Getting Back on Track as Easy as 1...2...3... by Pearl
Apr 21, 2014 11:16:49 GMT -5
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Post by steffanie3 on Apr 21, 2014 11:16:49 GMT -5
Getting Back on Track is as Easy as 1... 2... 3...
Let's get it all out in the open... some of us went right off plan yesterday. I'm raising my hand. I knew I would, though. I always eat some off plan foods on Thanksgiving and Christmas. If you chose to stick with luscious S foods yesterday, I am thrilled for you and fiercely proud of you. You determined what your body and mind needed - you stayed the course and I imagine you didn't even feel a little bit deprived.
The rest of us are going to get back on track and if you're not sure how to do that, I want to guide you through it in this post. I'm going to give you my three steps back to safety.
1 - First things first - shake off any guilt or shame. Maybe in other years you fudged whatever stringent diet you were doing, ate off plan for Thanksgiving and never got back on due to self loathing. That AIN'T going to happen this time! Trim Healthy Mama is a life time approach, eating off plan treats to celebrate family and life blessings is a mere blip on the radar of your THM journey.
As I mentioned in one of our sisterly arguments in the book - I will not deny myself anything on these two feasting days. I ate sugar sweetened Pecan Pie yesterday and a few other foods I'm not even going to tell Serene about. (I usually spend Thanksgivings with Serene, but this year we are in Michigan staying with my husband's family). Sure, I got a bit of a belly ache last night (from overindulging) and went to bed with some sugar cravings stirred up, but it was one day. I can happily jump back into my eating norm because my norm is delicious, satisfying and makes me feel great. I know the way I ate yesterday is not the way I will eat for the rest of my life and I'm sure not going to punish myself for it.
2 - Don't Purge! This season is notorious for creating a vicious cycle that I call "Indulge and Purge." Yes, you need to come back to the THM green pastures, but you don't need to eat nasty, dry, rabbit food meals to get yourself back on track. I hear this question a lot, "Help, I ate terribly... should I do all Fuel Pulls for a few days?"
"No!"
Deep S meals like fried eggs in generous amounts of butter are the best ones for getting back on track and all those excess sugars out of your cells. Or get some of that leftover Turkey, put it on a huge plate of salad and use heaps of Extra Virgin Olive Oil in your dressing. Eating too low calorie and denying yourself of fats to try to combat your splurge will only make holiday cravings worse. Remember that fats satisfy. Sure, you can still have your usual amounts of Fuel Pull snacks or enjoy a Fat Stripping Frappa as a meal now and then, but don't overdo these low calorie items, especially around this holiday season. I think that a couple of deep S meals in a row are the best way to do a THM reset (from my own experience.
3 - Enough is enough! This cannot be a whole season of cheating. The freedom THM offers is one thing, but seriously harming your body is another. Don't give yourself license to spike your blood sugar with off plan foods everyday from now until January 1st. You'll wake up on the first day of the New Year feeling desperate and more apt to make extreme food choices, which will only create another vicious cycle.
But... I know some of you may have trouble jumping right back on the THM wagon after a big splurge meal off. Maybe you still have relatives staying in your home or like me, you are still at somebody else's home and do not have access to the safety of your own THM kitchen. In a perfect world, you'd jump right back to your next slimming THM meal which is always only three hours away, but the reality is... some off plan foods may have to continue for the next day or two. Okay, don't fret - say the word "blip" to yourself one more time.
I got up this morning and had my fried eggs in butter and a cup of coffee with cream and felt a whole lot better. But I knew that I would be having another meal off plan today. My husband's mother wanted to bless her son with a lunch of fried potatoes, corn bread and beans - the comfort foods he was raised on. I enjoyed that lunch with the family a while ago, but tonight I'm going to enjoy another deep S meal already planned. You see, I'm baby stepping my way back, doing the best I can. I'll be back to my kitchen soon. Another day or two of non THM meals is not going to derail me forever. But if this went on for another week or two weeks... then I'd need Serene to come shake me up and give me one of her Sergeant lectures. Yes, I'd welcome it.
So, what if three or four days pass, you still have sugar laden pumpkin pie in your house and cookies galore. They are doing you in - you feel derailed - you can't fight them. Take action - they go in the trash or they go to a shelter, they do not stay in your house! You don't want to waste? It is a greater waste of health to continue to eat them and ill health is much more expensive than throwing away a box or two or cookies. You have plenty of incredible THM treats to replace them with.
So I'm right here with you... walking back to plan. All of our THM journeys are unique. Mine includes liberties to eat things now and then that are normally not part of my food world. Your own journey may not and that is perfectly fine. I know Serene was completely happy yesterday not eating an ounce of sugar. But that's the beauty of this plan - it embraces all approaches to food and all styles of women. Hope this encourages you today.
~copied from facebook
Let's get it all out in the open... some of us went right off plan yesterday. I'm raising my hand. I knew I would, though. I always eat some off plan foods on Thanksgiving and Christmas. If you chose to stick with luscious S foods yesterday, I am thrilled for you and fiercely proud of you. You determined what your body and mind needed - you stayed the course and I imagine you didn't even feel a little bit deprived.
The rest of us are going to get back on track and if you're not sure how to do that, I want to guide you through it in this post. I'm going to give you my three steps back to safety.
1 - First things first - shake off any guilt or shame. Maybe in other years you fudged whatever stringent diet you were doing, ate off plan for Thanksgiving and never got back on due to self loathing. That AIN'T going to happen this time! Trim Healthy Mama is a life time approach, eating off plan treats to celebrate family and life blessings is a mere blip on the radar of your THM journey.
As I mentioned in one of our sisterly arguments in the book - I will not deny myself anything on these two feasting days. I ate sugar sweetened Pecan Pie yesterday and a few other foods I'm not even going to tell Serene about. (I usually spend Thanksgivings with Serene, but this year we are in Michigan staying with my husband's family). Sure, I got a bit of a belly ache last night (from overindulging) and went to bed with some sugar cravings stirred up, but it was one day. I can happily jump back into my eating norm because my norm is delicious, satisfying and makes me feel great. I know the way I ate yesterday is not the way I will eat for the rest of my life and I'm sure not going to punish myself for it.
2 - Don't Purge! This season is notorious for creating a vicious cycle that I call "Indulge and Purge." Yes, you need to come back to the THM green pastures, but you don't need to eat nasty, dry, rabbit food meals to get yourself back on track. I hear this question a lot, "Help, I ate terribly... should I do all Fuel Pulls for a few days?"
"No!"
Deep S meals like fried eggs in generous amounts of butter are the best ones for getting back on track and all those excess sugars out of your cells. Or get some of that leftover Turkey, put it on a huge plate of salad and use heaps of Extra Virgin Olive Oil in your dressing. Eating too low calorie and denying yourself of fats to try to combat your splurge will only make holiday cravings worse. Remember that fats satisfy. Sure, you can still have your usual amounts of Fuel Pull snacks or enjoy a Fat Stripping Frappa as a meal now and then, but don't overdo these low calorie items, especially around this holiday season. I think that a couple of deep S meals in a row are the best way to do a THM reset (from my own experience.
3 - Enough is enough! This cannot be a whole season of cheating. The freedom THM offers is one thing, but seriously harming your body is another. Don't give yourself license to spike your blood sugar with off plan foods everyday from now until January 1st. You'll wake up on the first day of the New Year feeling desperate and more apt to make extreme food choices, which will only create another vicious cycle.
But... I know some of you may have trouble jumping right back on the THM wagon after a big splurge meal off. Maybe you still have relatives staying in your home or like me, you are still at somebody else's home and do not have access to the safety of your own THM kitchen. In a perfect world, you'd jump right back to your next slimming THM meal which is always only three hours away, but the reality is... some off plan foods may have to continue for the next day or two. Okay, don't fret - say the word "blip" to yourself one more time.
I got up this morning and had my fried eggs in butter and a cup of coffee with cream and felt a whole lot better. But I knew that I would be having another meal off plan today. My husband's mother wanted to bless her son with a lunch of fried potatoes, corn bread and beans - the comfort foods he was raised on. I enjoyed that lunch with the family a while ago, but tonight I'm going to enjoy another deep S meal already planned. You see, I'm baby stepping my way back, doing the best I can. I'll be back to my kitchen soon. Another day or two of non THM meals is not going to derail me forever. But if this went on for another week or two weeks... then I'd need Serene to come shake me up and give me one of her Sergeant lectures. Yes, I'd welcome it.
So, what if three or four days pass, you still have sugar laden pumpkin pie in your house and cookies galore. They are doing you in - you feel derailed - you can't fight them. Take action - they go in the trash or they go to a shelter, they do not stay in your house! You don't want to waste? It is a greater waste of health to continue to eat them and ill health is much more expensive than throwing away a box or two or cookies. You have plenty of incredible THM treats to replace them with.
So I'm right here with you... walking back to plan. All of our THM journeys are unique. Mine includes liberties to eat things now and then that are normally not part of my food world. Your own journey may not and that is perfectly fine. I know Serene was completely happy yesterday not eating an ounce of sugar. But that's the beauty of this plan - it embraces all approaches to food and all styles of women. Hope this encourages you today.
~copied from facebook