I was talking with a friend of mine who’s also giving this whole flexible dieting thing a “go” and she was telling me how she was feeling a bit discouraged lately.
“This weekend was hard for me and I want to get back at it. I need to lose this dang weight. I’m so tired of being fat.”
I think we can all relate to this statement in some way or another. At some point, we’ve all felt like our nutrition wasn’t top notch, or our food choices were poor. How many times have we said to ourselves before, “I REALLY shouldn’t have eaten that…” Or “Ugh, I ate WAY too much…” Or even more recently, how many times have we been down on ourselves about our macros? “I SO did NOT hit my macros today!!”
It’s important to remember that bad days happen. While they can seem like they set us back by a mile or more, they happen. BUT at the same time, here’s another way to think about the whole concept of a new diet:
One day of good eating isn’t good enough to get you the results you want, right? Well the same goes for bad days- one bad day of eating isn’t good enough to set you back. Whether you are eating right or eating poorly, your outcome is always going to be the result of time and consistency. Do you spend more time eating well? Or do you spend more time eating poorly?
On weekends, I tend to be looser with my macros sometimes and what keeps me feeling guilt-free is the fact that one or two messed up days aren’t going to set me back. On that same note however, one day of eating my macros down to the last gram won’t make me meet my goals either. Meeting my goals takes TIME and CONSISTENCY.
Time and consistency are the 2 things to keep in mind as you continue to follow a flexible diet. As long as you have these 2 things in mind, you can rest assured that you are at least always heading in the right direction.
TIME AND CONSISTENCY!!
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