Bounce Back From Diet Slip-Ups

So let me guess?! You’ve been committed to changing your lifestyle for months now by eating better and exercising regularly. Suddenly, an opportunity to forget your diet for a few hours appears. In a moment of weakness, you indulge in a pint of your favorite ice cream (it was on sale!) or an evening of pizza and beer with your friends (but I don’t get to see them very often!). Don’t beat yourself up! You can get past this! In this article, we’ll take a look at how to recover from diet slip-ups: forgive yourself, get back on track, and don’t overcompensate.

Forgive yourself

It’s inevitable that all of us are going to meet temptation along the road of reaching our fitness goals. If you give in, it doesn’t mean that the goal is lost forever! The first step in recovering from a diet slip-up is to simply forgive yourself. Acknowledge the fact that what you consumed isn’t going to help you reach your goals, and then write it off. It’s not worth the energy to feel guilty or upset, or in the worst case, purge what you’ve eaten. This is a dangerous road to walk down and can lead to permanent health problems. You ate it, it’s in the past, acknowledge and move on!

Get back on track

The most important part of recovering from a diet slip-up is getting back on track. Just because you’ve eaten a big dinner and dessert doesn’t mean that the diet’s over! Many of us use this event to excuse ourselves from continuing on our fitness paths. “Well, that’s it, it’s over, I’ll start again next month.” No! Get right back up on the horse the next day; follow your fitness routine just like the slip-up never happened. This is important no matter where you are on the path to better fitness. If it happens soon after you’ve started your fitness routine, it’s more tempting to quit because you haven’t invested too much time into it.

Never overcompensate

“I had a huge dinner last night, so to make up for it, I’m just going to skip lunch tomorrow.” No! Once again, you need to get back on the right track and continue as if the slip-up never happened. It’s tempting to think that the calories you’ve consumed can be “evened out” by consuming fewer calories the next day, but unfortunately our bodies don’t work like that. The calories that you consumed last night have already been absorbed, and you need a minimum amount of calories everyday so your body will work at its best, so skipping a meal the next day won’t do you any favors.

Still Slipping up?? Email me at Laura@EZ8RunningCamp.com and I will email you a FREE custom Food Journal so that you can take the 1st steps towards getting on track.

2000 SIT UPS and ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT

(And It's NOT Fitting Any Looser)

When people ask me what I do for a living and they hear that I am a physical therapist, their eyes glaze over as they say with complete disinterest “OH, ok.” Because I am completely co-dependent I try to win them back by hitting them with “I am also a personal trainer!” NOW I’ve got their attention.

9 times out of 10 the next thing said is (with index finger and thumb pinching their love handles) "What exercise is the best to get rid of THESE??" I bet this kind of situation doesn’t happen to people who work in finance or in restaurants. Trainers get the luxury of hearing (and sometimes seeing) everyone’s "problem areas".

So they sit attentive and anxious, waiting to hear my magic answer. They want me to hand over the cure to their life long battle with the "muffin top.” Since this isn’t my first time answering this question, I brace myself before I give my stock (but tireless) respnose: “SORRY, BUT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SPOT REDUCING.”

Now, we are in an immediate fight. All of a sudden THEY have become the fitness expert. I get to hear about what their mom told them, what Joey Meatballs said at the gym once, how all of those infomercials for the ab lounge/ab roller/body by jake machines MUST be out there for a reason yada yada yada, RIGHT!? (Their tone of voice taunts me to agree with this “hear say” and misinformation.)

Look, unfortunately there IS no such thing as spot reducing. Sorry. Tricep exercises don’t make your arm fat go away, leg lifts don't make butt fat go away and 2000 crunches CERTAINLY wont make your stomach get smaller. It is scientifically impossible.

SO WHAT DOES???? If this is your 1st time reading this newsletter, you get a pass . But the rest of you BETTER know this answer, especially if you are in my boot camp. Do me a favor and write it down now so you will never forget. What gets rid of belly fat, is the combination of resistance training (weights), cardiovascular training (biking, running, elliptical) and a KILLER diet.

You lose body fat from the entire body, little by little, over time. You may see it leave from certain places 1st (like the face or the boobs), but this has everything to do with genetics and zippo to do with which particular exercise you choose to do that week.

Once again, there is no quick fix or magic exercise to lose inches in your problem areas. To make your stomach flat and tight you must be doing it all and giving it your all, every day. (Put that in your pipe Body-by-Jake.)

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