S Day Thoughts
Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2017 6:59 pm
I am sure this has been written before by someone. It may even be in in the book. Folks have posted good S Day thoughts recently and I want to add mine.
We all know that the "sometimes" needs to be in our S Days. We also know that we can't have a free for all and expect our bodies to ignore it since it was an S Day. But how about starting with the thought each weekend that there are 104 S Days in the year even before you add in the holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's, Easter, July 4) and all the family and friends birthdays and anniversaries. Wow! That's a lot of S Days! Studies also show that Americans gain most of their weight over the holidays and never get it off. I think someone just posted an article where most of the calories Americans consume is over the weekend and if the week is not made up of light meals, weight gain occurs.
So for me I am with those who have decided that S Days should be normal meals sometimes ending in a dessert or second helpings, and maybe a little more dense than weekday meals. But they are not a license to binge or mindlessly graze all day.
Anyway, it just helped me this weekend to think of all the opportunities I will have to enjoy all sorts of foods for over 100 days a year. This is not a diet. I don't have to cram it all in before I start back on a diet on Monday. There will be another opportunity for a piece of pie for goodness sake!
We all know that the "sometimes" needs to be in our S Days. We also know that we can't have a free for all and expect our bodies to ignore it since it was an S Day. But how about starting with the thought each weekend that there are 104 S Days in the year even before you add in the holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, Valentine's, Easter, July 4) and all the family and friends birthdays and anniversaries. Wow! That's a lot of S Days! Studies also show that Americans gain most of their weight over the holidays and never get it off. I think someone just posted an article where most of the calories Americans consume is over the weekend and if the week is not made up of light meals, weight gain occurs.
So for me I am with those who have decided that S Days should be normal meals sometimes ending in a dessert or second helpings, and maybe a little more dense than weekday meals. But they are not a license to binge or mindlessly graze all day.
Anyway, it just helped me this weekend to think of all the opportunities I will have to enjoy all sorts of foods for over 100 days a year. This is not a diet. I don't have to cram it all in before I start back on a diet on Monday. There will be another opportunity for a piece of pie for goodness sake!