April 24
Strategy: If there is no reason not to, have a skinny day.
Why: Because I can and I never know when I will need extra calories. My life isn’t even as food intensive as lots of my clients and still overeating opportunities come up unexpectedly all the time. This way I am always ready for a rainy day, so to speak, and I don’t fall victim to that “poor me, everybody else is enjoying this and I don’t get to have it” thing. I often have to remind myself that I am the one who chooses what I want to weigh and how much exercise I am willing to do (sort of like what income I am willing to live on). I can eat anything I want as long as I am willing to pay for it or wear it. My choice.
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Funny, the thing about what one is willing to “pay”. A study was done where instead of putting a calorie count on the menu, the amount of time that it would take to burn the item off with brisk walking was listed instead. Evidently, when we see how long we will have to work to burn those calories, we eat less. Go figure.
Like everything else in life, it is only when the consequence clearly outweighs the please that it seems worth it to me to pass up that initial “pleasure”. The same thinking holds true with calories, I think. People for the most part don’t know what the budget is for the weight they way to be in the first place, so the impact of what percentage of that budget they are using up is lost on them. Plus, most don’t get it that to manage their weight they would have to ultimately reconcile that surplus and balance the budget (just like money). “Dieting” is just paying back in one big chunk all the accumulated, unreconciled debt. If they would learn to pay as they go, they wouldn’t be wearing all those unreconciled debts in the form of unwanted pounds.
Thanks Amanda! Yes, just got it right now! So fun! Maddy was so excited when I oenepd it at the grocery store and there she was! How fun for her. You guys did a great job! Thanks for including my girls. So fun for them!