Serena A
Can't think of a title
This is going to sound really daft but I've thought of something that might help to keep me on the straight and narrow.
Imagine yourself on your weigh in day. You've stuck to your CD plan all week, you've glugged all the water and you're feeling confident. You're about to step onto the scales. Suddenly, your CDC stops you and says: "Hang on a minute - I'm about to give you a choice. I know that you're about to step onto the scales and see your usual 3lb loss. However, if you prefer, I can give you a fab new memory implant of you eating your favourite cheat food this week - the only catch is you'll have to swap it for your 3lb loss and stay the same this week. So how about it?"
I doubt many of us would choose the food memory over the 3lb, and yet this is all that the off-plan food is when we go for our weigh in - it's just another memory to join the many others that we have. Is it really worth it?
Can you tell I've watched Total Recall recently?!
I know of course that much of this 3lb "gain" would probably correct itself the following week but it is soooo demotivating isn't it when the scales don't move. Especially when we secretly have that expectation that unless we're unlucky we'll probably get away with our blip (and yet get in a huff when we lose 1/4lb less than usual when we've been "really good" all week ).
Sorry for the ramblings...must be lack of food
Imagine yourself on your weigh in day. You've stuck to your CD plan all week, you've glugged all the water and you're feeling confident. You're about to step onto the scales. Suddenly, your CDC stops you and says: "Hang on a minute - I'm about to give you a choice. I know that you're about to step onto the scales and see your usual 3lb loss. However, if you prefer, I can give you a fab new memory implant of you eating your favourite cheat food this week - the only catch is you'll have to swap it for your 3lb loss and stay the same this week. So how about it?"
I doubt many of us would choose the food memory over the 3lb, and yet this is all that the off-plan food is when we go for our weigh in - it's just another memory to join the many others that we have. Is it really worth it?
Can you tell I've watched Total Recall recently?!
I know of course that much of this 3lb "gain" would probably correct itself the following week but it is soooo demotivating isn't it when the scales don't move. Especially when we secretly have that expectation that unless we're unlucky we'll probably get away with our blip (and yet get in a huff when we lose 1/4lb less than usual when we've been "really good" all week ).
Sorry for the ramblings...must be lack of food