Bad Days

I want to know who can relate to this.....

What is it about eating something bad or skipping a workout that makes our minds think that we might as well throw away the whole day and start fresh tomorrow.

Example: You wake up to a nice big breakfast of pancakes, bacon, eggs (not just the whites!!) and you indulge. It was tasty, but you now feel so slow and bloated that all you want to do is sleep on the couch and lay around and do nothing. Until you are hungry again. At which time you figure that you have already been "BAD" today, so fixing a bowl of icecream for a snack is okay. You'll just start fresh again tomorrow. And then on the days that you skip a workout unintentionally (not a scheduled rest day) you figure that you are free to eat a burger. Or a milk shake. Or the KFC Doubledown.

Well, this happens to us, especially women, A LOT! I think that we try to make excuses for ourselves or find any way to give us permission to do something that we KNOW we are not supposed to do. We obviously don't REALLY buy into the logic of this thought process. We are intelligent people. There is no way that we believe in our minds that it is "okay" for us to eat MORE junkfood because we already ate junkfood today. C'mon! Let's stop fooling ourselves.

So, when you do fall off the wagon, pick yourself back up. Take a walk, and remember how hard you are working to get yourself in shape. Isolate those incidents and leave them behind, where they belong. Don't beat yourself up over it and don't use it as an excuse to ruin your entire day.

As for the picture that accompanies today's post, I really have no idea. I googled "bad food vs. good food" and this is what that search yielded. Don't be afraid of the banana.....

Alexia.