Marvelous Monday!
Good morning everyone! Hope everyone is ready for this new week. Speaking of Mondays, I was just thinking how maddening it is that I have lapsed back into the "I'll start on Monday" way of thinking. Why? What's so special about Mondays? The beginning of the week? Do the eating "sins" of the past weekend get erased? Is it the clean slate mentality? What if I fall off the wagon on Tuesday? Its a long way to next Monday and I could do a lot of damage in six days! I remember really be rid of this when I was successful. That I forgave myself for an eating indiscretion and just started with a clean slate on the next meal.
What about everyone else? Do you guys do the Monday Morning promises or is letting that go one of the keys to being successful?
Hope everyone is doing well!
What about everyone else? Do you guys do the Monday Morning promises or is letting that go one of the keys to being successful?
Hope everyone is doing well!
* Take 1 DS, add a little p90x and stir :)5' 3" HW 293/SW 253/Goal 130/CW 128
Hey tassia! Thank God it's Monday, right???? Hey, I sure have been there in that Monday frame of mind where I would eat like there's no tomorrow and somehow think that Monday I was going to morph into some other person with more self control!
I think I am over that manana thing, I rather think I am on the one day at a time plan: how well can I do this day to move and eat things that my body needs?
...then again I tend toward the "weekend attitude" where I sort of give myself so much rope that I often do enough damge to hang myself.
What throws me off is that I have lost weight many times allowing for more food on the weekend. It is true that I am fine with being more structured with food on workdays, which happen to be weekdays.
Overall, I very much get that I just don't need very much food anymore no matter what day of the week it is! Good post!
I think I am over that manana thing, I rather think I am on the one day at a time plan: how well can I do this day to move and eat things that my body needs?
...then again I tend toward the "weekend attitude" where I sort of give myself so much rope that I often do enough damge to hang myself.
What throws me off is that I have lost weight many times allowing for more food on the weekend. It is true that I am fine with being more structured with food on workdays, which happen to be weekdays.
Overall, I very much get that I just don't need very much food anymore no matter what day of the week it is! Good post!
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." ~Mark Twain
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on 6/8/09 1:29 am - West Central FL☼RIDA , FL
on 6/8/09 1:29 am - West Central FL☼RIDA , FL
Interesting topic.........
My dad would always say he would restart his diet on Monday......I guess that is where I learned it.
I spent years doing that..... I'd tell myself I'll have one last "fling" with food over the weekend and then get serious on Monday.. Somehow it never stuck
When I did finally get serious 18 months ago it was on a Weds (Nov 7, 2007). And this time it worked and has stuck!
I don't think starting on Weds is the key, I think my mindset was in the right place to do it and do it right.
My dad would always say he would restart his diet on Monday......I guess that is where I learned it.
I spent years doing that..... I'd tell myself I'll have one last "fling" with food over the weekend and then get serious on Monday.. Somehow it never stuck
When I did finally get serious 18 months ago it was on a Weds (Nov 7, 2007). And this time it worked and has stuck!
I don't think starting on Weds is the key, I think my mindset was in the right place to do it and do it right.
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on 6/8/09 3:39 am - UK
on 6/8/09 3:39 am - UK
On June 8, 2009 at 8:29 AM Pacific Time, moosie1234 wrote:
Interesting topic.........My dad would always say he would restart his diet on Monday......I guess that is where I learned it.
I spent years doing that..... I'd tell myself I'll have one last "fling" with food over the weekend and then get serious on Monday.. Somehow it never stuck
When I did finally get serious 18 months ago it was on a Weds (Nov 7, 2007). And this time it worked and has stuck!
I don't think starting on Weds is the key, I think my mindset was in the right place to do it and do it right.
I used to eat constantly ALL the time and I was forever "starting over". I had a thousand "last meals"! LOL. And curiously enough, alot of my starting over plans were supposed to start on Monday!! LOL. Now if I mess up I don't wait, I start again right then. I forgive myself and get back on track.
Non-op----288/196/175(Hw/Cw/Gw)
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on 6/8/09 10:40 am
on 6/8/09 10:40 am
OMG, I thought DH and I were the only ones who started a diet on Monday - only to fall off the wagon usually by lunch Monday. I think Gaz is right, when your serious you start right away and don't wait for Monday.DH always felt that on the weekend we could stock up on whatever we needed for the diet and in the meantime we could eat all the good stuff that was in the house already - no wonder we got so fat. This time we started in the middle of the week with no major tumbles, just the occasional normal slip
I also don't subscribe to that theory that if you fall off the wagon you can just stay off until the next day or next Monday or whatever. That's what you do when you aren't ready. When I'm serious and doing well I do forgive myself and I actually allow myself to enjoy my treat before I go back to healthy eating, I think this is a healthier approach and is working for me.
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