Sticking to your Plan!
As hard as I try to stick to my plans for nutrition, I end up screwing them up at some point, and then I let it go too far for too long. I don’t know if it is that I am bored with the routine eating or what, but it seems to happen just when I am at the lowest body fat%. I will either decide I am too small and need to add more mass and then end up eating some crap and justifying it telling myself that I am in a gaining phase or something…. or I will just plain screw it up by adding the wrong crap to it usually late at night.
Every time without fail I see great progress when I stick to my plan, so I know the plan is correct for my goals.
So, I know what does work, and I know what absolutely will kill the progress I have made. MY problem appears to be that I don’t have the drive, long term, to blow pass those achievements and make new better progress. And that sucks.
Well, this time I caught myself before things got too out of control, so I am starting at a point closer to where I was at best, so I hope to gain motivation from seeing additional progress.
The yo-yo thing just sucks!
October 9, 2009 at 8:15 am
Gee Todd, how’d you get into my brain? I could have written this. My overall diet is consistently good, but I don’t keep it going long enough 100% of the time to bring out the abs. Late night or weekend munching.
Keep charging old guy.
October 9, 2009 at 8:36 am
thanks just what I needed to remeber
October 9, 2009 at 10:27 am
For me it starts small, and each time I "cheat" on a non-cheat meal, it gets to be a little more.
Also, those scheduled cheat meals really cause me problems because I look at them as a chance to eat crap, when I should probably be looking at them as a time to eat more food that is still healthy. I think the cheat meals cause me to crave more cheat type foods and that is what really gets me, especially late at night - guess the resistance is low then.
October 9, 2009 at 10:39 am
Yeah, what you said. I need to re-orient my cheat meal thinking. More food, not crap food. I’m a crap food kinda guy on those cheats or diet slip-ups. At least my regular eating is good, keeping me from adding on lots of lbs.
Have a good weekend.
October 9, 2009 at 10:48 am
Yepper. I can on the yo-yo or the roller coaster real easy. Good nutrition is the toughest part of this lifestyle for me, but believe it or not, it’s getting a little easier. Maybe because its on my mind now more than ever. Keep up the fight Todd.