This bottle of wine has a lesson/story. More tomorrow.
So here's the story.
I went to my extended family Christmas last night and guess what?!?! I drank that entire bottle of wine (except for a tiny glass I gave my aunt to try), ate Cheesecake and too much cream based soup!
Did I go over my calories for the day? FOR SURE
Did I eat too many carbs? YOU BET
Did I feel bad about it? NO WAY
I hear people saying all the time "I had a cookie. I feel so bad about that." or "I was naughty today and ate (insert food here)"
Stop feeling bad about what you eat!!! If you spend most of your time eating a balanced, nutrient dense diet ONE cookie or soda is not going to make you gain weight!
I get it, you want to lose weight. But by having this thought process in your head that any time you eat anything that is not a fruit or vegetable is "bad" is not healthy. The people I have worked with who think this way have a really hard time being successful with weight loss. I think it's because they arealways starting over. I ate a cookie today so I'll start over tomorrow. Then they get frustrated because they keep having to start over.
A better plan is eating those nutirent dense foods 80% of the time and the other 20% is all those less nutrient dense foods. Does this mean I have a little notebook where I claculate percentages? No. But after last night I was more aware of what I ate today and made sure to get in my fruits and veggies and skip the wine after supper. So I am not depriving myself, because if I do I will inevitably binge.
Right now is the perfect time to talk about this because Christmas is this week. It wil be IMPOSSIBLE to be "perfect" So have a plan! If you know you have a party at night eat all your fruits and veggies before you go if you know those will be limited at the event. Then go and HAVE fun! If you eat too many pieces of bread or too many glasses of wine that's OK.
You can make it through this week and keep your goals in mind without spending the entire week feeling bad.
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