a moment of panic - and post-panic analysis
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:46 pm
The last day or two I've been having those "ack, maybe I should go back to weight watchers" kinds of feelings that come after a few weeks of lots of visitors, eating out, and 9 days vacation. At the gym, feeling bloated and thinking about how last year at this time I weighed about 8 lbs less than I do now, I was seriously planning to come home and log right onto ww and renew.
And then I had a good talk with myself. That I didn't gain the 8 lbs overnight. That they came back over the course of a very busy year and WHILE I was mostly doing ww or counting calories. I reminded myself that when I'm restricting myself and counting that I inevitably end up in a binge. I reminded myself how good and right I felt for the first couple of months of No S before the last few weeks of challenges came about. That I've established excellent no snacking habits. (Even on vacation and with visitors, I didn't snack.) I reminded myself of past experiences of the gain a little, panic, restrict, binge cycle and how not fun that is and I'd rather stay my current weight forever than go back to that. So I talked myself down.
I thought I'd post about it because I think this is a pretty typical pattern of thought for chronic dieters, and rational self-talk and assessment of "did acting this way work for me before?" is really all it took to save me the angst, not to mention the $15.95 a month of going back to WW.
Time for lunch!
And then I had a good talk with myself. That I didn't gain the 8 lbs overnight. That they came back over the course of a very busy year and WHILE I was mostly doing ww or counting calories. I reminded myself that when I'm restricting myself and counting that I inevitably end up in a binge. I reminded myself how good and right I felt for the first couple of months of No S before the last few weeks of challenges came about. That I've established excellent no snacking habits. (Even on vacation and with visitors, I didn't snack.) I reminded myself of past experiences of the gain a little, panic, restrict, binge cycle and how not fun that is and I'd rather stay my current weight forever than go back to that. So I talked myself down.
I thought I'd post about it because I think this is a pretty typical pattern of thought for chronic dieters, and rational self-talk and assessment of "did acting this way work for me before?" is really all it took to save me the angst, not to mention the $15.95 a month of going back to WW.
Time for lunch!