 Don't let slip-ups destroy your plan
Sometimes learning to live healthier requires gaining a new perspective on things. We all have days that just don't start out right. You oversleep, are late to a meeting and catch glares from your boss. When you walk out of the meeting, there sits a box of donuts, just calling out comfort in that moment of stress - and you answer the call.
Two or three donuts later, you've decided: "Oh the heck with it, the day is ruined; I might as well just eat whatever I want." So you go out to lunch and have a big burger and fries. With all that heavy food, and the resultant sugar crash, you are too tired to stop at the gym after work so you head for home. After dinner, you decide you might as well top the day off with a bowl of ice cream. As you climb into bed, you promise yourself that tomorrow will be better.
But how will it be better if you don't consider how today might have gone better in the first place? If you don't recognize where it went wrong, how can you stop it next time?
Where did it go wrong? It wasn't the alarm clock, or even the donuts. It was at the "Oh the heck with it" point that the day took a wrong turn. You are going to slip up sometimes; your weight loss plan has room for a few slip-ups. It's that lack of forgiveness for slipping up that derails you.
Next time, talk to yourself as you would a friend. Tell yourself that you made a mistake, but it's not the end of the world and as of this moment you are back on track. Make it a habit and even the slip-ups might get smaller and less frequent.
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