. Most of the time I was too tired to work out, most likely from the lack of calories. Gaining the weight back was always so easy: you feel depressed about your weight, you eat about it, more depression, eat about it- and on and on. Well at least that was the case for me. I have been trapped in this cycle for almost 10 years. And honestly, enough is enough.

 

So, I think all these diets and self abuse in the name of being skinny have got to stop. I’m attempting something new. I am going to try not to lose weight to get skinny but to change my lifestyle to get healthy and into the shape I want to live a better quality of life. I hypostasize that it will come down to making several better choices in what I eat each day and forcing myself to get active till I actually start to enjoy it. I also think that  is going to be a lot of emotions I am going to have to face and deal with. There’s going to be a lot of compulsion( and thus binge eating) that I will have to gain control over.

 

This is not going to be a censored blog in any way. When I have a great day, eating well and getting exercise in, I’ll write about it. When I have an awful day where I never get off my butt and eat 4000 calories, I’ll write about it. I’m hoping that through documenting my journey as honestly as I can that maybe someone might read this and think “ Oh that’s just like me, maybe I can do it too” .

 

I’ll try to keep it interesting, try out new work out routines and venture into the world of healthy food I haven’t tried before. If I come across any books, advice, or even good quotes( I’m all for motivational ones) I’ll let you guys know. Also expect regular rants, essays, and complete fiction based on anything I find that relates to this journey while I'm on it.

 

Tomorrow starts the first day of regular posting my journey to a healthy life style. Even if I don’t succeed, at least there won’t be any more yo-yos.

 

Till tomorrow

 

Cassie