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Cataclysmic slide over the last few days. Too much food, way too many carbs, the works. Worst slide in a long, long time. I can tell that I gained five or six pounds back, but I'm avoiding the scale for now. First step, just get back to normal, start recording everything I eat, and put this in the past. Once I'm back on track, I'll step onto the scale again.
Do you have a gateway pitfall stimulus? For a lot of people, it's stress or pain. For me, it's the opposite. I fall victim to the "Oh, what the hell?" mentality, when it's nice and sunny out and someone suggests grabbing a beer on a rooftop, that sort of thing. Trouble is that even a couple of beers -- and it almost always starts with beer for me -- triggers a cascade of bad eating. I've heard people on hear talk about "breaking abstinence," and I think that's what gets me.
Another thing gets me -- and you, too? -- is when I'm surrounded by tempting stuff, keep saying "no," and then get home, feeling good -- then "reward" myself by having something unhealthy. Yesterday, my wife and I spontaneously hit a bar in the afternoon. She's fit and can get away with eating almost anything. I had a couple of beers but still waved off the wings she ordered, then said no to the gelato she had later, when we walked around town. Finally, I said no to the box of Nerds she had opened in the car. After all this, we stopped at the grocery store. While unpacking everything, my brain said, "You've been good. Go ahead, and have some of that gelato."
Anyone else suffer from traitor brain?
Diet Calendar Entries for 27 July 2015:
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1863 kcal
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Fat: 127.03g | Prot: 98.01g | Carb: 52.94g.
Breakfast: Fried Egg, Jones Dairy Farm Fully Cooked Sausage Patties. Lunch: Kirkland Signature Oven Browned Turkey Breast, Mixed Salad Greens, Briannas Home Style Real French Vinaigrette, Kirkland Signature Crumbled Bacon. Dinner: Corona Corona Light, Hellmann's Cholesterol Free Canola Mayonnaise, Tomatoes, Barbecued Beef Shortribs with Sauce (Lean and Fat Eaten), Stir Fried Vegetables. Snacks/Other: Peach, Peach. more...
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2253 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (exercise) - 3.5/mph - 45 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 15 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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lol...Traitor Brain...that is too funny. I struggle with that mostly on the weekends with the family is over and they want to bbq and hangout.
27 Jul 15 by member: babygurl1213
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I'm so rebellious, I do that all the time. I've been better lately, but every now and then it comes back to bite me in the butt. Mine was Chinese Food on Friday. "You've been good for months now. One time won't hurt." Yeah well, it hurt. LOL!
27 Jul 15 by member: Sdbai3
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Drinking is my way to get into "what the hell" mode. Also, I have learned that there are certain things that I just don't have around the house; I will eat them.
27 Jul 15 by member: PilarDLS
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I am not sure if my traitor brain ever takes a day off. Beer and wine are definitely ways to make its voice more seductive. Then again, sometimes it just plants the idea of doughnuts in my head (or wait, that might be my traitorous children! :) ). I too have struggled with that idea of getting a reward for good behavior. It is too bad we don't get for credit for all of those things not eaten...
27 Jul 15 by member: izzypup68
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I feel that if I were to fall for the "What the hell? You've been good, go for it" voice in my head, I don't know if/when I'll stop. I've used food as a reward for a long time. That mentality and action has brought me to a place where I'd rather not be (present company excluded, know what I mean?). It has put me in a position to work daily at undoing that vicious cycle that has been an ever present companion my entire life.
I love me my whiskies and bourbons. My inner self restraint is easily silenced with the smallest amount of high proof libations. I therefore don't keep any of it around. From the moment I wake up to the time I finally go to bed, the decisions I make need to align with my goals to drop the weight.
27 Jul 15 by member: Frosty Heimdall
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Thanks, everybody. You guys are great. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one struggling against traitor brain and traitor family (ha ha), and everything you're saying here makes sense.
Babygurl1213, my slides almost always starts with hanging with the family on weekends. I fall victim to the "you've been pushing too hard; relax" line of thinking.
Sdbai3, Chinese is absolute crack to me. I have to avoid it, or it's like starting all over again in terms of cravings.
PilarDLS, I like that you own it. "Drinking is my way to get into 'what the hell' mode." Next time I crack a beer, I have to be conscious of the old traitor brain using alcohol like a sick note excuse.
Izzypup68, you nail it. Drinking makes the traitor brain's voice more seductive.
Frosty, as always, you make a lot of sense, and you put it in such clear, logical terms. When I'm on point, which is a good deal of the time, I embrace your mentality of "From the moment I wake up to the time I finally go to bed, the decisions I make need to align with my goals to drop the weight." It's smart, simple, effective, and real. No BS, no spin, nothing. And considering how difficult it is to operate this way in our modern world, why should I slide from time to time, undoing the hard work? Why stick to my guns for two weeks, slide for a weekend, and drop back, negating the two "good" weeks and maybe even another week or two beyond that? Sometimes people think that a disciplined lifestyle is crazy, but this other thing, working hard then sabotaging myself... that's CRAZY.
Thanks!
28 Jul 15 by member: Lokidixon
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