Disaster Party

You just got done eating, and you are contemplating the desert choices. Large milkshake or an apple? You might think to yourself it’s just tonight, and then proceed with the large milkshake. Feeling like a failure, you continue to eat the rest of the night because you’ve already strayed from your diet. Sound like a familiar situation?

It is for me. Last night I sat down to eat some turkey tacos with my brother around 6, and ended up indulging in some treats for desert. What started as a simple little desert soon turned into a 3 hour food party with my brother out of boredom. We ate popcorn, ice cream, chips, and cake in front of the television. The totally calorie intake during those few hours was probably upward of 3500. 3500 calories on top of my daily budget! That’s a pound of fat, and horrible for the body. Not to mention the food hangover afterward.

To think, this would happen to me on the day I created Complete Lifetime is unimaginable. But it did. So, it’s time to learn from this incident and move on. As John Keats would say, “Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.”

Lessons learned

• Accept a small treat every now and then. It’s okay and normal to slip up a little, and one bad snack wont stop you from losing weight.
• Don’t pig out on junk to fill a void! I can’t seem to learn this lesson. I tend to eat when I’m bored, and this can lead to diet disaster.

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