Losing Weight

Well, try hard to get the bulimic idea out of your head!  That will cause far more problems than it will solve! 

Now, what to do when you blow it?  Realize it, forgive yourself and get back on it.  Don't wait till Monday, or even tomorrow.  If you go with friends for lunch and find yourself ordering something more than you had planned, you can eat only part and take the rest home, or just leave it.  And then come supper time, pick yourself up and dust yourself off and get back on track. 

 

 

 

 

                    

   

                                        

Having been through bulimia, I can say that once you make the decision to start on that path, it will be a tremendous struggle to ever get off and the mental side effects will stay with you for the rest of your life. I have still not entirely recovered. I made that decision because I felt like it was my only choice at the time and the truth is that it's a worse choice than doing nothing, no matter what you're suffering from that makes you want to turn to this. Bulimia is about "do-overs". Thinking that if you make a mistake you can go back in time from it and erase the mistake rather than living with the feeling of "what have I just done to myself?" but what you gain from it in the long run is so much worse than the quick fix.

So you ate a bowl of pasta. SO WHAT? Maybe tomorrow you'll gain a fraction of a pound? If you make a mistake, and everyone does from time to time, so don't step on the scale tomorrow and make up for it by eating well. You're not supposed to eat like a pidgeon every day, you allow yourself some leeway to enjoy food and don't use it to imprison yourself. Diets are great and yeah necessary sometimes but you simply cannot stick to a strict diet every single day.

Forgive yourself and commit to making up for "mistake-eating". Everything you eat can be undone by working at it in the future. Nothing is permanent. Work on a law of averages: eat well most of the time and occasionally have a burger. You will be okay.